CIA Director Gina Haspel and the British Role in the Anti-Trump Plot

by Chris Farrell
October 6, 2020

• „In the next paragraph, [Washington Post reporter Shane] Harris notes breathlessly: „… Trump has accused the United Kingdom of conspiring with American intelligence to spy on his presidential campaign.“
• President Trump certainly has made that claim, and one believes for very good reasons that seem to compound weekly.
• Having the British run an aggressive intelligence collection operation against Team Trump targets, bypassing US legal prohibitions, and then laundering the intelligence „take“ back to US officials via the UK-US liaison relationship is precisely something an „honorary UK desk officer“ might be good and adept at accomplishing. Certainly, these subjects and questions deserve closer examination, without the phony prophylactic defense of grave warnings about „sources and methods.“
• CIA Director Gina Haspel can answer all of those questions, and she does not even have to touch upon classified information to do so. The American public is due her answers.“ (…)