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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-intel agent says Trump team damned itself by ignoring FBI on Russia: 'We're going to keep...
Ex-intel agent says Trump team damned itself by ignoring FBI on Russia: Were going to keep that as evidenceDAVID EDWARDS
18 DEC 2017 AT 14:33 ET
A former counterintelligence agent says that President Donald Trumps former campaign team may be in deep trouble after they ignored FBI warnings that Russia would try to infiltrate the campaign. NBC News reported on Monday that weeks after Trump became the 2016 Republican nominee for president, the FBI notified the campaign that foreign agents, including Russians, would try to spy on and infiltrate his campaign.
Former FBI counterintelligence agent Frank Montoya told NBC that Trumps campaign team would have been told, If you see these kinds of contacts please let us know about them so we can keep you updated on the threat picture.
Although members of the Trump team had repeated contacts with Russians after the FBI warnings, officials with the campaign reportedly never notified law enforcement authorities.
If I give you a defensive briefing and the illicit behavior continues, Im not going to just scratch my head over that, especially if I see continued interference, Montoya explained. If were telling these guys stuff and they are not acting on it, then were going to keep that as evidence.
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Ex-intel agent says Trump team damned itself by ignoring FBI on Russia: 'We're going to keep... (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2017
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Turbineguy
(37,361 posts)1. So then the only way out
is if somebody (not Donald Trump himself) decided to stop keeping Trump informed. That way everybody except Trump, goes to jail.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. Too late for that
They thought they could get away with it if they owned the intelligence agencies.
localroger
(3,629 posts)3. They forgot that nobody owns the intelligence agencies
Something several Presidents have found out the hard way.
tanyev
(42,594 posts)4. Trump campaign: Don't bother, they're here.