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Justice

(7,188 posts)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 04:01 PM Jan 2017

FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump

Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau

"The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and unverified research about Trump, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry."


"The BBC reported last week that the joint inquiry was launched when the CIA learned last spring, through a Baltic ally, of a recording indicating the Russian government was planning to funnel funds aimed at influencing the U.S. election."

"A key mission of the six-agency group has been to examine who financed the email hacks of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The London-based transparency group WikiLeaks released the emails last summer and in October."

"The working group is scrutinizing the activities of a few Americans who were affiliated with Trumps campaign or his business empire and of multiple individuals from Russia and other former Soviet nations who had similar connections, the sources said."



Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html





Focus is on the money - How did email hackers get paid - how could money from Russia get to email hackers.
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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. Ahhhooooga ahhhhhoooooga - Emergency. Stop the ILLEGITIMATE installation of a Fascist Con Man
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 04:14 PM
Jan 2017

...and his Russian SympCronies in the Republican House and Senate.

Stop the TREASONOUS KGOP takeover of America now.

herding cats

(19,564 posts)
2. Somehow in all this I'd missed/forgotten this bit.
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 04:14 PM
Jan 2017
Cohen has denied ever traveling to the Czech Republic, although he told The Wall Street Journal that he did so in 2001.


This is a good article! Thanks for posting.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)
6. We should also be investigating if the Trum team colluded
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 04:26 PM
Jan 2017

with the Russian hacking efforts, either by directing their activities (helping them select "targets&quot or working to find intermediaries who could pass the information off to WikiLeaks.

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
16. i've been wondering if anything has been done in that regard
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:27 AM
Jan 2017

the media keeps focusing on the "interfering" but there's been no reports i've heard of any investigation of the trump team colluding with the russians. Would love to hear our spy agencies are actually focusing on that.

Justice

(7,188 posts)
7. Article also claims Steele met with FBI in Italy - said Trump campaign official knew about hacking
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 04:32 PM
Jan 2017

"Steele, who had worked previously with the FBI and was well regarded, fed the bureau information in July and September suggesting collusion between Trump associates and Moscow in the hacking of Democratic computers, they said. Eventually, he met in Italy with an FBI official to share more information alleging that a top Trump campaign official had known about the hacking as early as last June, the sources said. "

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
8. My God, his swearing in is in 2 days! WTF?
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 04:48 PM
Jan 2017

If intelligence sat on this, delayed or obstructed, fucking treasonous heads should roll!

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
12. Exactly. Geezus. Thought they were listening to all our calls, reading our emails, etc. etc. May
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 06:56 PM
Jan 2017

be this is some covert plan to get Pence in. Like in private, the GOP is saying HELP US

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
17. GOP has our intelligence agencies on a stranglehold i'm sure
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:29 AM
Jan 2017

so that IF the report ever comes out that there is clear collusion between trump & russians, trump will be ousted but then pence becomes prez. Their underlying goal here of course is to ensure Hillary didn't get a chance. That is exactly what has happened.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
11. This just keeps going on and on
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 05:58 PM
Jan 2017

Is this inaction caused by D.C. bureaucracy, or is it because intelligence wants to find every single person involved? I hope it's the latter, but suspect it's the former.

DeminPennswoods

(15,286 posts)
15. Hayes said special counsels were appointed at the end of Bush term
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:40 PM
Jan 2017

Can the Obama DoJ appoint a special counsel to investigate as one of its last official acts?

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