According to a case laid out before congress by Clarice Feldman, Stefan Halper was placed inside of the Trump campaign to spy.
"... there was collusion between certain members of the U.S. and British intelligence communities to spy on the Trump campaign. This may explain, in large part, the reluctance of the Department of Justice to reveal what it knows publicly. After all – with rare exceptions – the two countries' intelligence services have long had important information gathering and sharing agreements, and exposure of this may harm the traditional reciprocal relationship.
And that the likely suspect is shadowy Stefan Halper...
... someone who worked with U.S. and apparently British intelligence, with a record of trying to spy on lowly campaign workers and even trick them into compromising actions, a U.S. citizen with strong ties to British intelligence who lived in the U.K.: Stefan Halper, a former advisor to three Republican presidents (and therefore, had perfect cover), a Cambridge Fellow, who, as we detail, interacted with various Trump campaign workers ostensibly to assist them. On November 3, 2016, he publicly stated that Hillary would be the best option for U.S.-U.K. relations. It's reasonable to assume, therefore, that the "help" was not for the Trump campaign, but for Hillary.
"I believe [Hillary] Clinton would be best for US-UK relations and for relations with the European Union. Clinton is well-known, deeply experienced and predictable. US-UK relations will remain steady regardless of the winner although Clinton will be less disruptive over time," Halper, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs and senior adviser to the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice, said.
Here's how Halper "helped" the Trump campaign from publicly available information:
On July 16, 2016 he invited Carter Page to a Cambridge symposium
On September 11, 2016 he met with a senior Trump official
On September 13-16 he met with Papadopoulos.
Halper is a close associate of former MI6 head Richard Dearlove, who in a recent video interview, cagily refused to acknowledge the veracity of the Steele dossier.
It was previously reported that Halper had conducted a data-gathering operation to collect inside information on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy during the 1980 campaign, a charge he strongly denied. But if that charge were true, he certainly had experience in such things.
If Halper was not a person we'd consider a mole in the campaign, as he never was actually part of the campaign team – just someone trying to fish for dirt (or lure people like Page and Papadopoulos into some compromising acts) – why the weasel description in the report Nunes is examining?" Clarice Feldman
On July 31st, 2016 [as] the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign. They did not inform congress until March 2017. •At the beginning of August 1-3 2016 FBI Agent Peter Strzok traveled to London, England for interviews with UK intelligence officials. (Remember Peter Strzok who has become infamous because of text messages to his girlfriend plotting against Trump.)
It is likely at this point that Peter Strzok set plans into motion to ensnare an unwitting dupe possibly by enlisting help from some friends within British Intelligence. After Strzok returned to the US he texted this to his girlfriend.
On August 15th, 2016 Peter Strzok sent this text to DOJ Lawyer Lisa Page describing the "insurance policy", needed in case Hillary Clinton were to lose the election.
"Two months before the 2016 election, George Papadopoulos received a strange request for a meeting in London, one of several the young Trump adviser would be offered – and he would accept – during the presidential campaign.
The meeting request, which has not been reported until now, came from Stefan Halper, a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and its British counterpart, MI6.
Halper's September 2016 outreach to Papadopoulos wasn't his only contact with Trump campaign members. The 73-year-old professor, a veteran of three Republican administrations, met with two other campaign advisers, The Daily Caller News Foundation learned.
Papadopoulos now questions Halper's motivation for contacting him, according to a source familiar with Papadopoulos's thinking. That's not just because of the randomness of the initial inquiry but because of questions Halper is said to have asked during their face-to-face meetings in London.
According to a source with knowledge of the meeting, Halper asked Papadopoulos: "George, you know about hacking the emails from Russia, right?"
Papadopoulos told Halper he didn't know anything about emails or Russian hacking, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. The professor did not follow up on the line of inquiry.
Halper first contacted Papadopoulos by email. In a Sept. 2, 2016, message sent to Papadopoulos's personal email account, he offered the Trump aide $3,000 to write a policy paper on issues related to Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and the Leviathan natural gas field. Halper also offered to pay for Papadopoulos's flight and a three-night stay in London." Chuck Ross - Daily Caller News Foundation
During a trip to Italy Papadopolous met Joseph Mifsud, a professor, Director of the London Academy of Diplomacy, with contacts in British Intelligence. Mifsud tells Papadopolous he heard that the Russians had thousands of Hillary's emails. At this point Papadopolous was unaware that he was falling victim to a classic con. Watch the movie Now You See Me for an example of how suggestion works. Basically you plant an idea in someone's head then you reinforce it over and over with more subtle suggestions. Then when you are ready to use that power of suggestion the dupe actually believes it was their own idea. We have no way of knowing how many of these suggestion drops were given to Papadopoulos.
A few days later Papadopoulos gets invited to an exclusive club, Kensington Wine Rooms, to meet with Alexander Downer. Downer is the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs, which in the UK is a big deal. Most people in the US have no idea who he is, but over there he is a super star. In the US it would be the equivalent of meeting the Governor or your favorite A-list celebrity.
To say that it is suspicious for an A=lister like Downer to suddenly take an interest in Papadopoulos is an understatement. But when you understand that this is the plan it makes sense. They have Papadopoulos out of his element. They get him to write this paper about the Leviathan natural gas field and give a big speech on it. This young man is thinking that all of his dreams are coming true. Then they get a celebrity to take him out and get him drunk. The guy wants to impress the celebrity so he tells him the first thing that pops in his head. He tells him that Russia has Hillary's emails.
Alexander Downer then is able to report that a member of Trump's campaign told him that Russia has Hillary's emails. The trap has been sprung, and the rest is history.
Despite all of the deviousness and obvious entrapment done against an opposition party to obviously sabotage an election and to hamper the productivity of the elected president we find Chuck Schumer defending these illegal activities.
We need to send Chuck a message. Elect someone else when his term comes up.
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