Thread by @drawandstrike

What I suspect happened: Trump & Sessions came into office already knowing about the FISA intelligence abuses in the DOJ/FBI that needed cleaning up.

Remember, Horowitz starts his review on Jan. 12th, 2017, before the inauguration.

They spent all of February and most of March getting the known Black Hats in the DOJ/FBI under surveillance.

Want to bet they picked up chatter between the Black Hats about their cool plan to drive the Trump/Russia insurance policy using the Flynn investigation?

By the time Trump and Sessions assume office on Jan. 20th, 2017, they already know Flynn is the focus of a plot by the Black Hats to make his phone calls to Russian ambassador Kislyak into a serious crime.

Remember the investigation into Michael Flynn is central to what's happening from January to May, when Comey gets fired.

Flynn was picked by the Black Hats to be the fall guy for a Trump/Russia collusion scandal they were manufacturing.

Trump and Sessions were AWARE the entire time, from January to May 2017, that Black Hats inside the DOJ/FBI were plotting to get Trump ensnared in a scandal by using Flynn to get to him.

I believe during the first 4 months Trump & Sessions were in office, they were quietly identifying who the Black Hats were, surveillance started of their communications, and watching them.

Whatever it was that Comey was doing, by May Trump had enough or had seen enough, and he fired him.

From all reports, this surprised Comey greatly, and likely tipped his hand.

Comey embarks on a pattern of leaking to the media, giving memos he'd written to a friend to leak to the NYT's. Comey claims Trump obstructed the FBI investigation into Mike Flynn by ordering him to 'back off' of Flynn because he's a 'good guy'.

Comey appears before Congress to testify, and during his testimony he demands the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Comey got his wish, and this resulted in the appointment of Robert Mueller and his investigative team, which is now in it's 8th month of investigation.

But what do we now know? The Trump dossier, published by Buzzfeed in January 2017, was fake and a political hit job paid for by the Clinton campaign & the DNC through Fusion GPS.

There was nothing whatsoever illegal about Flynn's phone calls to Kislyak.

The Flynn investigation was always a trumped up hit job by DOJ/FBI people leaking to the media - specifically David Ignatius at the Washington Post - to place Flynn under suspicion so the plotters could then go after him.

What the Congressmen who have seen the 4 page #FisaAbuseMemo say about it, is that it *proves* the Mueller investigation was started under FALSE PRETENSES.

There never WAS any evidence of Trump/Russia collusion or real Russian interference in the election. The plotters knew all along the #SteeleDossier was bogus & that Mike Flynn hadn't done anything illegal in making those phone calls.

I suspect what this memo will show in detail is that the FBI/DOJ plotters knew the truth about the #SteeleDossier all along & were deliberately lying about it to get FISA warrant/s

For 3 weeks now the plotters, using their allies at Fusion GPS to send out stories in the media - have been desperately trying to claim the #SteeleDossier was NEVER used for any FISA warrants, & instead claimed it was Papadopoulos talking to an Aussie diplomat in a bar.

1 of the Congressmen who've seen the 4 page memo bluntly stated it will destroy this new narrative the plotters and their media enablers have been trying to spin about Papadopoulos.

The fact of the matter is, there were a lot of communications intercepts of Trump campaign team/transition team members where their names were unmasked, and these comms had NOTHING to do with Russia or any foreign activity.

THAT is going to be spelled out in the memo. What's also going to be spelled out is that the people inside the DOJ/FBI doing this FISA abuse to spy on Trump's team knew all along the #SteeleDossier they were using as cover to do this was...FAKE.

Strzok and other plotters, you can bet Horowitz has been going over all their electronic comms for the past several years. Especially during the period where the plot to frame General Flynn was hatched and executed.

These people were being watched. Someone was investigating the investigators who thought they were getting ready to use Flynn to entrap Trump in an impeachment scandal.

People assume Strzok was only caught in August, when he was suddenly yanked off of Mueller's investigative team and sent to the HR dept.

Nope.

He was one of the FIRST Black Hats they knew about. They were monitoring him from January all the way to August.

That memo likely has some of the WHITE HAT intel intercepts in it, where they catch the plotters chattering to each other about their insurance policy, how it's progressing, how the game plan changed after Comey's firing, etc.

Recall the March 22nd press conference held by Devin Nunes? Somebody brought him in and SHOWED him some of this stuff. He was floored by it.

I wondered at the time, WHO showed him those intel intercepts, if they weren't willing to go public with it all and expose it RIGHT THEN?

I think I have my answer now.

"Beat The Grass To Startle The Snakes"

That Nunes press conference hit like a BOMBSHELL.

And you can bet, at that time, March 22nd and the days following, there was FLURRY OF COMMUNICATIONS ACTIVITY among the plotters as they tried to ascertain how much they'd been exposed.

Most of the suspected plotters are under surveillance by March 22nd. All their movements are being watched, recorded.

THEN NUNES GIVES THEM SOMETHING TO TALK TO EACH OTHER ABOUT.

"How much does this guy know about what we've been doing?"
"Who showed him the unmasking we did?"
"Has he seen the FISA warrant we were using?"

Nunes was a stick used to beat the grass. The startled snakes then gave themselves away even further.

Remember what the memo is: it's a collection Nunes made from the evidence that Horowitz had ALREADY assembled.

They have these people cold. There's no escape.

This whole shutdown theater the Democrats are doing right now is a desperate ploy to pull attention away from the fact top people in the DOJ/FBI, past and present, committed very serious crimes.

When that memo comes out, and it will, we'll see what the Democrats were so terrified of the public learning about.

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