'It's like nothing we have come across before': UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump......

[steve2470]

‘It’s like nothing we have come across before’: UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump administration’s requests for help with counter-impeachment inquiry

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-latest-russia-mueller-ukraine-zelensky-a9181641.html

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The attorney general is focusing on the theory, aired on far-right conspiracy sites, and raised by Trump and Giuliani, that Ukraine framed Vladimir Putin over the US election in a complex triple-cross operation by impersonating Russian hackers.

Trump and Barr have also been asking other foreign governments for help in investigating the FBI, CIA and Mueller investigators. The US president has called on the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison for assistance, while the attorney general has been on similar missions to the UK and Italy.

And the information being requested has left allies astonished. One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services”.

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I did a search of the forum before posting this. The last paragraph really should be blasted far and wide in this country.

[Stuart G]

1. Thank You for posting...K and R.. Everyone should read the last paragraph

[Skittles]

2. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT BARR

he is not working for the American people, he is PIMPING FOR TRUMP

[blm]

6. And set to destroy our intel agencies to protect Putin.

I’ve been saying all along they wanted Ukraine to take the fall for Russia’s crimes.

Barr working for Trump means Barr is working for Putin.

[Progressive Jones]

9. He's pimping for the right wing coup apparatus. Trump is merely the current puppet/front man. nt

[Skittles]

22. I think Russia groomed Trump for a long time

[wnylib]

43. So do I.

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[amywalk]

20. He's up to his eyebrows in Jeffrey Epstein's murder as well.

[wnylib]

44. And maybe Khashoggi too.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Please send evidence

direct to Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Schiff.

[SlogginThroughIt]

13. I would bet hey already have it.

[dhill926]

4. Fucking traitors...

Barr needs to go down hard...

[HelpImSurrounded]

5. It was me

They'll never catch me but it was all me!

I'm actually a Rothschild and I've been building this whole conspiracy for 200 years!! (Yes, I'm immortal). It's all me, - climate change, the second gunman, 9/11 and 2016!

Putin is my puppet! So is Trump! And you'll never gues why I've done all this...

[keithbvadu2]

10. A proud sense of accomplishment?

[StClone]

34. Shakespeare you old rascal

Your greatest work lives! "Mortal Man Forspeak Immortal Evil."

[HelpImSurrounded]

47. 😂😂😂

[gademocrat7]

7. Barr needs to be disbarred.

He and his mob boss need to be removed from office.

[gab13by13]

8. Barr is more dangerous than Trump.

[Generic Other]

11. Humiliating for our country

Utterly disgraceful. We should not have to endure another minute of this.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Agreed.

Obviously.

It might be time for the dollar to no longer be the international currency of exchange. I don't trust the USA anymore, and I live in it.

[Cosmocat]

16. You shouldn't

We are upside down, and 1/3 of the country us getting off on it, and another 1/3 is at best fucking clueless.

We are not to be trusted, cause as obviously up shit creak as we are now and roughly 2/3 of the country does not share our level of concern, we are fucked.

[erronis]

31. I trust the US, just not many of the politicians or monied interests.

I think the US population as a whole is mainly OK. Pockets of ignorance, biases, hatred.

Money has corrupted politics and general welfare.

[bdamomma]

12. rather desperate

measures to go to other countries to smear our intelligence agencies, Barr needs to disbarred. Fuck lock him up.

[TeamPooka]

15. they are traitors for Putin

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. one more step toward dictatorship

Destroy credibility of government.
Destroy credibility of press.
Destroy alliances and trade ties.
Elevate belief in one leader, one party.

[world wide wally]

18. Trump vs the USA

[spanone]

19. The Attorney General is an enemy of the people.

they will put people (Democrats) in jail over trump's fantasy.

[dchill]

21. No words but kick & recommend.

[trueblue2007]

23. THIS IS NEW??? NOW trump has asked the UK to help him win the 2020 election??

[wnylib]

45. He made solicitation phone calls to

UK Members of Parliament for their support in 2016. He selected MPs who favored Brexit snd said they had shared goals so they should work together.

The MPs more or less told him to go to hell.

I have wondered why that illegal solicitation for help from a foreign country in a US election did not receive more attention.

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Yeah, so that's why Trumpity Dumpty wants all that info on the impeachment investigation.

He can feed it to criminals in the UK, Australia and Italy to shape their lies and subterfuge. Then present it as if it's some kind of fact.

Mueller was a F*cking idiot to have not brought charges. Now he's being attacked by the very same criminal he left off the hook. Mueller and Comey are Trumpy Dumpy and shorty Putin's first victims.

[GulfCoast66]

26. Barr is the biggest threat. By far.

Unlike Trump he is smart and canny. We already know from his writings and speeches he does not trust liberal democracy. Rather a government guided by his idea of a Christofacist ideology.

He is going to try and pull something before the election. Rudy has Muddied the way for him since he was so ham fisted in his attempts and it is all coming out. And from Australia, Italy, Britain and who knows is next he is being spurned.

But that won’t stop him. He is an old man who believes he is on a mission from god.

I have no doubt he personally despise trump. But he sees this as the last chance to kill liberal democracy and put the country back in the hands of white Christians.

I hope I’m well enough known on DU to not be considered conspiracy freak. Hell, until trump admitted trying to bribe Ukraine I was against impeachment. I’m pretty moderate for DU. I own guns and hunt.

But Barr scares the shit out of me. He has no qualms about violating norms because he considers our current norms an insult to god.

I could give a shit if we ever put trump in prison. Barr truly deserves it. He hates what this country has become.

Trump does not have the stones to round up his enemies. He’s proven that. Barr does.

[Pepsidog]

38. You are absolutely correct.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

27. If only EVERY country Barr approached would issue a statement like this,

strongly condemning Barr's efforts to use their country's intelligence agencies to discredit our own agencies.

Shameful!

[machoneman]

29. Yes, the more other countries leaders say things like this, more will also refuse...

..to feed this monstrous probe.

Just wait for Trump and his camp followers to start saying they are ALL into this multi=government conspiracy to bring down his presidency. That and all countries also have Deep State folks who oppose all Trump stands for.

[Arkansas Granny]

28. K & R. Thanks for posting. It connects a lot of dots.

[LudwigPastorius]

30. You can's spell "Plump Traitor" without a T, R, U, M, or P.

[Mustellus]

32. Trump went to CIA HQ, Langley, on day one....

The morning after his inauguration. He stood before the wall of nameless memorials, with his cheering section in the first five rows. Because he knew that the Intel people have the goods on him.

I'd doubt any foreign intel service, excepting of course the KGB, is going to cooperate with this.

[Mersky]

33. Barr is a menace to our democracy.

Dump would already be toast without barr in place.

I don't care how much embarrassing trawling for bullshit barr does, he will never be able to overcome all that was wrong with tRump's performance at the Helsinki summit. He wants to cover for the pro putin actions that tRump has engaged in as candidate and president, as if they're reasonable offshoots of good foreign policy.

Good grief, tRump the candidate hid his Moscow tower deal. The candidate's son, etc. met with foreign factions to help his campaign. The pResident couldn't defend his dealings, so he went after and blocked the investigators. The pResident usurped Congress's power of the purse to withhold aid from Ukraine to benefit his political ambitions.

The pResident's 'foreign policy' is so enmeshed in his personal gain, that barr can manufacture evidence ex post facto all he wants, but he won't change my mind about the nature of the administration. I believe he's doing all of this to try his case for the pResident in the court of public opinion. How to thwart his efforts is the question I’ll carry around with me until I vote this Tuesday.

[ck4829]

50. He really is

[Zaphod42]

35. It just makes you wonder...

Obviously, the Russians want the sanctions removed. But what do they have on trump that would force him to pursue such a brazen, treasonous course of action? It must be a doozy....or maybe several doozies.

[wnylib]

46. I don"t think it takes much to induce

Trump ro crminal and treasonous behavior when he is inclined toward rhat anyway.

[ck4829]

49. Yep

[bucolic_frolic]

36. It's all part of their plan against democracy, rule of law, Constitution, courts, law enforcement

There will be no code of law left standing when they are done. THEY will say what the law is, and what it isn't. Totally subjective and totally about power. They probably consider it their privilege. Dictators always do.

[Pepsidog]

37. Fox is the problem people. Without Fox he has no platform.

[NCjack]

39. UK: They want you to send in dirt. Please send all the dirt you have on

Trump and his Cabinet members to The Washington Post see guide [link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/anonymous-news-tips/|].

Yeah, that should keep them busy.

[soldierant]

40. It's not like this is UK intelligence's first rodeo either.

They have see a whole lot of dirt before. Just nothing like this.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

41. Brits have such a way with the turn of a phrase:

Please define "robust."

[Johnny2X2X]

42. Crazy

This is just nuts.

[ck4829]

48. K&R