EMAILS Reveal Obama Admin’s Push To Create Russia Scandal Hours Before Trump’s Inauguration


Newly released emails show the Obama administration scrambling to create the “Russia” scandal within 24 hours of President Donald Trump taking the oath of office in January 2017. The desperation of the Obama administration is evident in the emails, in which the Obama team tries to involve Democratic senators Warner and Cardin and Republican senator Corker in the plot.
Close observers know that the Operation Crossfire Hurricane strategy surfaced during the 2016 presidential election and continued well into Trump’s presidency, with General Michael Flynn getting snared in a Peter Strzok/Sally Yates ambush play in the early days of the Trump White House. Now, Team Obama’s documented effort to cook up the Russia story before Trump’s inauguration emboldens a narrative already proved by text messages (presented below) involving Obama official James Clapper: the Obama people actually thought they could stop Trump from getting sworn in.
Judicial Watch, which obtained the emails in a Freedom of Information Act case, reports:
“In a Thursday, January 5, 2017, email chain then-State Department Congressional Advisor Hera Abassi indicates that then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland’s bureau was attempting to get Russian investigation related documents to the office of Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) office as quickly as possible. (In June 2016 Nuland permitted a meeting between Steele and the FBI’s legal attaché in Rome. Nuland told CBS News that the State Department knew about the Steele dossier by July 2016.)
In the email, with the subject line “For Immediate Review – Call Sheet for S Call with Senator Warner,” Abassi writes:
“I told Cardin’s folks … that the process is long. Can we ensure that there are no holdups on our end?”
Minutes later, Abassi confirms that Nuland was fully aware of the information that the State Department was providing to members of Congress alleging Russia interference information:
“This is definitely on EUR A/S radar!”
- Leaving no doubt that the State Department officials knew they were transmitting classified information, in a Wednesday, January 18, 2017, email with the subject line “Cables/M,” Former Foreign Service Officer Kerem Bilge writes to State Department Congressional advisor Hilary Johnson and others: “Highest class is SECRET/NOFORN.”
Johnson replies:
“FYI – so we can keep the SECRET/NOFORN header, and should declassify it 25 years from tomorrow.
“I forwarded the fully cleared version to the two of you on the high side [Editor’s Note: “high side” is State Department term for high security classification system], but let me know if there’s anything else you need from me on this.
“Note: we’ll need to make sure there is someone in Senate security tomorrow who can accept these.”
- On Wednesday, January 18, 2017, Johnson confirms that classified documents were sent to Senator Corker in addition to Senator Cardin. “Flagging that I sent you a high side request for clearance of the draft transmittal letter to send documents to Senators Corker and Cardin.”
Additionally, involved in providing classified information to members of the Senate was Naz Durakoglu, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. In an email dated Thursday, January 19, 2017, with the subject line “Signed, sealed, delivered” Durakoglu apparently confirms that Obama State Department officials were eager to provide the classified material before Trump was sworn into office: “ We made the deadline!” Durakoglu states [Emphasis added] “Thank you everyone for what was truly a Department-wide effort!”
President Trump was inaugurated less than 24 hours later.
- In a Wednesday, January 18, 2017 email , Naz Durakoglu signed off on the document transmittal letter on behalf of her bureau. This letter accompanied “the documents to Senator Corker and Cardin”
- In a Thursday, January 19, 2017 email , Durakoglu appears to confirm that she is who carried the documents from the State Department to Capitol Hill. She states, “I will be carrying over the cables to the Hill.'”
Judicial Watch passage ends
Multiple elements of the Obama machine were working overtime on their Russian cooking in the immediate lead-up to President Donald Trump’s historic inauguration.
WASHINGTON — Obama administration Director of National Intelligence James Clapper held a meeting in his last days in office to discuss the idea of going to a Supreme Court justice to block President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to a high-level member of the intelligence community who spoke with a Big League Politics source.
Clapper discussed blocking the inauguration on the grounds that Trump was an illegitimate president due to alleged Russian interference in the election, according to the sources. It is not known whether Clapper ever actually convened a meeting with a Supreme Court justice to discuss the Russia case, or whether he simply discussed the idea of doing so. By the time Trump entered office on January 20, the Russia narrative was already underway.
A high-level member of the intelligence community who witnessed the meeting said that Clapper discussed going to one of three female Supreme Court justices to make the case that alleged Russian interference could invalidate Trump’s claim to the presidency.
Here’s a text the witness sent to BLP’s source:
Here’s another text the witness sent to BLP’s source around the same time, describing how the Deep State was making General Michael Flynn a “rising target” for his alleged involvement with Russians, and stating that House Speaker Paul Ryan is a “wild card” in the Deep State wars.
Big League Politics recently reported on an audiotape in which Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh admitted that slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source for Wikileaks’ release of DNC emails in 2016, not a Russian hack. Hersh also said that Clapper and Obama administration CIA director John Brennan helped to create the Russia narrative against Trump.
As Big League Politics reported: real estate mogul Timothy Blixseth claims that he saw records from CIA and NSA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery proving that Clapper and Obama CIA director John Brennan oversaw repeated spying on the phone calls of President Donald Trump and millions of other private American citizens, including Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Fired former FBI director James Comey received evidence from the whistleblower’s lawyer but sat on it.
In an audiotaped interview — conducted before Trump ever ran for president — Blixseth spoke to former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and detective Mike Zullo. The audio was released in connection with a civil contempt case that the Department of Justice filed against Arpaio. The audio of this conversation appears to only be preserved in one location on the Internet, on a whistleblower Soundcloud page.
“This guy showed me 900 million phone calls. And I see myself in there. I see people I know. I see Donald Trump in there a zillion times, and Bloomberg is in there,” Blixseth said on the tape, referring to information that Montgomery allegedly showed him.
“He’s a very genius computer guy,” Blixseth said of Montgomery. “What they did is, they were actually working for the CIA. And they mask it as — I’m sure you’ll remember this — the contracts with the CIA, of which I had many copies, said that they were decoding Al-Jazeera television, said that there was broadcast embedded, remember that? Owned by Gore? Al Gore’s got part of it now. But it was all bullshit. That was bullshit. That was a front by the CIA. And this guy [Montgomery] worked for Brennan and Clapper. Those were the two guys running it,” Timothy Blixseth told Arpaio and Zullo on the tape.
“He started out in 2004 with another partner in Reno, Nevada, called eTreppid. They collected about $40 million from the CIA. Top security clearance. All kinds of letters…In 2006 they started a new company that [my ex-wife] owns, and they started doing the same business for the government. What it really turns out they were doing is they were hacking into all of America.
Big League Politics called the listed number for eTreppid Technologies, but we were told that Montgomery no longer works there. “That company closed down years ago, sir,” a representative said of eTreppid Technologies. When asked what the company is called now, the representative said, “I’m sorry, I can’t discuss any more with you.”
Blixseth claimed in his conversation with Zullo and Arpaio that Brennan and Clapper were running the operation.
“Everything they said they didn’t do, that Brennan said recently, mainly Clapper. It’s all bullshit. And I’ve got it right here,” Blixseth said.
On the explosive tapes , Blixseth walks Arpaio and Zullo through the details of the program on a computer screen. At one point, the three begin pulling up specific names of targeted individuals.
“You know who that guy is? That’s the head of the FISA court they hacked into, Reggie Walton,” Blixseth tells the investigators.
“John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, was hacked,” Blixseth tells Arpaio and Zullo.
Insiders have always been skeptical of Roberts’ motives for siding with President Obama on the 2012 Obamacare case. While there’s still no available evidence that Roberts was blackmailed, the allegation that he was “hacked” by Obama officials provides some more context into the justice’s controversial career.
“By the time Trump entered office on January 20, the Russia narrative was already underway.
A high-level member of the intelligence community who witnessed the meeting said that Clapper discussed going to one of three female Supreme Court justices to make the case that alleged Russian interference could invalidate Trump’s claim to the presidency.
Here’s a text the witness sent to BLP’s source:
Here’s another text the witness sent to BLP’s source around the same time, describing how the Deep State was making General Michael Flynn a “rising target” for his alleged involvement with Russians, and stating that House Speaker Paul Ryan is a “wild card” in the Deep State wars.
Big League Politics recently reported on an audiotape in which Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh admitted that slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source for Wikileaks’ release of DNC emails in 2016, not a Russian hack. Hersh also said that Clapper and Obama administration CIA director John Brennan helped to create the Russia narrative against Trump.
As Big League Politics reported : real estate mogul Timothy Blixseth claims that he saw records from CIA and NSA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery proving that Clapper and Obama CIA director John Brennan oversaw repeated spying on the phone calls of President Donald Trump and millions of other private American citizens, including Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Fired former FBI director James Comey received evidence from the whistleblower’s lawyer but sat on it.
In an audiotaped interview — conducted before Trump ever ran for president — Blixseth spoke to former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and detective Mike Zullo. The audio was released in connection with a civil contempt case that the Department of Justice filed against Arpaio. The audio of this conversation appears to only be preserved in one location on the Internet, on a whistleblower Soundcloud page.
“This guy showed me 900 million phone calls. And I see myself in there. I see people I know. I see Donald Trump in there a zillion times, and Bloomberg is in there,” Blixseth said on the tape, referring to information that Montgomery allegedly showed him.”
Documentation of the vast deep state conspiracy against Trump and his administration set in place by the outgoing Obama regime. All this so callled collusion with Russia that happened did so because of Clinton and Obama.
This so called article is ''FAKE NEWS''....
Thankfully Mueller knows exactly what type of morons he's dealing with and at the end he'll have corroborating and indisputable proof. He's feared by the trumpsters because he represents something for which they have no defense against, a republican with ethics willing to put his country before anything else.
The political left does wish that.
You mean like the other "republican", Comey, who keeps saying "the democrats need to win". I wonder why they keep praying for the dems to win?
Judicial Watch cannot be used on NT as a source, as it is listed by MBFC as a conspiracy site.
Many, most, of the names mentioned in this article as having uncovered a plot to get Trump are names associated with far right conspiracy nuts and hoaxers, including Arpaio, Jerome Corsi, and Alex Jones.
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This person is a major source for the allegations made in the article.
I looked at Timothy Blixseth's website. It hasn't been updated in six years. Blixseth is a disgraced real estate developer who was forced to declare bankruptcy after he committed fraud.
This article is a joke. The second half of it refers to a conspiracy hoax story from years ago. It's not even new.
I didn’t use it though I’m a member of or donor to it and several other such sites like Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Research Council, etc. Fortunately there are plenty of conservative publications that will prominently mention Judicial Watch and the others.
WHO SAYS SO?
Judicial Watch should be audited to reveal its financial base. Judicial Watch is a subversive anti-American, anti-democratic propaganda mechanism. Its goal is to subvert justice, freedom and American promise.
Why do you say that? Is it because you disagree with them? I have seen nothing they have done that is subversive, since they work within the law to expose what they believe to be corrupt behavior and most of the time, I actually agree that what they get from their FOIA requests tend to show corruption and malfeasance by our elected and unelected government employees.
Lol, It's goal is transparency. It is the very reason Hillary had everything on a private server
No. Because its financial base is not known.
emails------------L O friggen L
Judicial watch is a great American organization doing great work for transparency and against corruption in government. Considering the fraudulent biased bigotry of those who have that testing to Judicial Watch, I view that rating as a badge of honor.
Good question. There is no reasonable rational answer to it.
Good! You going to Mexico to search for the ISIS members camped out there?
John,
Judicial Watch doesn't publish news. It files FOIAs and publishes what it finds out through them. In other words, they are not a news site but a public service site that has a Conservative viewpoint. In this case, Judical Watch should be able to be used as a source as they are a first party in legal actions and as such is able to release the information that they get. If we use the same standard for Judicial Watch as other groups, then the DNC cannot be used as a source for anything, even if what they are publishing is the actual story. I linked the below article directly from Judicial Watch, so people can read the first party report of their findings.
No? They were debunked twice publishing the news that ISIS camps were just over the Mexican border.
Conservatives who absorb right wing media are the most deluded people on earth.
Open your eyes and do some objective research.
Objective research like just blindly listening to the Mainstream Media whom are almost all Liberal Democrats and whenever a Conservative appears outnumbers that Conservative 3 to 1 at least and shouts that person down every time they try to make a point? Also, why should we pay attention to people whom love to BE the story, like Jim Acosta? A good reporter reports the story and does not become the story.
The seeded story recounts the opinions of nutjobs and grifters like Jerome Corsi , Arpaio , and Alex Jones. These are fraudulent people Tom.
This story is not only a hoax, it is years old. What is it doing in an article about the Trump transition?
Timothy Blixseth is a disgraced business fraud. These people try to make money off the gullibility of the conservative reading audience.
What does the Big League Politics article's extended reporting have to do with my link from Judicial Watch? Read the link before quoting from the seeded article as they are DIFFERENT.
And yet not a peep about the corruption in Trump's whitehouse.
That's not a public service.
It was the White House before Trump that was as corrupt as sin itself and was whitewashed by the lamestream media.
Anyone from that whitehouse arrested? Confessed to corruption? Subpeonas? Convictions?
Anyone from this whitehouse?
It's hard to arrest someone given immunity for anything they possibly did before they were even asked a single question about anything under investigation. Do you remember how things worked out when Oliver North was given immunity before testifying about Iran-Contra? The Comey FBI/Lynch DOJ seemed to forgotten that lesson when they gave just about everyone involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation immunity before they were being questioned, or did your forget that little factoid?
Uh huh...how many immunities were given to the Clinton crew?
You can dream that's what happened, facts say otherwise.
You're right. They don't publish news, they publish spin and some of it is in their 'Newsletter' The Verdict. Their 'reports' read like transcripts from FOX.
They jump to conclusions based on deep seeded bias and spew innuendo without foundation.
Your facts are sorely lacking at least 3 of the Clinton crew were given immunity.
Oh, if you want to go 1 step further for Comey's incompetence- the FBI didn't record the Clinton interview; nor did they make her swear under oath.
Want to place bet Mueller has recorded every last damn interview with Trump witnesses; and that they were sworn under oath? Of course Comey had a predetermined outcome he had to obtain.
If Comey had taken the same path as the Mueller investigation; then there is a good chance that Hillary never would have made to the general elections. Maybe the Dems could have come up with a candidate that knew how the electoral college works, and we wouldn't have the daily dose of TDS to put up with.
Wow! A whole 3 people? Really?
Were there only 3 people questioned? Because this is the comment I responded to.
Thanks for confirming his comment was bullshit.
Big League Politics is the link for the seed
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from MBFC
Why would anyone seed an article from a source that has been found to have promoted political conspiracy theories? Do they just want to look stupid?
Because it’s on the approved list according to the dictates of this place. I use it because I like it. It’s one of my new favorite sites. “While there are nice examples of well sourced journalism on this website”
Funny that you didn't say, "I use it because it's factual". Oh wait, that's because it isn't.
Actually, it is.
But that’s different!
That's a conspiracy theory
Exactly. Bigly so!
Create Russian conspiracy before the Trump's inauguration?
Nah. Trump's conspiracies with the Russians---and others---began decades ago when he ( the Trump ) blew through his father's money, was declined credit lines through US Banks and was forced to seek nefarious money lenders in order to keep up the Trumpian façade.
[Deleted] This is total horseshit.
Just for shits and giggles, since when is providing Senators with documents, that they requested in writing, a conspiracy?
BTFW, some of the Senators that received the documents are Republicans.
“In a Thursday, January 5, 2017, email chain then-State Department Congressional Advisor Hera Abassi indicates that then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland’s bureau was attempting to get Russian investigation related documents to the office of Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) office as quickly as possible. (In June 2016 Nuland permitted a meeting between Steele and the FBI’s legal attaché in Rome. Nuland told CBS News that the State Department knew about the Steele dossier by July 2016.)
In the email, with the subject line “For Immediate Review – Call Sheet for S Call with Senator Warner,” Abassi writes:
“I told Cardin’s folks … that the process is long. Can we ensure that there are no holdups on our end?”
Minutes later, Abassi confirms that Nuland was fully aware of the information that the State Department was providing to members of Congress alleging Russia interference information:
“This is definitely on EUR A/S radar!”
Johnson replies:
“FYI – so we can keep the SECRET/NOFORN header, and should declassify it 25 years from tomorrow.
“I forwarded the fully cleared version to the two of you on the high side [Editor’s Note: “high side” is State Department term for high security classification system], but let me know if there’s anything else you need from me on this.
“Note: we’ll need to make sure there is someone in Senate security tomorrow who can accept these.”
Additionally, involved in providing classified information to members of the Senate was Naz Durakoglu, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. In an emaildated Thursday, January 19, 2017, with the subject line “Signed, sealed, delivered” Durakoglu apparently confirms that Obama State Department officials were eager to provide the classified material before Trump was sworn into office: “We made the deadline!” Durakoglu states [Emphasis added] “Thank you everyone for what was truly a Department-wide effort!”
President Trump was inaugurated less than 24 hours later.
I already read that. It doesn't answer my question.
It was a conspiracy against Trump by the deep state in response to his surprising to them, election victory. Sadly, there are some establishment Republicans who are part of the deep state.
You are NOT answering my question Xx.
The Senate is a co-equal branch of government. They have a RIGHT to information. They requested, in documentation, the information from the Administration, and the emails show what they did to fulfill their request. Nothing nefarious about it.
They were requesting information that the administration had no legal right to pursue or have as the administration was illegally unmasking Americans and helping in the creation of an unsubstantiated dossier.
WTF does the administration have to do with it Xx? The request was from SENATORS who have the mandate of oversight.
The ACTUAL story origin …
And already debunked …
" …with General Michael Flynn getting snared in a Peter Strzok/Sally Yates ambush play in the early days of the Trump White House … "
And FLYNN WAS FIRED BY OBAMA …
He was reportedly effectively forced out of the DIA after clashing with superiors over his allegedly chaotic management style and vision for the agency. [35] [36] [37] [38] In a private e-mail that was leaked online, Colin Powell said that he had heard in the DIA (apparently from later DIA director Vincent R. Stewart ) that Flynn was fired because he was "abusive with staff, didn't listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc." [37] According to The New York Times , Flynn exhibited a loose relationship with the truth, leading his subordinates to refer to Flynn's repeated dubious assertions as "Flynn facts". [39]
And allegedly, "Judicial Watch, which obtained the emails in a Freedom of Information Act case, reports:"
Some Judicial Watch's history … FALSE CLAIMS its specialty.