The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Who's got the McGuffin?

Episode Date: February 17, 2024

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All of a sudden, oh my gosh, there's a Russia threat. We're all going to die. I'm not telling you there's no Russia threat. I'm not telling you we should gaffe it off. Let me be clear. I'm just telling you the motives for people telling you there's a big threat from Russia yesterday are not what you think. Today's show is going to blow your freaking doors off. It all goes back to Ukraine, their role in the Spygate thing, and the Clintons' role in a major technology transfer to Russia. Russia, I thought we hated Russia.

They hate them now. They didn't hate them before. Gina Haspel was the chief of station in London when John Brennan was running this international spying push-pull operation against Donald Trump. I remember. Push-pull. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, so Schellenberger and his piece in public, this is their blog, put this out last night, Schellenberger, Taibbi, and Gutentag, they all deserve credit. Great story. He talks about dating back to the Nunes

memo, the Devin Nunes memo that explodes this whole thing. They note that dating back to the release of the Nunes memo in 2018, exposing the corruption of the FISA process, senior intelligence officials, including Trump's CIA director, Gina Haspel, have repeatedly blocked attempts to declassify

information about the Trump Russia investigation. They had good reason to obstruct the release of these documents. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, what he's saying is this spying operation very simply is being run on Donald Trump, that there is a series of binders or papers that describe what happens. And there's a football going on right now with them. Who has them? Where are the missing papers? This is like, you ever see Pulp Fiction where they run around, they open the chest and they see the gold. They don't know what's in there. They see this gold light. Where is the MacGuffin? Where are these papers that describe this operation? This is all you need to know right now. Does Trump have them? Does the FBI have them? Does Langley have them? Where's the damn papers? FBI have them. Does Langley have them? Where's the damn papers? And folks, how the hell did Gina Haspel get to be the CIA director under Trump and into Biden's administration when someone on the inside knew she was running this op with John Brennan through the CIA's London office?

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And you notice everybody was sold. Oh yeah. This is under, it's under Trump. Gina Haspel was running. She was the chief of station in London when this entire op was being run out of London. Don't you find it weird that Hillary Clinton and the team who were like,

Hey, we've got this dossier saying Trump's a Russian spy. Don't you find it weird that the guy who produced the dossier, Christopher Steele, was operating in where? London. It seems weird a little bit. Peewee thinks so. Why? Maybe because she had some contacts with these people.

Remember the whole Papadopoulos incident? London. Who told Donald Trump to put Gina Haspel in there as head of the CIA? Now, you may be saying if you're a never-Trumper, anti-Trumper, hate-Trumper, whatever. Well, he should vet his people better. Oh, fair. Fine. We can talk about that another day.

That's not the question I'm asking right now. The question I'm asking right now is who the fuck told him to put Gina Haspel in at the CIA? And don't you find it awfully convenient that Gina Haspel is still there now. So Joe Biden, who absolutely hates Donald Trump with the deepest of darkest passions you've ever seen in your life, still has Donald Trump CIA director. What does that tell you? You think she's on our team? Team America? World police? world police.

I said it was a push-pull operation being run out of CIA London with the oversight of John Brennan at the CIA to F over Donald Trump. What do I mean? Very simple. They wanted to frame Donald Trump as a Russian spy. They pushed a bunch of people, intelligence operatives around the world.

They pushed a bunch of people in front of Trump and his team that they thought they could say were connected to the Russians. And then they had the dopey management of the FBI pull the information out. And they were like, hey guys, look at this. Look, this is unbelievable. We got Trump meeting with Trump's people, meet with all these Russians. You guys should go get a FISA warrant. And the FBI was like, yeah, man, let's do it. Okay. Here's a great man, Sean Davis, you know him?

If you don't, you should. This guy is a, I mean, an absolutely shit hot actual reporter who knows exactly what he's doing. He writes over at The Federalist. Here he is on Tucker Carlson show, formerly on Fox and now on the Tucker Carlson Network, telling you exactly what I'm telling you, that you know what's really weird? When this MacGuffin of papers that we now

don't know what it is. This is what Schellenberger's reporting is about. Who has it? Was the Mar-a-Lago raid to get the papers back that described this whole thing? Is this like that National Treasure movie? Where's the MacGuffin, folks? Where, we'll call it the binder. I'm not talking about Corrine Jean-Pierre, hat-tip Jesse Wood. Where is the binder? It's the only question you need to know right now. The binder, all of that information is in there. Where is the binder? And who made it go away? Listen to Sean Davis on Fox and you tell me. This isn't just a scandal about Democrat projection. This is a scandal about what was a coup planned against the incoming administration at the highest levels. And I can report here tonight that these declassifications that have come out,

those weren't easy to get out. And there's, in fact, far more waiting to get out. Unfortunately, those releases and declassifications, according to multiple sources I've talked to, are being blocked by CIA Director Gina Haspel, who herself was the main link between Washington and London as the London station chief for John Brennan's CIA during the 2016 election. Recall, it was London where Christopher Steele was doing all this work. And I'm told that it is Gina Haspel personally who's blocking continued declassification of these documents that will show the American people the truth of what actually happened. Hmm. Who told Trump to make her the CIA director? Was she doing all the wet work? Was she the cleanup operation?

Certainly appears so. She's still the CIA director. So strange Biden would keep her on board. Got rid of just about everyone else in the Trump orbit except her. Except her and Christopher Wray. Weird. So strange. I'd like you to read this Fox News article, Sam Chamberlain, back from 2018. It's about Peter Stroke.

You know, he was one of the FBI agents with a big role in Spygate. But I want to read this part to you because it's super important. Peter Stroke had a boss. His name is frequently left out of a lot of this. He basically makes an appearance in all three of my books on the matter. By the way, thank you to all who blew the book up. It was a top, I think, 50 book on Amazon, which is crazy considering it's been out four years. But I appreciate that.

No need to. You can get it from the library. It's cheaper. Bill Priestap. Bill Priestap is a name you need to know. This is an article from 2018. Bill Priestap, outside of Jim Comey, is the most important person in the FBI

on this entire effort to spy on Donald Trump and engage in this political setup to frame him as a Russian asset and then to have the FBI pull it out and present it to a FISA court. Priestap's a key figure in this whole thing. Bill Priestap, they noted in 2018, was interviewed Tuesday as part of an ongoing joint investigation by the House. Priestap was Peter Stroke's supervisor and oversaw both the Russia and Clinton investigations. Holy shit, this guy seems

really important. Why don't more people know who he is? Here's the kick in the balls, man. Get your cups on. The lawmaker described Prestep as a very cooperative witness, but added that unanswered questions remained about Prestep's overseas travel. So weird. He's super cooperative, Joe, but he just doesn't want to answer this one question about overseas travel. What is it? One line of questioning Tuesday concerned a trip to London by Bill Priestap in May of 2016 and whether it was connected to the Russia case? Oh, the trip was referenced by Peter Stroke in a May text message to an FBI

lawyer, Lisa Page, that said Bill would be, quote, back from London next week. He was in London for a week. That old ferret face. He said that? Oh, my, that's awful. That's awful. Someone confiscate the AI voice generator from Joe before he gets himself hurt, please. Great.

Go back to that on Fox. Go back. He was in London for a week in May of 2016. And it's funny, everybody says he was so cooperative, but he just doesn't want to talk about that trip to London. To London, where Gina Haspel was the CIA station chief in London as John Brennan was running an international operation to frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset

in conjunction with our chief of station and our London CIA, London. So strange. Gina Haspel is still in there. And there's a little, there's a little like MacGuffin out there buying their full of stuff that no one wants you to see. Now, let me tell you something. The extent of this operation being run out of CIA, London from a source, and this is the part, CIA London's involvement, again, is not new. Here's what I got from a source that I've never disclosed before and I'm going to let you know about today. This information had to be cleaned. It had to be laundered. That's why I've always referred to this, and that's why I'm referring

to it again today, as an information laundering operation. Why? Because if John Brennan told the FBI, I got this information from Hillary Clinton's fake source, Christopher Steele, the FBI would have been laughed out of court. So they had to pretend that they had to assign the information to sources. Folks, it's really critical you understand this. This is the part that's going to kind of eat your lunch a little bit. But if you don't understand this, you're not going to understand how this worked. Yesterday described how Brennan flushed this information down various pipes so that 20, 30 different people will go to the FBI with the same thing. But here's the kicker. None of the information could have any official fingerprints on it. Do you understand why?

Because it was fake. The Five Eyes intelligence partners we used to set up Trump, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the partners, whatever role they all had. We know the UK was involved here, the GCHQ, their spy outlet over there. They did not want any official part of this. Do you understand that? You need to get this. There are no official communications through Five Eyes indicating any of this, which is strange because CNN and everyone else reported that the British were handing us information about Trump's contact with the Russians. I need you to understand this information was all laundered through

the GCHQ and the CIA office in London. I don't think I put that out there before. I'm reasonably confident I haven't. The CIA and Gina Haspel knows everything. Folks, the question today is how the hell is Gina Haspel still in charge of the CIA? And what does Gina Haspel know? Folks, John Ratcliffe, who's a friend, hat tip fool Nelson, by the way, another great reporter on this. So many people online who've done such amazing work on this who deserve just mounds of credit. Turn me on to this article from 2020. I saw this thing today. Trump's spy chief releases a new batch of Russia documents to the Justice Department.

Oh, look, here's the MacGuffin, Joe. Apparently, people were so upset a career prosecutor resigned from the Durham investigation and prompted Democrats to call for an emergency investigation. Holy shit, are they afraid of the MacGuffin, the binder? What does Gina Haspel know about the binder? Where is the binder? I'm sure Gina has a copy. Axios notes, here's what they're saying.

In response to reporting, John Ratcliffe, who used to be our director of national intelligence under Trump, and by the way, one of the good guys, confirmed in a statement to Axios, quote, at my direction, the DNI has provided almost 1,000 pages of materials, sounds like the MacGuffin, to the DOJ in response to John Durham,

the special investigator's document request, including a new batch, including a new batch. Did I say that twice? Including a new batch that DOJ lawyers are now able to view immediately. Sounds like those DOJ lawyers tried to stop this thing from coming out. Looks like they're MacGuffin to me, lad. That was not the AI, Jenna. That was actually, that was Joe's, his cerebral cortex generating the voices.

I just want you to think about what I just told you. Don't trust anyone. Your government is effing you over. They have all of this. They know about the whole thing. It was all being run through CIA London. The information was being laundered through Gina Haspel CIA station in London. It was being laundered.

It was being given, it was being worked with, with GCHQ, the United Kingdom and the Australian. And it was all a setup. The George Papadopoulos downer meeting was a setup. The George Papadopoulos misfit meeting was a setup. It was all a setup. This was all an op from day one, a whole thing. And the MacGuffin is still out there.