Posted on 05/18/2018 2:13:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump's allegation that the Department of Justice put a "spy" inside his presidential campaign to frame him is being widely dismissed as absurd by current and former law enforcement officials.
But it would not be absurd to think the FBI might have sent informants to speak to suspects in their counterintelligence investigation into whether anyone in the Trump orbit was working with Russia to interfere in the presidential election. In fact, it would have been accepted procedure for the FBI.
"The notion of fully embedded government operatives inside a campaign is hard to imagine under these circumstances," said Frank Figliuzzi, a former head of FBI counterintelligence and an NBC News national security analyst. "What is easier to imagine is the FBI trying to flesh out information on Russian intelligence operatives by making approaches to campaign staffers if the reasonable suspicion was there and the approvals were in place."
The goal, Figliuzzi said, "would be to try to determine the degree to which Russian intelligence services were targeting the campaign, and whether any campaign officials were receptive to that targeting."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
No doubt there were all kinds of FBI spies in the Hillary Campaign, given the Uranium deal, the mishandling of classified information, campaign money from Saudi Arabia, among other things...
In other words, they did it, but it was ok, and we will tell you the way it should be spun.
They tried to entrap low level people.
They were using numbers of illegal tactics to try and entrap members of the campaign. John Kerry and John Mccain also aided the coup attempt.
reprobates attempting dissimulation.
I thought the WaPoo said it.
“The notion of fully embedded government operatives inside a campaign is hard to imagine under these circumstances,” said Frank Figliuzzi, a former head of FBI counterintelligence and an NBC News national security analyst. “What is easier to imagine is the FBI trying to flesh out information on Russian intelligence operatives by making approaches to campaign staffers if the reasonable suspicion was there and the approvals were in place.”
This is what Stefan Halper was trying to do with Carter Page when Halper approached Page at a conference in the UK. Halper, in this role, would have been an “informant” rather than an embedded “spy,” a technical distinction that has no practical importance in this context.
They seem to be preparing the ground for the country to learn that there were multiple government spies working the Trump campaign.
My money is on the mysterious Maltese Professor who fed Papadop the rumor that the Russians had Hillary's emails.
And Agent 13 in the Trump campaign trash can.
Our agencies penetrated a presidential campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Those involved in this should be executed or face life in prison.
This is absolutely the act of a police state.
^ What “Halper was *allegedly* trying to do ...”
I have to be careful to use weasel words here or the Deep State may come knocking at my IP address.
Was there “really” a spy?
Well, there is former Director of Intelligence James Clapper, who said Thursday night on CNN that it was “a good thing” there was an FBI informant spying on the Trump campaign.
So yeah, NBC “spews,” it’s kinda looking that way...
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-18/clapper-its-good-thing-fbi-was-spying-trump-campaign
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“Sure Obama spied on Trump’s campaign, but it was for the good of the country”
“The notion of fully embedded government operatives inside a campaign is hard to imagine under these circumstances,” said Frank Figliuzzi, a former head of FBI counterintelligence and an NBC News national security analyst. “What is easier to imagine is the FBI trying to flesh out information on Russian intelligence operatives by making approaches to campaign staffers if the reasonable suspicion was there and the approvals were in place.”
A distinction without a difference
It wasn't
and the approvals were in place."
They weren't.
Here is a notion “Journalists”.
Stop trying to spin the story as “Trumps theory” and simply report the facts that are being brought out about the spying on Trump’s campaign.
How about you report the facts and let your viewers/readers decide instead of trying to falsely represent this as “just Trump’s theory”?
This is a prime example Fake News of WHY you are failing.
As TheDCNF reported exclusively in March, Halper and George Papadopoulos met several times over a period of a few days in Sept. 2016. Several days earlier, Halper contacted and met with a third Trump campaign official. That official, who has requested anonymity, told TheDCNF that Halper expressed interest in helping the campaign.
Maybe Bannon was the anonymous official who turned him down? Manafort was gone by then.
NBC “News” still digging in the poop searching for a ray of sunshit.
No comments at this site either. Figures.
Just CYA for being caught red handed.
“A distinction without a difference”
Yes, that’s what I wrote, above:
” ..a technical distinction that has no practical importance in this context.”
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