President Trump will meet with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Chris Wray and the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Monday, where they will discuss the latest developments in the bombshell report that the Obama administration used a longtime FBI and CIA asset, identified as 73-year-old Cambridge professor Stefan Halper, to infiltrate and spy on his campaign.
TRUMP TO MEET ROSENSTEIN, WRAY AT WHITE HOUSE ON MONDAY: ABC
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 21, 2018
Halper was outed as the FBI’s “informant” last Friday following weeks of speculation, after the New York Times and Washington Post published easily identifiable information about the U.S. citizen and Cambridge professor. Their reports matched a March 25 article by the Daily Caller detailing Halper’s outreach to several low-level aides to the Trump campaign, including Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and a cup of coffee with campaign co-chair Sam Clovis.
These contacts are notable, as Halper’s infiltration of the Trump campaign corresponds with the two of the four targets of the FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane – in which the agency sent counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and others to a London meeting in the Summer of 2016 with former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer – who says Papadopoulos drunkenly admitted to knowing that the Russians had Hillary Clinton’s emails.
As we detailed earlier Monday, Halper – who once reportedly ran a spy-operation on the Jimmy Carter administration, received a total of $1,058,161 from the Department of Defense for four annual contracts signed under the Obama administration, and paid through the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA).
| Award ID | Recipient Name | Start Date | End Date | Amount | Awarding Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HQ003416P0148 | HALPER, STEFAN | 9/26/2016 | 3/29/2018 | $411,575 | Department of Defense |
| HQ003415C0100 | HALPER, STEFAN | 9/24/2015 | 9/27/2016 | $244,960 | Department of Defense |
| HQ003414C0076 | HALPER, STEFAN | 7/29/2014 | 7/31/2015 | $204,000 | Department of Defense |
| HQ003412C0039 | HALPER, STEFAN | 5/30/2012 | 5/29/2013 | $197,626 | Department of Defense |
(h/t ProHeat)
The timing of Halper’s most recent contract payments has recently drawn scrutiny. Made in two payments, the first installment of the $411,575 award had a start date of September 26, 2016 – three days after a September 23 Yahoo! News article by Michael Isikoff about Trump aide Carter Page, which used information fed to Isikoff by “pissgate” dossier creator Christopher Steele. The FBI would use the Yahoo! article along with the unverified “pissgate” dossier as supporting evidence in an FISA warrant application for Page.
The second installment of the award in the amount of $129,280, was dated July 26, 2017 – around three months before the FISA warrant on Carter Page was set to expire following repeated renewals signed by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and a federal judge.
Two days later on July 28, he emailed Page with what the Trump campaign aide describes as a “cordial” communication, which did not seem suspicious to him at the time.
Reporters keep asking me about my interactions with Prof. Halper.
I found all our interactions to be cordial.
Like this email I received about a year after I first met him.
He never seemed suspicious.
Just a few scholars exchanging ideas.
He had interests in policy, and politics. pic.twitter.com/D5SKkvN2Bx— Carter Page, Ph.D. (@carterwpage) May 20, 2018
July 2017: Two days after receiving a payment from the federal govt, Stefan Halper emailed Carter Page asking about internal White House staff pic.twitter.com/Fy17FwEwgk
— Jack Posobiec🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 20, 2018
As we noted earlier, it’s entirely possible of course that Halper was conducting legitimate research for the Obama administration while also participating in an FBI/DOJ spy operation on the Trump campaign.
Following Halper’s doxxing, President Trump called for an official investigation by the Department of Justice – which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein assigned to the office of the Inspector General, headed by Michael Horowitz.
I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
It looks like Trump, Wray, Rosenstein and Coates will have a lot to talk about… Perhaps Rosenstein will even hear the President’s old catch-phrase:
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