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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What the Hell American Spies?
I wonder how many attorney’s of Nigerian princes our guys have sent money to?
Leak and spin. Someone in the Deep State is really worried about something that is about to come out.
Our CIA couldn’t find a Back guy in Harlem.
BLACK GUY IN HARLEM!
“... intelligence officials said... were fearful of political fallout in Washington if they were seen to be buying scurrilous information on the president..”
But they WERE trying to buy scurrilous information on the Prewdient. It’s obvious that they were willing to make a down payment before seeing any versifiable proof.
Holy crikies. Every time I cached the news, I feel like I need a shower. Can this cesspool ever be redeemed?
Deep state looking to get sexual blackmail material on Trump. There’s a lot more to come....
government employees are dipshits.
they are just like those we see at the DMV
To bad no one paid the Russians for BO’s background.
Maybe this is why Dems are broke
The fake New York Times story is a fabrication. Some of the crimes involving the foreign Steele effort along with domestic efforts to subvert our election process and U.S. Government were committed before last year.
Soo... how many fed people have to sign off before we can supply $1,000,000 to a random Russian in an blatant extortion scheme?
I seriously want to know the proces; all the way down to signing out the cash and who paid for the bag.
(Restitution, out of pocket, is called for here)
“Because crap is about to break and this is a preemptive strike...”
I’m thinking along the same lines as you are. Good comment, fuente.
I’ve been waiting for when the NYTimes or Amazon Post would finally have to report something....
Ladies and gentlemen. We have , after Trump took office, the deep state CIA/FBI paying a down payment of $100,000 on a 1 million dollar bribe OF TAX PAYER MONEY to RUSSIANS to get sex dirt on our president!! ( completely disregard all bull shit about “cyber weapons”). I speculate this was about to blow from the IG report and the NYT has tried to obfuscate this treason !! They are trying to defuse and propagandize clear treason that should result in public hangings!!n This NOW DEMANDS OUR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!! OUTRAGEOUS!!!
psyops!
for once a story u’d expect to see attributed to multiple writers, but there’s only one - Matthew Rosenberg, ex-WSJ journo who wrote the following with Fusion GPS’s Glenn R. Simpson:
2008: WSJ: Money Eludes Pakistan’s Crackdown on Accused Terror Group
by By Matthew Rosenberg in Islamabad and Glenn R. Simpson in Washington
Wikipedia: Matthew Rosenberg: He previously wrote about Afghanistan and Pakistan for the paper, but was expelled from Afghanistan in August 2014 on the orders of President Hamid Karzai
Rosenberg currently covers national security and intelligence for the Times from Washington. He has been one of the main reporters at the paper covering the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, and whether any associates of President Trump sought to collude with the Russian effort...
On November 5, 2009, The Nation newspaper in Pakistan printed a front page story that falsely accused Rosenberg of being a spy. The story claimed that Rosenberg worked for the CIA, the U.S. security contractor formerly known as Blackwater and had ties to Israeli intelligence.” Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson wrote to the editor of The Nation, Shireen Mazari, to protest the false story about Rosenberg soon after the article appeared...
Oh look -- an obvious BS cover story, offered at long long last by none other than the DNC's own New York Slimes.
The entire episode, if true, is the stuff of parody and Monty Python movies. The Dems are desperate to establish the Russian collusion narrative. Warner and Schiff are going rogue contacting Russians to prove this ridiculous connection. The world has gone mad.
wonderful work. Rosenburg dispatched by traitorous CIA to take steam out of this bombshell that after Trump took office the deep state used tax payer money to buy sex dirt on a sitting president!! I want public hangings!! Totally disregart the bull shit crap about cyber weapons— that is NOT what they were doing!! We need PROSECUTION FOR TREASON!!!
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