GO: It is. Barr cockblocked the Mueller Report and stymied the investigations. He’s a traitor of the highest order. It’s impossible to overstate how much damage that deranged fukk has done to our country.
LB: And if you have knowledge of Trump’s CI files, isn’t corruption of this magnitude a “break the glass” moment? What good is all the secrecy around donald’s history as a CI doing for the DOJ now? What is the secrecy actually protecting, if maintaining it means the rule of law itself is being destroyed?
Put a pin in that line of thought too. We’re gonna connect it once we finally talk about donald’s other “CI” file. The Counter-Intelligence one.
Laundering money for Mogilevich (and others) led to donald being owned property of a hostile foreign power(s). There is no realm where the NSA and CIA don’t know this. And since the FBI is in the intelligence game too (a post-9/11 shift), and donald was their guy to begin with, there is no realm where donald doesn’t have a counter-intelligence file a mile long. We’ve covered this in a prior piece.
When dealing with known money launderers for transnational organized crime—especially businessmen who launder for the Mogilevich syndicate—a counter-intelligence file is immediate. And likely, very fat. And if that launderer is also a Confidential Informant? The two CI files overlap completely.
In Russia (and other terror-funding states), the mafia and intelligence services are one and the same. Now, some of our intel folks will say that the mafia is a branch of Russian intelligence—as if there is an operation above the mob that is run by officers who aren’t mobsters. No. fukk that. Putin was installed by the mafia. He’s their guy. He admits to doing “illegal intelligence” (aka, mob shyt), when
he was a KGB agent in Dresden.
He’s long been connected to Mogilevich (by valid sources), and was likely placed by Mogilevich at the head of the FSB. Mogilevich absolutely helped elevate Putin to President. And then, Putin became a boss. His mafia and his intelligence services are a single operation. No fukking difference.
GO: You say tomato, I say whatever the Russian word for “tomato” is.
LB: помидор.
donald is owned.
GO: A friend of mine asked me over the weekend—via Zoom, of course—why we bother with Russia, when it has a smaller GDP than the state of Texas. And I said, You’re not considering the profits generated by transnational organized crime. That’s a huge number, unknowably vast, and that’s what we’re up against. It’s very, very powerful.
LB:
If you’re laundering money for the Russian mafia—for Mogilevich—then you’re the property of the Kremlin. Full stop. I don’t care when it happened, or if Mogilevich is still as powerful as he once was. Once the Kremlin owns you, they own you for life. Even if our guys are running you, too. Even if our guys ran you first. You belong to the Kremlin. No matter how small your balls are, Putin has them in his pocket. And there’s no way that you don’t know he owns you. No fukking way. If Helsinki wasn’t enough to demonstrate this truth, then just stop reading.
What’s more?
There’s no way our intelligence agencies don’t know this about donald. There is no universe in which they don’t have intercepts, evidence collected by human intelligence, shared intel from our allies, and probably even donald’s own recordings and paper (just like Mr. Sater).
Still shaking your head? Let’s pose it as inquiry, to break through that dissonance:
Do you really think our intelligence agencies are so inept that they wouldn’t be monitoring a known money launderer for Mogilevich and other Kremlin-connected criminals?
Do you actually think that our intelligence agencies are such bungling fools, that they would not use a man who was already a TE Confidential Informant and swimming in social circles with the KGB and Mossad spy Robert Maxwell? Think they wouldn’t use him? That he wouldn’t be top of the list? Really?
Do you really believe that the placement of another Confidential Informant, Felix Sater, in Trump Tower (to launder money, no less, through BayRock) was random? Just a coinky-dink? Just happens like that, who knew?
Do you think, for one fukking second, that our allies—who are not constrained against signal collections of U.S. citizens—were not collecting intelligence on the world’s most dangerous criminals known to be in business with donald? Do you think they didn’t pick up donald’s name, or even his voice, on any of donald’s “deals?”
Can a famous reality TV personality and “businessman” with a global brand launder money for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and NOT be tracked by FiveEye intelligence services? What about our ally, Israel? No collection there? No? They are so terrible at spying that they didn’t know about donald laundering for Mogilevich and the Iranians (among others)?
Do you believe that before donald’s Presidency, none of our allies shared this intelligence with us?
Get real. I could ask ten more questions just like this. And for those former CIA/NSA folks with Twitter accounts, who like to jump on my timeline and pooh-pooh me: you can’t have it both ways. You can’t rightfully promote the skill and scope of your agencies
and play dumb about donald. You might not have been on a desk that was aware of his fat fukking file, but you can’t stare at all that’s in the public domain and pretend he wouldn’t have been a tool in your agency’s box. You can’t play smart and dumb. Choose.
Back to the interview question: Why did they [our intelligence agencies] allow him to become President?
Well, unfortunately, the answer is the same. SECRECY.
And at this point, they’re choosing their secrecy over our lives. Literally.