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U.S. Spies, Seeking to Retrieve Cyberweapons, Paid Russian Peddling Trump Secrets
nytimes.com ^ | FEB. 9, 2018 | MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Posted on 02/10/2018 1:07:14 PM PST by 867V309

BERLIN — After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cranberryjuice; fakenews; russia; spying
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I don't believe this story for a second. Its just a cover for the CIA spending taxpayer money to damage candidate Trump.




1 posted on 02/10/2018 1:07:14 PM PST by 867V309
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The presstitutes really want to push this story.


2 posted on 02/10/2018 1:10:15 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: 867V309

Here’s the earlier NYT thread, looks like the Times has been tweaking their headline:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3630886/posts


3 posted on 02/10/2018 1:11:34 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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The guy was smart enough to market the products his customers wanted. They were stupid enough to pay for both things, and got neither.


4 posted on 02/10/2018 1:12:13 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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For comments #1 and #2, they go together under the program known as MOCKINGBIRD. It all stinks, and intertwined.


5 posted on 02/10/2018 1:15:42 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: 867V309

Yep, they’re afraid the story is going to leak and they’ve concocted a cover story about trying to buy ‘cyberweapons’ but ‘Oh by the way we got info on Trump accidentally’.


7 posted on 02/10/2018 1:17:29 PM PST by Stevenc131
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BINGO!! It's a CRAP story!! The CIA and the FBI and HILLIARY and the DNC are all up to their necks to trying to DESTROY Trump!!

All they have done to Trump would have Ruined 10 other people!

8 posted on 02/10/2018 1:18:02 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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"It's not true that the NSA Cyberweapon was stolen from the B-3 Bomber. "


9 posted on 02/10/2018 1:20:23 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Lies, lies, lies. That’s all the lying dying communist mainstream media knows.

Yes, but what choice do they have ? If they told the truth, most of them would be out of a job, and some of them would be in jail.

10 posted on 02/10/2018 1:21:48 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Obvious cover story. They paid Russians for Trump dirt. Just like using FISA warrant on someone near Trump to spy on Trump. Just imagine Bush doing this to Obongo in 08.


11 posted on 02/10/2018 1:22:12 PM PST by gibsonguy
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promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons

Since a cyberweapon is most certainly some computer program rather than the actual hardware especially software that is meant to be spread to other people's computers like a virus, how can it possibly be returned? It's like returning an original disc after you've made a copy. The Russians would still have their copies unless they were destroyed and if they could be destroyed there would be no need to return the stolen copy.

12 posted on 02/10/2018 1:23:50 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.)
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FISA Warrant on Carter Page was like CHAIN MIGRATION!! They could spy on ANYINE he cam into contact with!


13 posted on 02/10/2018 1:24:11 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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The CIA and the FBI and HILLIARY and the DNC are all up to their necks to trying to DESTROY Trump!!

Yes, but what choice do they have ? If they told the truth, most of them would be out of a job, and some of them would be in jail.

14 posted on 02/10/2018 1:24:50 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Looks like a CYA lame excuse.


15 posted on 02/10/2018 1:25:30 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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This is utter b.s. How can you possibly “retrieve cyber weapons” — the thieves could have made any number of copies, yes? Sham cover story for paying $100K in govt funds to Russians for supposed Trump “dirt”.....


16 posted on 02/10/2018 1:28:37 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: KarlInOhio
Since a cyberweapon is most certainly some computer program rather than the actual hardware especially software that is meant to be spread to other people's computers like a virus, how can it possibly be returned? It's like returning an original disc after you've made a copy. The Russians would still have their copies unless they were destroyed and if they could be destroyed there would be no need to return the stolen copy.

Well... it's all explained in this book.


17 posted on 02/10/2018 1:30:21 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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This story is a lie except the CIA was willing to pay 10 million tax dollars for sex dirt on Trump after the election and did so but the film was a phony. This was treason and sedition and those involved should be hung publicly after their short trial. I assure you it is bull crap about the cyber :weapons” I know that because the cyber weapons were software and easily copied and disseminated . The stupid NSA idiots let that get hacked. You can not get that tooth paste back in the tube!! We have Brennan trying to over throw the government that we elected!! I promise you that this is in the IG report and they are trying to do a preemptive strike. This is an all out attempted coup and needs to be treated as such with summary executions of those involved on conviction!! Where is Jeffy Sessions?


18 posted on 02/10/2018 1:31:20 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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we should defund both the CIA and the FBI.

These last few years have proven both organizations are rogue.


19 posted on 02/10/2018 1:33:36 PM PST by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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What does it mean to “recover stolen cyber weapons”? Sounds weird.


20 posted on 02/10/2018 1:35:39 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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