Leonard Bernardo, a senior vice president in George Soros' communist subversion organization "The Open Society Foundation," wrote to Hillary Clinton's foreign policy advisor to tell them that the Russiagate Op would "distract from her missing emails" scandal and also that the FBI would "pour more oil on the fire" to boost the op.
Newly-declassified so-called Clinton Plan intelligence included intercepted communications from a George Soros ally which suggested that Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign against Donald Trump was plotting a "long-term affair to demonize" Trump by linking him to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and that the Clinton campaign expected that "the FBI will put more oil into the fire."
The revelations, including intercepted purported communications from Leonard Benardo, a top official at George Soros's Open Society Foundations, and communications by Clinton foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith, provide new insight into information that the U.S. intelligence community received in July 2016 -- just before the FBI launched its politicized Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The bombshell allegations about a plot to falsely link Trump to Putin in an effort to distract from Clinton's classified emails scandal are found within a formerly classified but now largely-unredacted appendix from special counsel John Durham's 2023 report on the origins and conduct of the Russiagate investigation.
The intelligence received by the U.S. intelligence community, including the FBI, included information and analysis from purported emails from Benardo which detailed an alleged plot by Smith and others, with the approval of Clinton herself.
"During the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated...technical structures... in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications," the classified annex said. "The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid.... Julie [Campaign Advisor] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire."
The purported emails added: "HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] approved [Campaign adviser Julie's] idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing emails."
"The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue... In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media, and GRU [Russia's Main Intelligence Directive] will hopefully carry on to give more facts," the alleged emails from Benardo said.
Durham said there is evidence to believe the Clinton Plan intelligence was authentic and that the Clinton campaign did carry out such a dirty trick.
"The office's review of certain communications involving Smith provided possible additional support ... to the notion that the Clinton campaign was engaged in an effort or plan in late July 2016 to encourage scrutiny of Trump's purported ties to Russia, and that the [Clinton] campaign might have wanted or expected the FBI or other agencies to aid that effort ('put more oil into the fire') by commencing a formal investigation of the DNC hack," Durham's classified annex stated.
The Durham classified annex also assessed that "it is a logical deduction [REDACTED] [Julianne] Smith was, at minimum, playing a role in the Clinton campaign's efforts to tie Trump to Russia" and that the communications reviewed by the special counsel "certainly lends at least some credence that such a plan existed."
And that's not all.
Margot Cleveland:
EXCLUSIVE: Clapper Crew Threatened Whistleblower Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated Intel Assessment
'You need to TRUST ME on this,' Clapper's crony told the analyst, saying he 'would need to demonstrate [his] ability to "outgrow"' the refusal to sign off on assessments he did not concur with.
A crony of then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, notes obtained exclusively by The Federalist show.
The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with the then-Director James Clapper, according to sources familiar with the document.
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According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023 -- more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, The Federalist's source explained, occurred because the analyst's efforts to share his concerns, first with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC), and then later with Special Counsel John Durham and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, proved unsuccessful. Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections.
Those notes capture the analyst claiming in early January that his supervisor told him, "There is reporting you are not allowed to see," adding that "if you saw it, you would agree" with the ICA. After noting he concurred "with varying confidence with most of the 2017 ICA's Key Judgements," the analyst explained that he "would need to review any reporting myself in order to consider it."
"You need to TRUST ME on this," Clapper's crony countered, stating to the analyst he "would need to demonstrate [his] ability to 'outgrow'" his refusal to sign off on assessments he did not share, in order to be recommended for a promotion. The analyst remained firm, according to the notes, which led his exacerbated superior to reply, "I need you to say you agree with these judgements, so that DIA will go along with them!"
The DIA is the Department of Defense's "Defense Intelligence Agency," and the notes explain that ODNI sought "to bring DIA on board as an additional IC Agency signing on to the 2017 ICA." The ODNI whistleblower then relayed that the conversation turned to the "DIA's supposed trust in me, and the necessity of me proving my 'corporate IC officer' bona-fides by doing what it took to bring DIA on board ..." The analyst refused to alter his assessment, and the DIA did not join the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency (NSA) in signing off on the final non-compartmented versions of the ICA.
"I remember this conversation very clearly," the analyst explained, stressing "it was a difficult situation and I listened, and chose my responses, with care." "I was aware that I was defying the [National Intelligence Officer's] direction to me (to misrepresent my views to DIA) based on a conscious decision to adhere to IC standards, tradecraft, and ethics," the notes concluded.
As mentioned in the sidebar, former CIA case officer (and an important figure in the capture of high-value Al Qaeda terrorists like al-Zawahri) John Kirikou says that CIA agents are legally obligated to go to the Inspector General if other agents are politicizing intelligence. This whistleblower did go to the IG -- and was apparently ignored.
This may be why so few other agents blew the whistle -- because they knew that the agency was so corrupted that there were literally no uncorrupted high-ranking officials or Inspector Generals they could turn to without becoming targets of the Russiagate coupists themselves.