Posted on 01/10/2017 4:28:00 PM PST by keat
WASHINGTON — The chiefs of America’s intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that Russia had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump, two officials with knowledge of the briefing said.
The summary is based on memos generated by political operatives seeking to derail Mr. Trump’s candidacy. Details of the reports began circulating in the fall and were widely known among journalists and politicians in Washington.
The summary was presented as an annex to the intelligence agencies’ report on the Russian hacking of the election, the officials said. The material was not corroborated, and The New York Times has not been able to confirm the claims. But intelligence agencies considered it so potentially explosive that they decided Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders needed to be told about it and that the agencies were actively investigating it.
Intelligence officials were concerned that the information would leak before they informed Mr. Trump of its existence, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the summary is classified and talking about it would be a felony.
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cripes...first it’s fake news
now it’s fake reports ?
The rumor is that his son borrowed hundreds of millions from Russia.
RUMOR is the KEY word in that statement.
Maybe a Russian business. Or maybe just a complete lie.
The Trump family doesn’t need to beg Russia for money. Plenty would be willing to invest with him.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE?
Which will kill us first, this or global climate change?
Pathetic reverse pys-ops
I had to laugh as Claire McCaskill asked (I think) Kelly today if he agreed with the info that 17 Intelligence agencies reported. Then another question that basically asked ‘will you do what the Democrats want?’. These hearings are a joke. For Pete’s sake, the Republicans in the Senate voted to confirm Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor! The Dems had better tread lightly, considering the mood of the country.
I dont care if he molests collies hillary had to be stopped
And the wonder why their "fake news" meme blew up in their faces?
He once taped a baseball game without the expressed written consent of the Commissioner of Baseball.
You pretty much read my mind. I was going to say fake news about fake reports.
I find it impossible to believe that the media had some pre-election dirt on Trump that they did not put on page one.
“He paid for Golden Shower action from ho’s..!!”
Yeah RIGHT..!
More lies.
Of course. It’s not fake news when its THEIR fake news.
I don't believe that for a moment.
They're saying that anyone held back on Trump, ANYONE?
I call ---- ---- on that one.
“The summary is based on memos generated by political operatives seeking to derail Mr Trump’s candidacy’
So biased memos are now the God’s honest truth??? The NYT continues to make itself more and more irrelevant.
So many things are being thrown around as if they matter. Listen carefully to how many times they say Russia made PUBLIC statements against Hilary as if that’s nefarious. Hilary was busy attacking Russia and Putin, so duh.
There is no lie, no fake story, thst the gloablists will not pull to get their wish of nuclear war with Russia and the ending of American sovereignty.
If they bring down Trump the Republic dies with him.
They used the term "salacious" and I wouldn't be surprised if the Clapper/Brennan/Comey/DNC/MSM collaborative held it back as they had to be sure Hillary was a shoe in. Now they are trying to blackmail Trump with trashy oppo-research. They have now idea how over their heads they are.
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