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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*******BREAKING******Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates
WASHINGTON American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said.
The continuing counterintelligence investigation means that Mr. Trump will take the oath of office on Friday with his associates under investigation and after the intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government had worked to help elect him. As president, Mr. Trump will oversee those agencies and have the authority to redirect or stop at least some of these efforts.
It is not clear whether the intercepted communications had anything to do with Mr. Trumps campaign, or Mr. Trump himself. It is also unclear whether the inquiry has anything to do with an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committees computers and other attempts to disrupt the elections in November. The American government has concluded that the Russian government was responsible for a broad computer hacking campaign, including the operation against the D.N.C.
The counterintelligence investigation centers at least in part on the business dealings that some of the president-elects past and present advisers have had with Russia. Mr. Manafort has done business in Ukraine and Russia. Some of his contacts there were under surveillance by the National Security Agency for suspected links to Russias Federal Security Service, one of the officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region&_r=0
GP6971
(31,212 posts)very interesting
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Finallly, I figured out a way I can stand to say his name.
Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. Traitor Trump. ...
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)More will come.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Calm down! Not everyone can bet on inauguration day. We may have to break it up by hour.
Secondarily, how many of his staffers will be arrested during his administration? No, you can't all bet on "all of them."
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Not fair! Fake rules. Sad.
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)You know how they will bet 1 dollar less or 1 dollar more than the previous contestant? I say "all but one" instead of "all of them".
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)He will get to say it in a couple of months.
David Williams
(6 posts)I believe the whole boatload of deplorables, Trump, Pence, cabinet members, should be stripped of their position when it's proven that the election was altered by the Russians in favor of Trump. Nobody in Trump's illigitimate presidency should benefit from this Russian invasion. Pence should NOT assume he's going to slide into home base without a fight. He's as big of a fraud as Trump is, and they should all be punished.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)I think the Republicans grudgingly got behind him because they knew he would be impeached and they'd get Pence.
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)So when (not if) Trump halts investigations tomorrow the information is in the hands of agencies that can finish carrying out the job....and those agencies have to be out of Trump's tiny hands so they need to be NON USA based agencies/investigators and journalists.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)Spread it far and wide to all allies as backup, I say. It benefits our allies to get him out of office. I remember reading pre election that our allies' intel people were also looking into his background because what happens here could screw them, also. Pence sucks also but maybe he is not outright crazy/unstable.
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)nt
keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)burrowowl
(17,648 posts)world wide wally
(21,755 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)lancelyons
(988 posts)Trump has the power to squash the FBI and CIa investigations and the senate do not have to actively investigate either. Somebody inside needs to keep going and leaking.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)coeur_de_lion
(3,684 posts)about harmless emails when this guy was colluding with Russia.
To quote Trump,
"A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair!"