Originally published Apr 25 2019

Larry Johnson’s latest essay, just republished at the august Consortium News, is a bombshell.

Special Counsel Mueller: Disingenuous and Dishonest
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/24/special-counsel-mueller-disingenuo...

This lays out the evidence that Felix Sater, the driving force behind the negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, Henry Greenberg, who offered to sell “Russian dirt on Hillary” to Roger Stone, and Joseph Mifsud, the “Maltese professor” who told George Papadopoulos about Hillary emails the Russian government allegedly possessed and offered to introduce him to Russians — all were either FBI informants, or, in the case of Mifsud, had the deepest of ties to the British Deep State.

Here are the sources that Johnson cites on Sater,

Felix Sater--The Rosetta Stone for the FBI/CIA Conspiracy Against Trump? by Larry Johnson
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2018/11/felix-sater-...

The FBI Tried and Failed to Entrap Trump by Larry C Johnson
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/04/the-fbi-trie...

and Greenberg,

https://democratdossier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/HenryGreenbergDos...

https://democratdossier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Download-PDF-Sour...

and Mifsud.

All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsud's Links To UK Intelligence
https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/04/all-russiagate-roads-lead-to-london...

In regard to Sater specifically, Johnson has this to say:

Felix Sater was not just some run of the mill snitch. He was a very important informant and asset for both the FBI and the CIA. Don’t take my word for it. That is what former Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. When Loretta Lynch was nominated for US Attorney General, she was pressed by Senator Orin Hatch to divulge information on Sater to satisfy all of the people who had been defrauded in the failed Fort Lauderdale Trump Towers venture. Here’s Loretta Lynch’s response:

‘The defendant in question, Felix Sater, provided valuable and sensitive information to the government during the course of his cooperation, which began in or about December 1998. For more than 10 years, he worked with prosecutors from my Office, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and law enforcement agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, providing information crucial to national security and the conviction of over 20 individuals, including those responsible for committing massive financial fraud and members of La Cosa Nostra. For that reason, his case was initially sealed.’
Johnson believes it to be inconceivable that the Mueller team was unaware of these ties — none of which are mentioned in the Mueller report. The omission regarding Sater is particularly egregious, because Andrew Weissmann, a key member of Mueller’s team, had signed the plea deal establishing cooperation between Sater and the FBI.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5972612-Felix-Sater-s-Cooperatio...

Here are some of Johnson’s scathing comments:

An honest prosecutor would have and should have disclosed this fact. He, Sater, was the one encouraging the Trump team to cozy up to Russia. Mueller does not disclose one single instance of Trump or Cohen or any of the Trump kids calling Sater on the carpet and chewing his ass for not bringing them deals and not opening doors in Russia. Omitting this key fact goes beyond simple disingenuity. It is a conscious lie.

The circumstantial evidence indicates that Sater was doing this at the behest of FBI handlers. We do not yet know who they are.

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This is more than an odd coincidence. This is a pattern. The FBI was targeting the Trump campaign and personnel in a deliberate effort to implicate them in wanting to work with Russians.

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Once again, the Mueller team treats the provocateur — i.e., Joseph Mifsud — as some simple guy with ties to Russia’s political elites. Another egregious lie. Mifsud was not working on behalf of Russia. He was deployed by MI-6. Disobedient Media has been on the forefront of exposing Mifsud’s ties to Western intelligence in general and the Brits in particular.

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It is not a mere matter of Mueller and his team “failing” to disclose some important facts. If they were operating honestly, they should have investigated Mifsud, Greenberg and Sater. But they did not. Two of the three alleged Russian stooges — Sater and Greenberg — have ties to the FBI. And Mifsud has been living and working in the belly of the intelligence community.

When you put these facts together it is clear that there is real meat on the bone for Barr’s upcoming investigation of the “spying” that was being done on the Trump campaign by law enforcement and intelligence. These facts must become a part of the public consciousness. The foreign country that worked feverishly to meddle in the 2016 presidential election and the subsequent rule of Donald Trump is the United Kingdom. Russia is the patsy.

Johnson does not bring up the Trump Tower meeting. There is excellent reason to suspect that that was a Deep State set up as well. Both Veselnitskaya, and the Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin that accompanied her, were associates of Fusion GPS, the company hired by the Clinton campaign to do opposition research on the Trump campaign that commissioned the infamous Steele dossier. Veselnitskaya met with Fusion GPS’ Glenn Simpson both before and immediately after the Trump Tower meeting. Furthermore, Veselnitskaya, who was considered a Russian agent by our Deep State, was mysteriously granted a special visa — after previously being denied one — by the Obama DOJ, enabling her to attend the meeting. And the email from British music producer Rob Goldstone which requested the meeting sounds like it could have been dictated by the CIA or MI6 atempting to entrap the Trump campaign:

Emin [Agalarov, a Russian pop star represented by Goldstone] just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting.

The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras [a Moscow-based developer who tried to partner with Trump in a hotel project] this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.

This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump — helped along by Aras and Emin.

As I previously commented on this:

Subsequent inquiry revealed that Goldstone had had no such contact with Emin — he was making this up out of whole cloth. It’s notable that Goldstone echoes the claim in the Steele dossier that the Russian government was attempting to assist Trump’s election by trashing Hillary. And — as Steve McGrath has noted in his response to the initial draft of this essay — Goldstone employs some key phrases that would make this communication likely to be flagged by the NSA for investigation.
One innocuous interpretation of Goldstone’s emails is that he was just BSing Trump Jr. in order to get him to listen to Veselnitskaya’s pitch regarding the Magnitsky Act. But if that is the case, why was Goldstone’s email written to create the impression that, by responding positively, Trump Jr. appeared to be accepting an offer to “collude” with the Russian government during the election?

A 7-Month-Old Story that Still Needs Follow-Up — The Trump Tower Meeting was A Deep State Set-Up…
https://caucus99percent.com/content/7-month-old-story-still-needs-follow...

2016 Trump Tower Meeting Looks Increasingly Like a Setup by Russian and Clinton Operatives |…
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/08/13/trump_tower_...

Moreover, True Pundit, citing anonymous inside sources, claims that the Trump Tower meeting was a Deep State setup that would provide a legal excuse for GCHQ (British intelligence) to put all Trump associates who attended the meeting under continuing surveillance — the results of which could then be passed along to their US colleagues:

EXCLUSIVE: Six U.S Agencies Conspired to Illegally Wiretap Trump; British Intel Used as NSA Front…
https://truepundit.com/exclusive-six-u-s-agencies-conspired-to-illegally...

I have no idea whether True Pundit’s sources are correct — so much reporting regarding Russiagate based on “inside sources” has proved bogus — but, in light of all the other evidence suggesting that the Obama Deep State was attempting to entrap Trump associates, this claim definitely bears examination. It would make logical sense out of a situation that otherwise appears incoherent.

The joint efforts of the US and British Deep States to entrap and spy on the Trump campaign appear to have been quite elaborate, as I previously summarized in this essay on “Spygate”:

The Elements of Spygate
https://caucus99percent.com/content/elements-spygate

Although, in light of the revelations in Larry Johnson’s recent essays, it might just as well be called Entrapment-Gate.

Mueller’s conclusions on “Russian interference”, in his report and in his indictments, are every bit as contrived and phony as his disingenuous descriptions of Trump associate ties to Russians. Anyone with common sense should be able to grasp this immediately: Mueller’s team never bothered to interview three key individuals who know or claim to know the source of the DNC/Podesta emails — Julian Assange, Craig Murray, and Kim Dotcom — even though these individuals are overtly willing to testify. And Mueller’s claims regarding Guccifer 2.0 and his alleged transfer of DNC documents to WIkileaks are idiotic on their face.

Mueller’s New Indictment — Do the Feds Take Us for Idiots?!
https://caucus99percent.com/content/mueller%E2%80%99s-new-indictment%E2%...

The 'Guccifer 2.0' Gaps in Mueller's Full Report
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/18/the-guccifer-2-0-gaps-in-muellers-...

And Mueller just echoes the moronic, propagandistic claims about “the Russians” attempting to “foment chaos” and “undermine our democracy” via social media efforts. It is really disgraceful and depressing that grown people have affected to take these seriously.

HILARITY ALERT: Moon of Alabama Explains What the Indicted Russian Trolls Were Really Doing
https://caucus99percent.com/content/hilarity-alert-moon-alabama-explains...

As Johnson has now made clearer than ever before, the Mueller report is in fact an exercise in cover-your-ass that not only endorses our Deep State’s evidence-free assertions that the Russian government “interfered in our election”, but also attempts to hide the fact that our Deep State, ably assisted by our sycophantic mainstream media (with the notable exception of Fox, no doubt motivated more by partisan considerations than thirst for the truth), has engaged in one of the most elaborate seditious plots in American history, the purpose of which was to prevent Trump’s election and, once that failed, cripple his Presidency and prevent the rapprochement with Russia that Trump had hoped to achieve.

Of course, evidence supporting this view has been accumulating for several years, but hardly any of it has been reported by MSM, who maintain the Deep State’s preferred narratives by simply failing to mention any counter evidence. However, the situation may now be different, as Trump has just tweeted about Johnson’s new essay!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1121006942502182913?ref_src=t...

Here is my message to the President:

I urge you to meet with Larry Johnson, to solicit not only his views regarding Entrapment-Gate, but also the transmission of the DNC/Podesta emails to Wikileaks.

Do you remember when you stated that you really believed that Putin really believed that the Russian government had no scheme to interfere in the 2016 election? After you look at all the pertinent evidence, you should consider the possibility that — Putin was right! In which case you might want to offer your friend Vlad a sincere apology for the recent behavior of our Deep State and our rabid media. The vendetta to which you have been subjected had, as one of its key goals, to prevent you from carrying out your common-sense desire to improve relations with Russia.

Afterword: The MSM that serve as conduits for Deep State lies and fantasies now have a full-court press going to smear Johnson as a “conspiracy theorist” who once spread a rumor that Michelle Obama had used the term “Whitey” back in 2008. Larry explains what actually happened here:

Vindicated At Last, Thank You General Barr by Larry C Johnson
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/04/vindicated-a...

Larry heard this story from several sources, and he didn’t realize that all had been contacted by Hillary Clinton operatives spreading the rumor, so he published it. In any case, this is irrelevant, and precisely the sort of ad hominem attack that propagandists employ when they want to divert intellectually superficial people from examining the real evidence. Don’t just take Johnson’s word for anything — look at the evidence he cites. And bear in mind that Johnson is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity — the group of retired intelligence veterans who forcefully informed the nation prior to our 2003 invasion of Iraq that the so-called evidence for Saddam’s WMDs was completely bogus. Whereas most of the media now criticizing him as a “conspiracy theorist” helped to spread the WMD lie.