Why Was the CIA Spying on American Citizens?

It is against the law, or at the very least on paper it’s, for the CIA to spy on American residents on American soil. So why was the CIA spying on Mr. Edward Butowsky and/or Matt Couch? If you will have learn Joe Hoft’s glorious piece (see right here) on the most recent trials and travails of Ty Clevenger, an intrepid lawyer battling the Deep State, who has been combating for greater than three years to safe the discharge of damning paperwork exposing the Russia hoax and sedition by the Obama Administration, you already know he’s forcing the FBI to cough it up.

But the most recent response additionally contained this bombshell–the CIA was spying on his purchasers as nicely. Ty’s newest account of this new data dump from the US Department of Justice is posted at LawFlog. Here are some key snippets:

In The Transparency Project v. Department of Justice, et al., my consumer requested to see information indicating whether or not the CIA or its Directorate of Digital Innovation, its contractors, and so on. inserted Russian “fingerprints” into the metadata of the emails that have been launched publicly. (You can overview the whole request by clicking right here and studying Paragraph 11).

In a joint report filed in the present day, the CIA knowledgeable the court docket that it intends to claim a Glomar response to the request, i.e., that it “cannot confirm or deny” the existence of such information. . . . [In other words], The Central Intelligence Agency will neither affirm nor deny that it fabricated the Russian “fingerprints” in Democratic National Committee emails revealed in 2016 by Wikileaks and “Guccifer 2.0.”, and the FBI implicitly acknowledged in the present day that it by no means reviewed the contents of DNC worker Seth Rich’s laptop computer regardless of gaining custody of the laptop computer after his homicide.

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Full disclosure–Mr. Clevenger is a pal of mine. He writes in his article that he reached out to me and I made some telephone calls to retired pals who held senior positions on the CIA. My pals and I agreed {that a} GLOMAR response to the fundamental query, Did you spy on Mr. Butowsky and/or Mr. Couch was a tacit admission-yes!

Ty explains this level clearly and succinctly:

Allow me as an instance the purpose. If I requested the CIA for intercepted emails from the president of one other nation, the CIA would rightly difficulty a Glomar response, as a result of it could not need to affirm or deny that it has been spying on the international president. That’s what Glomar is for, as a result of the CIA is within the enterprise of secretly spying on international presidents, officers, brokers, and so on.

My consumer’s request, alternatively, is extra akin to asking the CIA for information displaying whether or not it helped Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate President John F. Kennedy. We would anticipate the CIA to declare that it has no such information as a result of it could by no means do such a factor.

Why would the CIA spy on Mr. Butowsky, for instance. Ed Butowsky was introduced into the Seth Rich saga in December 2016 by Ellen Ratner, the sister-in-law of Julian Assange’s former lawyer. Ellen spoke with Julian in November 2016 and requested Mr. Butowsky to achieve out to the dad and mom of Seth Rich and get them some assist investigating who murdered their son. It ought to come as no shock that the CIA, the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ have been monitoring each communication going out and in of Wikileaks, together with all communications of all personnel working at or related to Wikileaks. We know this due to the proof and writings of Mr. Edward Snowden. Once Snowden made his escape to Russia with the assistance of Wikileaks, Wikileaks turned a primary intelligence goal. Both the United States and the United Kingdom had ample trigger to make sure that no new secrets and techniques leaked out of Wiki and caught them unawares. In gentle of the great monitoring of all Wiki communications, I imagine the intel people knew precisely the contents of Ratner’s chat with Assange, which finally led them to Ed (i.e, Ellen Ratner talked to Julian after which talked to Ed to relay a request from Julian to assist the Rich household).

Now that Donald Trump has lastly launched FBI paperwork on Russiagate (I have no idea if there are any CIA paperwork within the pile), we will see what the FBI needed to say about Mr. Rich. Too unhealthy the President waited so lengthy to do that.  If he had pressured the difficulty final 12 months the plot to steal the 2020 election might need been disrupted.