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| The Role of Human Intelligence in Spygate- Part 1 |
| 2020-09-19 |
| [RedState] HUMINT is spyspeak for "human intelligence," or obtaining information from human sources. For the CIA, it is the cultivation of human sources in the higher echelons of a targeted government or military. Intelligence agents are always on the lookout for human sources; it is called "talent spotting." Then they are screened and vetted once identified. Part of that process depends on if the person can provide the required information in the first place, what motivates them (sex?, money?, fame? ideology?, prestige?), their habits so they know how to avoid detection, and most important, their utility. In law enforcement, these people are called Confidential Human Sources, or CHS for short. In this saga, those identified as a CHS are more like covert informants, in one respect, and possibly like agent provocateurs in other respects. We know the names of at least two of them- Stefan Halper and Joseph Mifsud- and the given name of a third, Azra Turk. Turk was used in a classic intelligence ploy known as the "honey pot." In this method, usually a pretty, young woman is dangled in front of the target so that they can later extract information from the target through "pillow talk," or sometimes by using a sexual liaison for blackmail. We know the targets of these plots within the Trump campaign: co-chairman of the national campaign, Sam Clovis, low-level foreign policy advisers George Papadopolous and Carter Page, and Michael Flynn, a key national security adviser to Trump. At some point, we know the IC and FBI/DOJ, for whatever reason, began to suspect that the Trump campaign was working with Russian operatives for whatever reason. We know at this point that there was tremendous electronic intelligence being gathered through contractor access to the NSA databases using "about query" searches and that there was an unusually high incidence from December 2015 to May 2016. We know that NSA director Mike Rogers cut off contractor access to the query database. It would make logical sense to use human intelligence sources to fill the gap so that a case could be built which can then be taken to the FISA court in order to legally continue what someone or someones initially did illegally. The official FBI investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia did not begin until July 31, 2016 with the official explanation being the Downer conversation with Papadopolous in a London bar. But there likely was electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign prior to this and that it was likely being done by private contractors accessing the NSA database. Officials within the IC and FBI/DOJ surely knew that Mike Rogers was poking his nose into these unauthorized queries sometime in 2015 which explains a suspicious text between Lisa Page and Peter Strozk in December 2015. In that text, Strozk asks, "You get all our oconus lures approved?" She responds "no" because there is a bigger policy issue and she would explain later. What does "oconus" mean? "Oconus" is short for "outside the continental United States." A "lure" is a common term in counterintelligence parlance referring to the use of people as bait to snag a potential "double agent," whether they know it or not. If this refers to the Trump campaign, then this destroys the official narrative for two reasons. First, it pushes the timeline back to at least December 28, 2015- the date of the text. Second, a counterintelligence lure is strictly an offensive weapon in the arsenal meaning that someone is intentionally inserted into something without any predicate for doing so other than the simple fact of doing so, or to "frame" someone. This brings us to our first CHS- Stefan Halper. Reporting by the New York Times and Washington Post never mentioned him by name, but it did not take much work to figure out who he was by the descriptions given in their articles. He is an interesting subject with one foot in Republican political circles and another in the IC. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Officials within the IC and FBI/DOJ surely knew that Mike Rogers was poking his nose into these unauthorized queries sometime in 2015 which explains a suspicious text between Lisa Page and Peter Strozk in December 2015. Might also explain Congressman Rogers sudden departure, not only as head of the HPSCI, but the United States Congress as well. The pieces, they will eventually start falling together. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-19 06:36 |