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Government Corruption
The ‘Scarf Administration' of Barack Obama
2025-08-13
[AmericanThinker] In a 1954 about the Dutch resistance during World War II, its fighters took pride in their leader’s courage as he taunted the Germans during nighttime attacks. Brazenly wearing an easily visible white scarf, he was fearless in challenging the enemy to shoot at him.

But it was only after the resistance had suffered numerous mission setbacks that a terrible reality came to light. Their leader, known as “The Scarf”, wore the garment, not to antagonize the enemy but to let them know where exactly he was on the battlefield so that, as a German collaborator, he would not be shot by them.

One can imagine the perfidy felt by the resistance fighters upon learning a respected leader had betrayed them. The film was, appropriately, entitled “Betrayed.”

Ironically, “betrayed” is also a fitting word for what we now know about those involved in “Crossfire Hurricane”—the FBI’s code name for its effort, launched in 2016, to explore whether Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded, either wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government to win the election that year.

A treasure trove of documents just released by FBI Director Kash Patel strongly indicates the effort was less of an investigation and more of a determined campaign by the administration of President Barack Obama to help ensure Trump was defeated in his run against Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

But after Trump won the election, Obama’s campaign to delegitimize Trump did not end there; it continued during Trump’s time in the Oval Office to undermine his credibility and effectiveness. The former president and his minion force of former senior leaders, still wielding influence in their respective federal agencies, remained actively engaged in an effort to stigmatize him as corrupt.

Like the Dutch resistance fighters who discovered their leader was not what they thought he was, we are learning that Obama and his underlings played a similar role, basically serving as the equivalent of a “Scarf Administration” in office, going on to hide its operations in the shadows when the ringleaders were out of office.

The released FBI documents make it clear—just like the movie “Betrayed” was scripted, so too was the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Participants knowledgeable about the latter’s fictional plot even lied to Congress about what they knew and when they knew it. With documents released now revealing the only collusion involved was among Crossfire’s “scriptwriters” and not the originally stated characters of the investigation, Trump has challenged the mainstream media (MSM) to do its job by reporting truthfully on the story to be told.

In a nutshell, Crossfire Hurricane was launched due to allegations made in the Steele dossier—a biased report written by former British spy Christopher Steele, working for the research firm Fusion GPS, hired by Hillary’s campaign to find “dirt” on Trump. Given to the CIA, the Steele dossier was recognized for what it was—a political hit piece lacking proof. Thus, what followed was not a misunderstanding of intelligence but an effort by the Obama administration to “manufacture” intelligence to attempt a coup.

CIA Director John O. Brennan reported his agency’s findings to Obama as well as the fact the dossier was promoted by Hillary to deflect attention away from her security transgressions in having used a private internet server for transmitting highly classified information. Thus, a document failing to meet CIA’s credibility standards became the investigation’s sole source of evidence and, as per Obama’s instructions to Brennan, the director sought to give the Steele allegations the perception of truth.

Despite knowing this, Brennan later lied to Congress as was reported by the liberal New York Times. It noted that Brennan had publicly claimed the Steele dossier “was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done” due to the CIA’s credibility concerns.
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  Brennan reminds me of one of several Jon Lovitz characters: the liar, the actor etc. If Jon had done an Intelligence Specialist, it would have looked like Brennan.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-08-13 06:38  

#1  Hold January 6 'Insurrection' Committee-Styled Hearings on Obamagate!
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-08-13 04:51  

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