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F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016
NY TIMES ^

Posted on 05/02/2019 10:37:49 AM PDT by navysealdad

The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia? The woman had set up the meeting to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was actually a government investigator posing as a research assistant, according to people familiar with the operation. The F.B.I. sent her to London as part of the counterintelligence inquiry

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201609; azraturk; bhodoj; binney; cia; fbi; halper; papadopoulos; russia; spies; spooks; stefanahalper; stefanhalper; trump2016; turk
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To: navysealdad

Mifsud planted the information (the Russians have dirt etc) and Halper tried to harvest it. That failed, he was annoyed that Papa wasn’t forthcoming... later they succeeded with the Aussie ambassador. They make that out to be a big deal.

But it isn’t. If Mifsud’s report was real, (which it was not, his claim to have been in Russia was false), if it was real, there is still no crime in repeating gossip.

All the Russians were plants. The infamous “Russian lawyer” was Fusion, brought in by the Obama DOJ. They have tried to make out that contact with her was criminal, but even if she was legit and actually had dirt on Clinton, talking to her was not criminal. This whole thing is riddled with setups and non-crimes.


21 posted on 05/02/2019 11:00:18 AM PDT by marron
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To: hardspunned

I will NEVER go on Twitter....can you give me a Reader’s Digest version?


22 posted on 05/02/2019 11:02:08 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: navysealdad

SHE WAS SENT THERE TO GIVE THEM A REASON TO INVESTIGATE.

It was a SET-UP.

No Popadopulous meeting with our own FBI ‘spies’, and there is no Russia Collusion investigation or special counsel.


23 posted on 05/02/2019 11:04:43 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: lodi90
Here come more preemptive spin leaks from Team Kenya to friendly media outlets. Must be getting close to the FISA IG report.

Haha! The Tell-Tale Heart!

Let's just keep hanging the investigation report over their heads and they'll out themselves out of fear. It will make the investigation report moot.

24 posted on 05/02/2019 11:09:40 AM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: navysealdad

And one moron in the comments section wrote [paraphrasing] “How can you Republicans blame Obama for not investigating Russia, and in the same breath condemn him for this investigation”

THERE WERE NO RUSSIANS INVOLVED here.

It was OUR OWN GOVERNMENT creating a SET-UP to give Obama and HilLIARy justification for spying on the Trump campaign.


25 posted on 05/02/2019 11:10:32 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Ann Archy
I will NEVER go on Twitter

You don't need a Twitter account to read a tweet. You can just click on the link and read it. Twitter won't capture you.

26 posted on 05/02/2019 11:10:40 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: richardtavor

Note the Times did not mention Downer’s Clinton links or how he happened to bump into Papa in a bar. Papa was likely set up by Obama FBI or CIA station agents or by MI5/6 acting on their behalf. There are obvious reasons this all went down in foreign country. None of this is a coincidence.


27 posted on 05/02/2019 11:12:12 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: hardspunned
Papadopoulos’ tweet - I agree with everything in this superb article except “Azra Turk” clearly was not FBI. She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with

CIA huh? Brennan..........

28 posted on 05/02/2019 11:13:23 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: navysealdad

For the NYT to be publishing this means the mustard is about to come off the hot dog. But if a cleansing wave of truth and associated prosecutions were coming soon, Congressional Democrats would be trying to subvert it by acting like rabid hounds at hearings and barking for AG Barr to resign. Oh, wait...


29 posted on 05/02/2019 11:14:08 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: navysealdad
I wonder if this was her (twitter account suspended)?


30 posted on 05/02/2019 11:14:16 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: navysealdad
George is tweeting about this now..he confirms the story is true..the TRUTH is slowly slowly coming out that not even the Slimes can hide it..Barr knows ALL OF IT which is why the commies are going to try and spin it: George Papadopoulos ‏ @GeorgePapa19 32m32 minutes ago George Papadopoulos Retweeted Mark Mazzetti I agree with everything in this superb article except “Azra Turk” clearly was not FBI. She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with
31 posted on 05/02/2019 11:16:55 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: outpostinmass2
This kills Mueller’s report on when the investigation began. In fact this completely kills the whole Russian collusion charge.

This was a Sep 2016 honeypot, not a spring of 2016 honeypot..

32 posted on 05/02/2019 11:17:21 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: BeauBo

LOL. Classic honey pot.


33 posted on 05/02/2019 11:18:07 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Crossfire Hurricane was a multi-agency investigation by the Obama administration to gather “evidence” against Trump so that a Crooked Hillary administration could destroy Trump, his family, his business, and his associates.”

Yes. Most definitely. Hillary alluded to this in comments she made during the campaign about Trump going to jail. Her hatred is sociopathic.

34 posted on 05/02/2019 11:20:08 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: navysealdad

This is all so twisted.

I still think this should eventually be made into a TV miniseries, with central characters literally wearing hats in every episode — let’s actually watch White Hats and Black hats (and does anyone switch their hat color halfway through the story?).

It would help clarify things is we could see some sleazy guy in a black hat making a big speech about how patriotic he is, how wonderful the FBI is, how he’s just trying to find the truth, etc., etc.

The public is never going to truly grasp the details of this tawdry affair. But we need to find a way to show people “this group of people were treasonous criminals” and “this group of people were upholding the rule of law”.


35 posted on 05/02/2019 11:21:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: neverevergiveup

I am wondering who else the Dims were spying on.

Don’t think it was just Trump.


36 posted on 05/02/2019 11:24:14 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: navysealdad

Gee, like a Spy?


37 posted on 05/02/2019 11:24:33 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

We were so alarmed, we kept sending fake Russian agents to sell/give to the Trump team. And they just didn’t cooperate. But we had to spy on them as a result of their guys not taking the bait. Because maybe they would have taken the bait. Even the doofus oldest son talked to our Russian asset in his office. So we know they must’ve been up to something with real Russians who were not cooperating with us.

Just wow. Those folks thought they were so smart. Oh wait. They never thought they would lose, so they did not cover their tracks until after the fact when it was too late. And that darn Admiral Rogers spilled the beans. Then they had to release the pee pee dossier to the media in order to cover their tracks. BUT ONLY LUNATICS BELIEVED THAT GARBAGE.


38 posted on 05/02/2019 11:26:43 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: navysealdad

Nellie Ohr is the key!!! She ran off book ops for Brennan. She put all this together at his direction...


39 posted on 05/02/2019 11:27:14 AM PDT by databoss
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To: EVO X

I know, I realize that. So much spying.


40 posted on 05/02/2019 11:28:25 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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