Interesting article but it is biased against president Trump.
As I interpret this article, the NYT feels the FBI handled Trump with kid gloves but was unfairly brutal in their handling of Hillary Clinton.
mmmmmmmm-okay.
This was deliberate to keep the investigation compartmentalized, away from anyone who might ask WTF are you guys doing?
I’m sure they chose that name because he played the Rolling Sones at his rallies.
Now I’m remembering that Time cover with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, looking like he’s in a hurricane, and I wonder how much journalists already knew about (and were supportive of) this scheme.
Australia got played. I hope they understand just how badly they look now and understand now, how meddling in internal politics is wrong in all cases. They need to make it up to the Trump administration.
They screwed us with mooselimb rapugees, and they needled with the election. Not seeming much like our friends to me.
Did the name come from a Rolling Stones song?
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
But it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas!
But it’s all right. I’m jumpin jack flash,
Its a gas! Gas! Gas!
This s soooooooo BOGUS!
Papadopoulos was SET UP BY THE FBI to spill his drunk ass guts to the Aussie diplomat.
They knew, (The top FBI, not necessarily the agents themselves), what the Aussie had to say because they set him up to say it..................
Still claiming that the Trump investigation was triggered by Papadapoulis wine induced “revelation” to Aussie diplomat. Nothing new here folks.
The conspiracy is fallng apart and there is going to be hell to pay for all the conspirators as far as 5 levels down clerk typists
The fact that our “newspaper of record” is hopelessly biased against our sitting President is deeply disturbing. Here’s a quote from the article:
“A year and a half later, no public evidence has surfaced connecting Mr. Trump’s advisers to the hacking or linking Mr. Trump himself to the Russian government’s disruptive efforts. But the article’s tone and headline — ‘Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia’ — gave an air of finality to an investigation that was just beginning.”
Democrats say that article pre-emptively exonerated Mr. Trump, dousing chances to raise questions about the campaign’s Russian ties before Election Day.”
Do they not see how ridiculous that sounds. If the article was (honestly) written today, it would say the exact same thing: “Investigating Donald Trump (for nearly two years), F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia”. Yet it “pre-emptively exonerated Mr. Trump”? How can an ostensibly intelligent person even write/edit something as asinine as that?
Because Trump denied Nunes and Gowdy the ability to break the story and explain its duplicitous nature, the New York Times, beat them to the punch and spin it the Democrat way. Good work, Donald.
MOCKINGBIRD
“There is always a high degree of caution before taking overt steps in a counterintelligence investigation,” said Ms. McCord, who would not discuss details of the case. “And that could have worked to the president’s benefit here.”
If there was any caution at all in this case, it was not because they were naturally careful. It was because they knew they did not have enough information to justify an investigation of the Trump Campaign, yet they’d been ordered to conduct that investigation. They were playing with fire, and they knew it.
Wow! A special access program to deny knowledge of a conspiracy to take down Trump. First, Page and Deep Stroke are in trouble just for talking about it in an open foru. More to the point, using a SAP to cover up an illegal conspiracy is illegal.
FTA: who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling
Actually, that's not accurate. Papadopoulos was told by Professor Mifsud in April 2016 that the Russians had Hillary emails. Past tense. Not that Russia would in the future be hacking the DNC or John Podesta.
The obvious implication of what Mifsud actually said in April 2016 would be that Russia must have hacked Hillary's unsecure bathroom server. Hence the misdirection.
Remember, the Australian diplomat learned about this in May. Why did they wait until July to tell the US government? Wouldn't we want to know in April/May that Russia may have hacked Hillary's bathroom server?
Truth be told, Brennan, MI6 and GCHQ probably did know in April and May all about what was going on with Mifsud, Downer and Papadopoulos.
But after Wikileaks revealed that they had DNC emails in July, then the plotters realized they could push this info into the FBI, misleading the FBI into opening an investigation into the Trump campaign, perhaps get a FISA warrant and start flowing political dirt into Susan Rice and the entire Obama/Hillary superstructure.
This is one of numerous dishonest sleights-of-hand we have seen in this plot.
Another sleight-of-hand used by Brennan and Comey was that they used Hillary's Steele dossier because of the credibility of Steele.
But in sworn testimony to defend himself from defamation charges in a London court, Steele asserted that he never vouched for the dossier. He had no idea if the contents were true or not.
Yet the dossier was used to obtain a FISA Title 1 warrant on a Trump campaign advisor and was used to support an official US government intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the US election to get Trump elected.
“Crosswise Hurricane?” I love that Rolling Stones song!
NY Times (Democratic Party) is just scrambling to jump another step in front of their collapsing alibis for the origination of their illegal spying on the Trump campaign.
George Papadopoulos was a nothing to Trump’s campaign, and the NYSlimes knows it.
Legalized Sedition.