Independent journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag published an article on the Substack site Public last week that, if true, would prove the hoax of the century. Of course, the story was greeted with a shrug by the legacy media.
The trio reported that “multiple credible sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigation” had informed them that “the U.S. Intelligence Community, including the Central Intelligence Agency , illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016.”
The scheme was allegedly directed by then-CIA Director John Brennan. The sources claimed that Brennan “asked the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance [the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand] to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies.”
The sources said that Brennan had “identified 26 associates of former President Donald Trump for the Five Eyes to ‘bump,’” which means “to make contact with or manipulate.” These individuals, the authors wrote, became “targets for collection and misinformation .”