How The Code Name ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Undermines The FBI’s Russia Story By Lee Smith 25 May 2018 The New York Times’ 4,000-word report last week on the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign’s possible ties to Russia revealed for the first time that the investigation was called “Crossfire Hurricane.” ~Snip~ The answer may be found in the 1986 Penny Marshall film named after the song, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” In the Cold War-era comedy, a quirky bank officer played by Whoopi Goldberg comes to the aid of Jonathan Pryce, who plays a British spy being chased by the KGB. The code name “Crossfire Hurricane” is therefore most likely a reference to the former British spy whose allegedly Russian-sourced reports on the Trump team’s alleged ties to Russia were used as evidence to secure a Foreign Intelligence Service Act secret warrant on Trump adviser Carter Page in October 2016: ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele. ~Snip ~ In December, The New York Times published a “scoop” on the new origin story. In the revised narrative, the probe didn’t start with the Steele dossier at all. Rather, it began with an April 2016 meeting between Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and a Maltese professor named Joseph Mifsud. The professor informed him that “he had just learned from high-level Russian officials in Moscow that the Russians had ‘dirt’ on Mrs. Clinton in the form of ‘thousands of emails.’” ~Snip~ The code name “Crossfire Hurricane” is further evidence that the FBI’s cover story is absurd. A reference to a movie about a British spy evading Russian spies behind enemy lines suggests the Steele dossier was always the core of the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign. ~Snip~ What we know already is that the Times reporters did not ask them, because they do not bother to indicate that the officials interviewed for the story had declined to answer. That they did not ask these questions is evidence the Times is no longer a newspaper that sees its job as reporting the truth or holding high government officials responsible for their crimes. Source: http//thefederalist.com/2018/05/25/code-name-crossfire-hurricane-evidence-fbis-russia-cover-story/ ~~~~~~ In less than a week, the nefarious Progressive Marxist Democrats have gone from “Trump’s a liar for saying Obama spied on him” to “Yes we spied on Trump but only to protect him, to “Trump’s a liar for saying Obama spied on him”. I'm not sure there is any way this can play out the way the former administration is trying to portray. The excuse that anyone who 'MIGHT' be connected to an outside actor like Russia can be used to spy on everyone. The former leaders of the FBI appear to have used any excuse they could find to justify manufacturing further excuses to spy on any political opponent they focused upon. They also further appear to have manufactured excuses, with significant effort, to avoid executing appropriate due process to investigate 'favored' persons such as the former Sec. of State and others. Meanwhile they ALSO apparently abdicated their duties to keep the United States safe and didn't do their real jobs. It will take quite some time to assess and repair the problems caused by senior leaders in the previous administration simply not doing their jobs.
