Posted on 01/12/2017 7:58:11 PM PST by Fedora
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And a former senior intelligence officer for a Western country who specialized in Russian counterintelligence tells Mother Jones that in recent months he provided the bureau with memos, based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trumpand that the FBI requested more information from him.
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In June, the former Western intelligence officerwho spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clientswas assigned the task of researching Trump's dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm. This was for an opposition research project originally financed by a Republican client critical of the celebrity mogul. (Before the former spy was retained, the project's financing switched to a client allied with Democrats.) "It started off as a fairly general inquiry," says the former spook, who asks not to be identified. But when he dug into Trump, he notes, he came across troubling information indicating connections between Trump and the Russian government. According to his sources, he says, "there was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit."
This was, the former spy remarks, "an extraordinary situation." He regularly consults with US government agencies on Russian matters, and near the start of July on his own initiativewithout the permission of the US company that hired himhe sent a report he had written for that firm to a contact at the FBI, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates, who asked not to be identified. (He declines to identify the FBI contact.) The former spy says he concluded that the information he had collected on Trump was "sufficiently serious" to share with the FBI.
Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer's conversations with Russian sources, noted, "Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance." It maintained that Trump "and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals." It claimed that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him." It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on "bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls."
The former intelligence officer says the response from the FBI was "shock and horror." The FBI, after receiving the first memo, did not immediately request additional material, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates. Yet in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession and for him to explain how the material had been gathered and to identify his sources. The former spy forwarded to the bureau several memossome of which referred to members of Trump's inner circle. After that point, he continued to share information with the FBI. "It's quite clear there was or is a pretty substantial inquiry going on," he says.
"This is something of huge significance, way above party politics," the former intelligence officer comments. "I think [Trump's] own party should be aware of this stuff as well."
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You mean Rolling Stone’s U-Va rape story?
Their motto is, “If it’s broke, don’t fix it!”
What do you make of this? =>
The Russian Embassy in London sent a mysterious tweet saying: Christopher Steele story: MI6 officers are never ex: briefing both ways against Russia and US President
I mean..you simply CAN NOT, make this stuff up and get it any better.
He... Is... David... CORNHOLIO!!!
I also see from that link that I'm not the only one reminded of Nigergate: Patrick Cockburn: Dodgy dossier is reminiscent of Saddam's supposed WMDs.
I unearthed this on FreeRepublic and I didn’t post it, because it is Motherearth.
What is missing is the reference to Harry Fraud
Please.
This is to take the focus off Hillary and Podestas Uranium One quid pro quo deal.
She and her minions are the only ones with proven ties to Russia. For a known sweetheart deal.
This is total bs.
I searched for it and I didn’t see it. And yes, Harry Reid is also part of this story.
and only my wife thinks they’re out to get us....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3513376/posts?page=15#15
bump for fake news refernce
Thanks, I saw a thread on that article earlier but I missed your post!—I see the scent of Joe Wilson’s Nigerian mint tea did not got undetected. Also see Posts #24 and #27 in this thread.
Missing in this discussion: what about Saudi elites trying to co-opt and assist Obama and Hillary over the years. Is there not clear evidence this happened, and is this not relevant to those trying to link Trump to Russia?
Well, the Saudis allegedly financed part of Obama’s college career, and they pledged $20 million or so to the Clinton Foundation, so you could make a case for them having some influence over the Obama-Clinton policy towards Iran, Syria, and Israel, which in turn could influence their Russian policy to the extent Russia is involved in the Middle East.
Of course they don’t bother to mention that the brilliant intelligence guy sat in a pub writing this fiction. He contacted no ne in Russia
David Corn is and has been a hard left gazoonie for years. Mother Jones isn’t even a good beer coaster.
Yawn.
Executives who have business interests in foreign countries have sophisticated and meaningful exchanges with foreign governments and foreign executives in order to facilitate business.
Better contacts than the government hacks manage. Period.
It’s for generating profits.
LOL! Thanx for the pic! 😀
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