{"id":2121,"date":"2018-06-08T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:11:28","slug":"alert-fbi-mole-was-placed-in-trump-campaign-identity-rocks-dc-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/alert-fbi-mole-was-placed-in-trump-campaign-identity-rocks-dc-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT FBI Mole Was Placed In Trump Campaign \u2013 Identity Rocks DC &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zpN_nwuc5Gw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"cb-featured-image\" class=\"cb-fis cb-fis-block-standard\">\n<div class=\"cb-entry-header cb-meta clearfix\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title cb-entry-title cb-title\">ALERT: FBI MOLE WAS PLACED IN TRUMP CAMPAIGN \u2013 IDENTITY ROCKS DC<\/h1>\n<div class=\"cb-byline\"><span class=\"cb-date\"><time datetime=\"2018-05-12\">MAY 12, 2018<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"cb-entry-content clearfix\">It\u2019s no secret that the FBI kept a close eye on Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, but new reports indicate that the bureau may have gone far deeper in monitoring the current president than any of us ever thought.<\/p>\n<div id=\"conse-1459272224\" class=\"conse-in-article-one\">\n<div id=\"conse-79425471\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/about-that-fbi-source-1525992611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0piece called\u00a0\u201cAbout That FBI \u2018Source,\u2019\u201d reporter Kimberley Strassel wrote that\u00a0information on an FBI source that the Department of Justice was just forced to reveal to the House Intelligence Committee may be evidence of an FBI mole inside the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee\u00a0members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI\u2019s investigation of the Trump campaign,\u201d Strassel wrote, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ct\/wall-street-journal-suspected-fbi-mole-planted-in-trump-campaign\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Journal<\/a>. \u201cEven without official confirmation of that source\u2019s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"conse-1953677003\" class=\"conse-in-article-two\">\n<div id=\"conse-216593876\">\n<p>She went on to point out that the\u00a0DOJ and FBI \u201coutright hid critical information from a congressional investigation.\u201d Strassel then cited\u00a0Speaker Paul Ryan\u2019s press conference after the material was released Thursday, in which he \u201cbluntly noted that Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes\u2019s request for details on this secret source was \u2018wholly appropriate,\u2019 \u2018completely within the scope\u2019 of the committee\u2019s long-running FBI investigation, and \u2018something that probably should have been answered a while ago.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTranslation: The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it,\u201d she wrote.\u00a0\u201cThe bureau already has some explaining to do. Thanks to the Washington Post\u2019s unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes\u2019s request deals with a \u2018top secret intelligence source\u2019 of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign,\u201d Strassel continued.\u00a0\u201cThis would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe I know the name of the informant, but my intelligence sources did not provide it to me and refuse to confirm it,\u201d Strassel concluded.\u00a0\u201cIt would therefore be irresponsible to publish it. But what is clear is that we\u2019ve barely scratched the surface of the FBI\u2019s 2016 behavior, and the country will never get the straight story until President Trump moves to declassify everything possible. It\u2019s time to rip off the Band-Aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s truly disturbing how little we know about the FBI\u2019s surveillance of Trump and those around him. Who do you think the informant could be? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALERT: FBI MOLE WAS PLACED IN TRUMP CAMPAIGN \u2013 IDENTITY ROCKS DC MAY 12, 2018 It\u2019s no secret that the FBI kept a close eye on Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, but new reports indicate that the bureau may have gone far deeper in monitoring the current president than any of us ever thought. In a\u00a0Wall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/alert-fbi-mole-was-placed-in-trump-campaign-identity-rocks-dc-youtube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALERT FBI Mole Was Placed In Trump Campaign \u2013 Identity Rocks DC &#8211; YouTube<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,20,21,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}