Posted on 03/22/2017 7:59:36 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Washington (CNN)The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.
This is partly what FBI Director James Comey was referring to when he made a bombshell announcement Monday before Congress that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, according to one source.
The FBI is now reviewing that information, which includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings, according to those U.S. officials. The information is raising the suspicions of FBI counterintelligence investigators that the coordination may have taken place, though officials cautioned that the information was not conclusive and that the investigation is ongoing.
In his statement on Monday Comey said the FBI began looking into possible coordination between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives because the bureau had gathered "a credible allegation of wrongdoing or reasonable basis to believe an American may be acting as an agent of a foreign power."
The White House did not comment and the FBI declined to comment.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer maintained Monday after Comey's testimony that there was no evidence to suggest any collusion took place.
"Investigating it and having proof of it are two different things," Spicer said.
One law enforcement official said the information in hand suggests "people connected to the campaign were in contact and it appeared they were giving the thumbs up to release information when it was ready." But other U.S. officials who spoke to CNN say it's premature to draw that inference from the information gathered so far since it's largely circumstantial.
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(UNNAMED) US officials told CNN
Everybody drink!
CNN coordinated/colluded with Hitlerly Clinton to steal the 2016 election (first from Bernie Sanders).
Time-Lies, boycott Time-Lies-Warner-Turner
CNN and “US Officials”. ROTFL! Now all they need is to come up with a little credibility.
Now be careful! You don’t want alcohol poisoning.
Thanks for the explanation. That’s a ridiculous theory for anything criminal.
Gotta laugh here. This story is basically the same article published in the NYT a month or so back. You know, the one that relief on “wiretaps” for support. So, on the day that Nunnes blows up the meme that Trump was not under surveillance CNN recycles the NYT story.
But, notice the one difference? CNN goes out of its way to state that none of the conclusions in its article regarding collusion with Russia were reached with the use of surveillance. Oh no, it’s phone records and a “well,
Everyone just knows” or “eye witnesses.”
Sorry CNN the horses are out of the barn. Shutting the doors will avail you nothing.
We do have proof hillary and bignose did quid pro quo wit the russians on the uraium one deal while she was sos.
Podesta (who also left his laptop in a cab and was searching for it via his emails) clicked a fishing link after a tech person wrote over-abbreviated instruction telling him not to open it..which he then mis-read.
and Neera Tandeen spent most of her emails to Podesta name calling and bad mouthing Hillary, Chelsea, and every other person who was connected to the organization.
But....it was muh Russina. Stupid MSM. Stupid Podesta.
Why even post these lies from CNN?
Nothing but circumstantial evidence. This is going nowhere.
So someone exposes Hillary’s crimes and the DNCs crimes, and now they want to go after someone who they think, without proof, helped expose them, instead of going after the criminal. These people make no sense.
Very good. I was discussing with wife what would happen to these assassination promoting news organizations, so-called journalists and Hollywood hacks, if there were an assassination attempt.
Sedition comes with a cost.
“The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with SUSPECTED Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, US officials told CNN.”
You’re giving the statement too much credit.
Indicates. Associates. Suspected. Possibly.
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