2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHarry Reid was right!!--FBI is investigating Trump ties to Russia.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-making-inquiry-ex-trump-campaign-manager-s-foreign-ties-n675881Word of the inquiry, which has not blossomed into a full-blown criminal investigation, comes just days after FBI Director James Comey's disclosure that his agency is examining a new batch of emails connected to an aide to Hillary Clinton.
And it comes a day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized Comey's revelation and asserted that Comey possesses "explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government."
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Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, regularly receives sensitive briefings. Schiff said he could not discuss Reid's assertions, but he said, "Americans have every right to be concerned about what they see in terms of Trump advisors and their closeness with the Kremlin, Trump's policies vis-a-vis Russia, Trump's potential financial interest, all of those things ought to be of deep concern to voters."
vadermike
(1,417 posts)I hope the media covers this
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)vadermike
(1,417 posts)Fucj these Fuckers HRC campaign will seize on this
senseandsensibility
(17,138 posts)I'm on the westcoast and won't see any nbc news for a couple of hours.
randr
(12,415 posts)The .man has two court dates coming up. One for fraud and one for rape. How does this not command the news?
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)placed a gag order on the media for reporting these stories. Too prejudicial for someone who is innocent until proven guilty.
That's what makes the FBI Director's blurting out about new emails he hasn't even seen yet even worse. These emails have to already been reviewed by the FBI because they would have gone to all of her devices assuming they were work emails. They were on the Clinton server so they have to already have reviewed them. It was a Bush league move that I hope he pays dearly for!!!
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)and co. for Russia interference.
vadermike
(1,417 posts)Will cover it CNN especially They like to do both sides bullshit so in this case yeah they will MSNBC probably will too cause NBC news broke it it fits Reid's framing ! Yay for Harry !
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)with the disclosure of Trumps Organization E-Mail ties to Russian Servers,times are starting to get real interesting.
Comey's ass is grass and Folks the Justice Department are the Lawn Mower. Will tomorrow bring Comey and Trump ties out in the open?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He was more afraid of Jason Chaffetz than he was of Hillary Clinton.
Stupid fucker he is.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Guy has a nasty track record in Utah of using false statements and out right lies to further his Political Career.
And you just know,the Clinton Camp will tear Comey to shreds after this. This Slug cost them Millions in Legal fees brought on by this sucker. Read about the Arkansas Project. When things do not go the way some major Corporation wants,they will work to no end to punish any
one who challenges them.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Let's investigate comey's ties to Russia?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)have made a public statement like he did with that letter to Comey without having facts to bavk it up.
Give em Hell Harry! And thank you
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Where are the Breaking News banners????
IronLionZion
(45,531 posts)It's like Trump's people are cold war era double agents using the Russians to manipulate US elections.
Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave. How can Trumpers still support this nonsense?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)William769
(55,148 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...look like small potatoes. And I've always thought the Chennault business was the most godawful piece of treachery imaginable--even for Tricky. We're talking about a candidate for president of a major party openly collaborating with a hostile foreign dictatorship. This isn't technically treason--we aren't at war with Putin's Russia. But morally, in some ways it's worse than the Constitutional definition of treason.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)
Soon, the New York Times Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers began chasing the story. (They are still pursuing it.) Lichtblau met with a Washington representative of Alfa Bank on Sept. 21, and the bank denied having any connection to Trump. (Lichtblau told me that Times policy prevents him from commenting on his reporting.)
The Times hadnt yet been in touch with the Trump campaignLichtblau spoke with the campaign a week laterbut shortly after it reached out to Alfa, the Trump domain name in question seemed to suddenly stop working. When the scientists looked up the host, the DNS server returned a fail message, evidence that it no longer functioned. Or as it is technically diagnosed, it had SERVFAILed. (On the timeline above, this is the moment at the end of the chronology when the traffic abruptly spikes, as servers frantically attempt to resend rejected messages.) The computer scientists believe there was one logical conclusion to be drawn: The Trump organization shut down the server after Alfa was told that the Times might expose the connection. Nicholas Weaver told me the Trump domain was very sloppily removed. Or as another of the researchers put it, it looked like the knee was hit in Moscow, the leg kicked in New York.
From:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html
Four days later, on September 27, the Trump organization created a new host name, trump1.contact-client.com, which enabled communication to the very same server via a different route. When a new host name is created, the first communication with it is never random. To reach the server after the resetting of the host name, the sender of the first inbound mail has to first learn of the name somehow. Its simply impossible to randomly reach a renamed server. That party had to have some kind of outbound message through sms, phone, or some non-internet channel they used to communicate [the new configuration], Paul Vixie told me. The first attempt to look up the revised host name came from Alfa Bank. If this was a public server, we would have seen other traces, Vixie says. The only look-ups came from this particular source.
According to Vixie and others, the new host name may have represented an attempt to establish a new channel of communication. But media inquiries into the nature of Trumps relationship with Alfa Bank, which suggested that their communications were being monitored, may have deterred the parties from using it. Soon after the New York Times began to ask questions, the traffic between the servers stopped cold.
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interesting. I wonder if they tried to get search warrant for said server(s)
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-campaign-lobbyist-russian-pipeline-229264
But a senior US government official not involved in this case but familiar with the former spy tells Mother Jones that he has been a credible source with a proven record of providing reliable, sensitive, and important information to the US government.
In June, the former Western intelligence officerwho spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clientswas assigned the task of researching Trump's dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)cheezmaka
(737 posts)Kablooie
(18,641 posts)We wouldn't want the public to know that Trump is committing treason until after he's elected president.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)He uses the FBI like his own private dirty tricks operation.
jaxind
(1,074 posts)With all this suspicion about Trump and ties to Russia, we should be able to file a subpoena for Trump's tax returns, right??!!