Steven P. Schrage is a former George W. Bush government official and present consultant, who wrote on investigative journalist Matt Taibbi’s blog Aug. 9 under the title “The Spies Who Hijacked America.” Schrage means British spies, whom he calls “the Cambridge Four” and compares to “the Cambridge Five” of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean, John Cairncross; and whom he calls the movers both for the firing of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser and for the entire “Russiagate” drive against President Donald Trump. Schrage makes clear he is providing information to the investigative counsel U.S. Attorney John Durham appointed by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the intelligence services in “Russiagate.”
Schrage’s Wikipedia entry states: “In July 2016, Schrage convened a high-profile conference at the University of Cambridge on the upcoming U.S. presidential election ... which was based on his Harvard and Cambridge research and experience on Campaigns and Foreign Policy. [Stefan Halper was supervising Schrage’s doctoral thesis at the time—ed.] Conference guests included former Secretary of State and UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright; Republican Congressman and presidential campaign adviser Vin Weber; head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove; U.K. Foreign and Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind; the BBC’s lead diplomatic correspondent and head of Peterhouse College Cambridge Bridget Kendall, and several ambassadors and leading U.S./U.K. scholars. At the symposium, FISA warrant subject Carter Page met FBI spy Stefan Halper for the first time, which launched the Russian collusion and Spygate controversies…. Only a few weeks after this conference, the FBI’s controversial Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Trump campaign officials was launched.”
Schrage is, then, in a position to detail the actions of Dearlove, Halper, Christopher Steele, and Christopher Andrew, in both triggering “Crossfire Hurricane” and in targeting the downfall of Flynn — Halper, in fact, told Schrage two days before the Washington Post leak that Flynn would be taken down.
(Rep. Devin Nunes last year called Schrage a part of a secret anti-Trump group in the GOP, as Schrage reports. Nunes has been aware of Schrage’s role for some time, and has repeatedly demanded that he “come clean.")
