Racket needs to reprint your 2020 Steven Schrage story on Stefan Halper. From Debate Gate (1980), to Palmer National Bank/Iran Contra (1983), to the South African-backed Renamo guerillas in Mozambique (1989), to charges for possession of crack cocaine (1994), decade after decade, Stefan "the Walrus" Halper, a CIA nepo baby, turns up like a bad penny. He, disgraced former MI6 head Richard “Dodgy Dossier” Dearlove and disgraced MI6 spy and “pee tape” progenitor, Christopher Steele, are the taproot of Russiagate. “Their story is both a tragedy and a farce—think Jason Bourne meets Austin Powers,” wrote Halper’s former student, Stephen Schrage. “Yet the damage they did is deadly serious.” Before the Walrus’s cover was blown, he secretly recorded Trump campaign officials and selectively leaked intelligence that even the FBI concluded was “not accurate” and “not plausible” to his friends and former students in the mainstream press. For his ham-handed efforts, the U.S. government paid Halper more than a million dollars. Like the increasingly opaque Epstein Affair, Russiagate should not be a partisan issue, but a matter of grave concern to all Americans who are tired of being divided by lies and played like rubes.
One of the pieces that I think is overlooked is the entire saga of the Nunes Memo - how hard Schiff and the Democrats fought to prevent its release, and how accurate it was, in 2017! Of course Schiff’s “counter-memo” was entirely false, but it was known that the entire affair was cooked up by the DNC and John Podesta, with Marc Elias and the Clinton campaign in the middle of all of it.
This is an excellent timeline, but I think it needs to be complemented by the timeline of actual events, each with a short note about their significance. The past few broadcasts of ATW have been really dense with discussions about 'who knew what, when' being juxtaposed with 'what they actually said', which discussions are pointing out the deceptions and misdirections as they unfolded and the sabotage of Trump '45 got underway. I typically listen to these broadcasts twice to make sure I'm picking up the commentary correctly, the second time while I'm tasking something else. I think these excellent episodes need to be backed up with something that is organized and condensed, in written format. It will probably end up being an excellent outline for a future book.
Nice to see Racket Library back!
Excellent work!
Racket needs to reprint your 2020 Steven Schrage story on Stefan Halper. From Debate Gate (1980), to Palmer National Bank/Iran Contra (1983), to the South African-backed Renamo guerillas in Mozambique (1989), to charges for possession of crack cocaine (1994), decade after decade, Stefan "the Walrus" Halper, a CIA nepo baby, turns up like a bad penny. He, disgraced former MI6 head Richard “Dodgy Dossier” Dearlove and disgraced MI6 spy and “pee tape” progenitor, Christopher Steele, are the taproot of Russiagate. “Their story is both a tragedy and a farce—think Jason Bourne meets Austin Powers,” wrote Halper’s former student, Stephen Schrage. “Yet the damage they did is deadly serious.” Before the Walrus’s cover was blown, he secretly recorded Trump campaign officials and selectively leaked intelligence that even the FBI concluded was “not accurate” and “not plausible” to his friends and former students in the mainstream press. For his ham-handed efforts, the U.S. government paid Halper more than a million dollars. Like the increasingly opaque Epstein Affair, Russiagate should not be a partisan issue, but a matter of grave concern to all Americans who are tired of being divided by lies and played like rubes.
https://www.racket.news/p/the-spies-who-hijacked-america?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
Keep it coming!
One of the pieces that I think is overlooked is the entire saga of the Nunes Memo - how hard Schiff and the Democrats fought to prevent its release, and how accurate it was, in 2017! Of course Schiff’s “counter-memo” was entirely false, but it was known that the entire affair was cooked up by the DNC and John Podesta, with Marc Elias and the Clinton campaign in the middle of all of it.
This is an excellent timeline, but I think it needs to be complemented by the timeline of actual events, each with a short note about their significance. The past few broadcasts of ATW have been really dense with discussions about 'who knew what, when' being juxtaposed with 'what they actually said', which discussions are pointing out the deceptions and misdirections as they unfolded and the sabotage of Trump '45 got underway. I typically listen to these broadcasts twice to make sure I'm picking up the commentary correctly, the second time while I'm tasking something else. I think these excellent episodes need to be backed up with something that is organized and condensed, in written format. It will probably end up being an excellent outline for a future book.
July 2026 is in the future, I think.
Where was there a reference to 2026? I missed it.
2026 is shown by mistake as the date header for the July 9th entry