CIA Allegations in Trump Russia Investigation

Details about how Obama's CIA targeted Trump and

started the entire Russia hoax. For years, we were told that

tips from an Australian diplomat tipped off the FBI

after a random conversation with Papadopoulos, a no-name

20-something.

But according to new reporting by Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, the whole

thing was a CIA setup. Former CIA director

John Brennan identified 26 Trump associates

to be targeted by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and

then those interactions were the targets

and were targeted by the FBI as suspicious,

and that's how the FBI launched the Russia collusion hoax.

The details of this entire operation have been stored in a top-secret

binder in a secret room in Washington.

Trump ordered the whole thing declassified, and now the rumor is

that the

binder might be missing.

Joining me now, one of the reporters who broke the story,

Michael Shellenberger.

Michael, explain how this all started with the CIA

picking these 26 Trump people.

Yeah, good to be with you, Jesse. Well, obviously, this is an extremely serious

story and serious allegation by multiple credible sources

that Public and Racket, that's Matt Taibbi's, uh, publication,

have spoken to.

These are people that are close to the House intelligence

investigation

of how the Russia collusion hoax began.

The story, as you mentioned, was that, oh, we were just informed by foreign

intelligence about this. Our sources tell us a very different

story, which is that this was initiated by the US

government. It came from within the US government's

intelligence community,

including the CIA, that they asked the so-called Five

Eyes nations intelligence agencies, that's the other English-speaking nations,

including Britain and Australia, to spy on

26 Trump associates, or at least they had

a list of the 26 associates that were identified.

This is new information. Some people have theorized about this

and speculated about it. Uh, we feel very confident that our

sources were in a position to know and are very credible in this report, and it's

obviously a very serious allegation because this is illegal

spying and it's illegal election interference.

Okay, so you're reporting that the CIA

got these allies to

bump these 26 Trump associates, create

interactions, and then call these interactions

suspicious

and let the FBI know they were suspicious, and that starts the whole thing.

What about this binder that

encapsulates this whole thing and no one knows where it is

right now or Trump has it. What's that?

Well, Jesse, we'll have a piece tomorrow that

is specifically about the

binder, but, uh, as a friend of, uh, of the show and of yours

on this, I'll say that there has been widespread speculation

that

this binder was the, was the reason or a reason

for the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, and we'll be discussing that

tomorrow. But obviously, if this binder contains what

we have been told that it contains, which may include raw intelligence,

information showing that the US government, the CIA

and the intelligence

community of the US government, initiated the Russia

collusion hoax, that it did not occur in the way

that the official story, including

the Durham investigation, had portrayed it, then that's extremely

serious information and it may be, if the FBI then went to go get it

in order to continue the cover-up of this information, that obviously

adds an even more dramatic wrinkle to this.

Again, we'll have more to say about it tomorrow,

but this is a huge, huge story.

I mean, I can't... Uh, I've been thinking about it.

In the history of the United States of America, have we ever had something like

this where the intelligence community was weaponized against a political

candidate, and weaponi- and using our foreign allies to do it.

I, I can't think of a more important or dramatic story.

Yeah, and then going to great lengths by using

FBI

raids to cover it up. That's just an absolute incredible

development. Great reporting to you and to Matt, and we look forward to your

report-