Posted on 02/09/2018 4:20:17 PM PST by springwater13
After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.
The cash, delivered in a suitcase to a Berlin hotel room in September, was intended as the first installment of a $1 million payout, according to American officials, the Russian and communications reviewed by The New York Times. The theft of the secret hacking tools had been devastating to the N.S.A., and the agency was struggling to get a full inventory of what was missing.
Several American intelligence officials said they made clear that they did not want the Trump material from the Russian — who was suspected of having murky ties to Russian intelligence and to Eastern European cybercriminals. He claimed the information would link the president and his associates to Russia. But instead of providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced unverified and possibly fabricated information involving Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and purported Russian intelligence data.
The United States intelligence officials said they cut off the deal because they were wary of being entangled in a Russian operation to create discord inside the American government. They were also fearful of political fallout in Washington if they were seen to be buying scurrilous information on the president.
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Let me fix this....democrat spies...
I really need to start setting up my russian alias on facebook or something.
I need some cred in order to pick up some quick cash during the next election.
Why does this story sound like a complete and total fabrication?
Sounds like Comey or Schiff could have written it.
I had a hard time reading it with a straight face
*** FAKE NEWS ***
Our intelligence agencies are so desperate for dirt on Trump they paid a Russian fraudster $100K.
It’s very believable.
NYT FAKE
Because crap is about to break and this is a preemptive strike...to discredit as old news and already debunked.
Really? $100,000 for a copy of the stolen cyber weapon guys? They still have a copy..... duh!
> promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons
Did he promise to delete his other copies?
...United States intelligence officials said they cut off the deal because they were wary of being entangled in a Russian operation to create discord inside the American government. They were also fearful of political fallout in Washington if they were seen to be buying scurrilous information on the president...
The intelligence officials obviously weren’t FBI. They would have paid cash on the spot and immediately leaked to the press.
We all know the swamp wants President Trump gone so this is very believable. We know that the Govt despises Trump..President Trump said he would drain the swamp, he had NO idea how infested it is
Just confirms how easy is was for Clinton-Fusion GPS-Steele to play US “intelligence agencies.”
What a bunch of fools and suckers.
Yeah, did I miss something? It sure seems the dam is about to break if the NYT is covering stuff like this. I don’t see how this helps Democrats.
well knock me over with a feather.....
btt
This is right out of James Obondo!
“Cody Shearer, an American political operative with ties to the Democratic Party, has been crisscrossing Eastern Europe for more than six months to secure the purported kompromat from a different Russian”
This doesn’t surprise me. Dem Senators trying to do the same thing ==> Mission Impossible since it doesn’t exist!
Starting to get the feeling that this Russia hysteria fever is actually starting to break.
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