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Was there really a spy inside the Trump campaign, as the president says?
NBC "News" ^ | May 18, 2018 | by Ken Dilanian

Posted on 05/18/2018 2:13:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Donald Trump's allegation that the Department of Justice put a "spy" inside his presidential campaign to frame him is being widely dismissed as absurd by current and former law enforcement officials.

But it would not be absurd to think the FBI might have sent informants to speak to suspects in their counterintelligence investigation into whether anyone in the Trump orbit was working with Russia to interfere in the presidential election. In fact, it would have been accepted procedure for the FBI.

"The notion of fully embedded government operatives inside a campaign is hard to imagine under these circumstances," said Frank Figliuzzi, a former head of FBI counterintelligence and an NBC News national security analyst. "What is easier to imagine is the FBI trying to flesh out information on Russian intelligence operatives by making approaches to campaign staffers if the reasonable suspicion was there and the approvals were in place."

The goal, Figliuzzi said, "would be to try to determine the degree to which Russian intelligence services were targeting the campaign, and whether any campaign officials were receptive to that targeting."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carterpage; cia; fakenews; fbi; frankfigliuzzi; georgepapadopoulos; kendilanian; samclovis; stefanhalper; trump2016; trumpwiretaps; witchhunt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought once something was confirmed as existing it was regarded as factual. Have I been wrong?


21 posted on 05/18/2018 2:56:28 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
My 2 cents conspiracy theory is that it is even worse than Trump imagines.

MY theory is that British Intelligence incensed over Trump Brexit statements was approached by someone from the Obama Administration to plan a British intelligence agency operation on the Trump campaign and to help the Obama Deep State create a sting operation between the two deep state operatives.

To me the Australian High Commissioner (Ambassador) and Steele connection fits better this way.

22 posted on 05/18/2018 2:57:35 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
But it would not be absurd to think the FBI might have sent informants to speak to suspects in their counterintelligence investigation into whether anyone in the Trump orbit was working with Russia to interfere in the presidential election. In fact, it would have been accepted procedure for the FBI.

If they didn't do it when Adlai Stevenson ran against Ike, it wasn't "accepted procedure."

ML/NJ

23 posted on 05/18/2018 3:33:32 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Cementjungle
“Sure Obama spied on Trump’s campaign, but it was for the good of the country”

Didn't Nixon get impeached for something along those lines? I seem to remember something. Hmmm.

24 posted on 05/18/2018 3:34:29 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t you think Trump might have some inside knowledge on this one? Has he been wrong yet? Sheesh.....


25 posted on 05/18/2018 3:38:47 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: DesertRhino

Bullet


26 posted on 05/18/2018 3:57:46 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Democrats: Herd mentality exhibiting melodramatic hysterics.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
>> widely dismissed as absurd by current and former law enforcement officials. <<

I seem to remember when it was absurd that Trump was "wire tapped". Now the feckless MSM is falling all over themselves making excuses for the illegal surveillance of Trump and his campaign.
27 posted on 05/18/2018 4:17:02 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: Teacher317
What is easier to imagine true is the FBI trying to flesh out fabricate information on Russian intelligence operatives by making approaches to campaign staffers as if the reasonable suspicion was were there
28 posted on 05/18/2018 4:19:17 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Without an indictment, and there won’t be any, this will fade into oblivion, marked as a Trump Delusion. Thanks, Jeffery.


29 posted on 05/18/2018 4:26:33 PM PDT by heights
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To: Robert357
My 2 cents conspiracy theory is that it is even worse than Trump imagines.

My 2 cents outlandish theory is even better than you can imagine. It helps answer the question that should be on everyone's mind right now: With all of this pervasive and illicit surveillance in place, how did Trump win?

1. Various officials in the Obama administration were conducting extensive surveillance of Trump campaign officials for months (if not longer) leading up to the election.

2. The Trump campaign knew about it.

3. THEY TOOK ACTIVE STEPS TO UNDERMINE IT.

30 posted on 05/18/2018 4:31:31 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: fhayek

Unnecessary. They already knew, and approved.


31 posted on 05/18/2018 5:45:40 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Everytime they do this it backfires, next we will find the spy who was embedded.


32 posted on 05/19/2018 4:14:59 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course not! It’s just like the time Trump said he was being wiretapped. Ridiculous! /s


33 posted on 05/19/2018 10:14:05 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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