Notice what she calls Halpert in the first sentence of the lawsuit?
Posted on 05/26/2019 6:38:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Russian-born British scholar is suing an alleged FBI informant and four news outlets for allegedly defaming her by linking her to Russian efforts to influence President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
Svetlana Lokhova filed the suit Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., seeking more than $25 million in damages from longtime University of Cambridge academic Stefan Halper as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC.
Lokhova alleges that Halper and the news outlets conspired to spread a false narrative that she approached then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn on behalf of Russian intelligence at a seminar dinner in England in 2014 and that Flynn and Lokhova had an intimate relationship.
Over time, as public attention focused on links between the Trump campaign and Russia — and after Flynn was fired from his role as national security adviser by Trump in February 2017, individuals hostile to Trump and Flynn seized on the alleged connection to Lokhova as evidence that Flynn had been compromised by Russia, she alleges in the suit.
The suit, filed for Lokhova by Charlottesville, Va.,-based attorney Steven Biss, features some unusually colorful language for a federal court pleading.
“Stefan Halper is a ratf----- and a spy, who embroiled an innocent woman in a conspiracy to undo the 2016 Presidential election and topple the President of the United States of America,” Lokhova alleges in the 66-page complaint.
In the suit, Lokhova — a historian and author who focuses on the history of intelligence work — denied any improper relationship with Flynn and said she never served in any capacity for Russian intelligence services.
The suit complains about an array of news articles and reports, including some published by British newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Times of London and...
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Notice what she calls Halpert in the first sentence of the lawsuit?
Filing suit in America, where winning a libel case is near impossible, rather than in Britain where cases are won every day, is curious, and suggests that discovery rather than winning is the real motive. Sincerely wishing her all the best with the case.
This huge though, even if it is Politico. It will bring the intel folks into the courtroom, and they won’t be able to stall it for ‘ongoing investigations’ because the IG report and the release of documents will occur soon.
She has a point.
Every lawsuit that is filed is just one more crack in the Deep State’s armor. It’s like firing a gun repeatedly at the same spot in a concrete wall. Sooner or later a “hole” is opened up!
“Pollutico alert! “
Why do you take that tack? The lawsuit is very real, no matter who reports on it. And this one will drag the FBI into the proceedings. Wished I had a front-row seat when the trial begins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Halper
This guy is a Republican! And evidently a Never Trumper!
Maybe he will drag some of his RINO buddies into the sewer with him.
She is helping blow the lid off
That is one hell of a way to start a lawsuit and not mince words about it.
Yep, Pollutico Alert, Fake News, first sentence.
A Russian-born British scholar is suing an FBI informant and four news outlets for defaming her by linking her to Hillary Clinton's efforts to Frame President Donald Trump, his campaign staff, and remove him from the Presidency by Coup.
I’d like to see more of these ratf****** sued.
"British Scholar Sues Deep State Spy Stefan Halper and The WaPo, WSJ, NYT and MSNBC for Linking Her to Trump-Russia Hoax"
This gets better each day. The lawyers will be gang banging the spygaters in court.
BOL!
Did you have to pause and snicker every once in awhile while posting this.
I did yesterday, when I posted it on another thread.
I’m storing it in my documents for future uses.
I was having too much fun with the wording and probable impact on the spygate thugs.
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