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FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump
McClatchy via Sacramento Bee ^ | January 18th, 2017 | By Peter Stone and Greg Gordon

Posted on 01/18/2017 2:45:29 PM PST by Mariner

WASHINGTON

The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter said.

The agencies involved in the inquiry are the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the director of national intelligence, the sources said.

Investigators are examining how money may have moved from the Kremlin to covertly help Trump win, the two sources said. One of the allegations involves whether a system for routinely paying thousands of Russian-American pensioners may have been used to pay some email hackers in the United States or to supply money to intermediaries who would then pay the hackers, the two sources said.

The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and unverified research about Trump, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Russia; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: fakeas3dollarbill; fakeintel; fakeintelagencies; fakenews; fakestreammedia; intelligence; russia; trump
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To: Mariner

This is bullcrap. The spook world and shadow government going to war with the president elect. This is banana republic folks.

I wonder if someday we will actually see citizens wandering the halls and rifling through files at the NSA the way Germans got to do to the Stasi, the way Russians did the old KGB records, the way we got to with Nazi records.


21 posted on 01/18/2017 2:56:38 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: Mariner

From my perspective, this reeks to high Heaven. The establishment just keeps pushing the lie about Russian interference, and fabricating evidence to support their lies, all in effort to set the table for impeachment hearings as soon as DJT is sworn in as POTUS.

Make no mistake, FReepers. This is a coup and the establishment fully intends to take back the power, control, influence and money they list when we elected DJT.

I don’t know where I heard the following quote, I think it was from a movie a few years ago, but believe it rings true:

“A man will usually tell you what he’s going to do if you just shut-up and listen to what he’s saying.”

So, if you listen to the media, DNC, Top na either intelligence agencies, they are telling us that they intend to initiate impeachment hearings ASAP, post haste, without delay.


22 posted on 01/18/2017 2:56:57 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Mariner

Dear Sacbee, FBI and 5 other agencies:

LOL.

What a gig, get paid for mental masturbation.

5.56mm


23 posted on 01/18/2017 2:57:11 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Mariner

I thought the “17 intelligence agencies” already signed off on it?


24 posted on 01/18/2017 2:58:23 PM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: Roger Kaputnik

money they list = money they lost

Damn spell check.


25 posted on 01/18/2017 2:58:34 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Iron Munro

If Trump doesn’t PURGE these diseased agencies he’s more than just mistaken, he is STUPID.


26 posted on 01/18/2017 2:59:59 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Mariner

There must be something coming out about Hillary taking money from the Russians and Obama wants to confuse the issue.


27 posted on 01/18/2017 3:01:28 PM PST by donna ('God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: Mariner

Pushin’ the meme, all day long

Until the bots start repeating it as gospel

Then make yer move

Rat playbook


28 posted on 01/18/2017 3:01:45 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Mariner

Cannot fire these bozos fast enough, IMHO.


29 posted on 01/18/2017 3:03:02 PM PST by madison10 (Pray for Israel & the Peace of Jerusalem)
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To: Mariner
FBI. Foney Baloney Intel.

1 17 54 48

30 posted on 01/18/2017 3:03:49 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: joshua c

I wonder how their investigation is progressing on all the foreign money that we know came in to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign?

There were illegal donations to Obama from all over the mid-east and other places under phony names like Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Jgtj Jfggjjfgj, Test Person, etc., etc.

See:

“Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations”
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102803413_2.html?sid=ST2008102803431

See:

“Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records”
By Michael Luo and Griff Palmer
NY Times
Oct. 9, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/politics/10donate.html


31 posted on 01/18/2017 3:04:24 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Mariner

They’ve got less than 42 to keep up their games...and to have their jobs, for that matter. Monday morning, hit the street with resumes...


32 posted on 01/18/2017 3:05:05 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: joshua c

Obama got (illegal) foreign money when he ran for POTUS, and nothing was done about that.


33 posted on 01/18/2017 3:05:36 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Mariner

How do I donate or thank the Kremlin for choosing an outstanding candidate Trump?


34 posted on 01/18/2017 3:06:07 PM PST by TheNext (REPEAL requires simple 50% Majority, not 60%)
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To: ballplayer
No wonder Hillary has gotten away with being a traitor,the whole freakin intelligence apparatus of the United States Of America has been chasing Trump and not the witch and her crooked husband.

Actually, the original investigation was about foreign(Russian) influence in the DNC PRIMARY between Obama and Hillary. It was dropped because Obama won.

This new 'dossier' and 'investigation' is just a re-write of the original report, but with TRUMP as the alleged benefactor instead of Hillary.

35 posted on 01/18/2017 3:06:34 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Roger Kaputnik

Yep, exactly. They start a slew of “investigations” so that ANYTHING President Trump does with respect to any agencies involved is a “coverup”.


36 posted on 01/18/2017 3:07:30 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Mariner

Do they really want a million of us, armed, on their doorsteps? If they seriously try to overthrow the election, that’s what they’ll get.


37 posted on 01/18/2017 3:09:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Mariner

You see it don’t matter if this is the biggest con game in the face of American history... their sole objective is to grind it deep into the brain of the American people that President Trump is illegitimate and the election stolen from Hitlery ! That is what I am beginning to hear more and more people say that the election was stolen from the beast! Yes it’s infuriating but little by little they are accomplishing their goal... that evil rats along with the global establishment and the mediapukes will pound this narrative into the minds of the stupid American people and they’ll swallow it hook line and sinker! We are living in very dangerous times now . I am beginning to see something that is really really terrifying, the making of another Civil War! If anything should happen to trump ..mark it... there will be a war inside own country and it’s not going to be pretty! Nerves are frazzled from both sides and all we need is the shoe to drop and all hell will break loose!


38 posted on 01/18/2017 3:11:14 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Mariner

Reminds me of a T-shirt based on a TV show:

Deny everything
Admit nothing
Make counter-accusations

As some said, this is a ruse to create an excuse when Trump’s investigation reveals the millions (billions?) sent to Clinton from foreign powers, a counter-accusation.

I don’t think the ruse is working.


39 posted on 01/18/2017 3:12:09 PM PST by darth
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To: Mariner

What about all the OVERT aid to Hillary in her quid pro quo deals?

What about the Sovereign Nation of MSMlandia interfering in our elections for Hillary and prior to that, Obama?

What about all the Chinese money to Al Gore?


40 posted on 01/18/2017 3:14:37 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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