A different take on Russia

[David Morris]

That dossier isn't the whole picture, not by a long shot.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52376/russia-trump-investigation/

6 Agencies Were Investigating Trump's Russia Connections Before the
DossierFuture
historians will be amazed we inaugurated this man.
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…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 Trump's campaign or
his business empire and of multiple individuals from Russia and other
former Soviet nations who had similar connections, the sources said. U.S.
intelligence agencies not only have been unanimous in blaming Russia for
the hacking of Democrats' computers but also have concluded that the
leaking and dissemination of thousands of emails of top Democrats, some of
which caused headaches for the Clinton campaign, were done to help Trump
win.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Am 17.01.2017 um 22:14 schrieb David Morris:
>
>> Matt Tabbi is the tits!
>>
>> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-russia-sto
>> ry-reaches-a-crisis-point-w460806
>>
>> This is an extraordinary story. If our intelligence community really
>> believes this, then playtime is over.
>>
>> No more Clapper-style hedging or waffling. If Israel gets to hear why
>> they think Trump is compromised, how is the American public not also so
>> entitled?
>>
>> But if all they have are unverifiable rumors, they can't do this, not
>> even to Donald Trump.
>>
>> The only solution is an immediate unveiling of all the facts and an
>> urgent public investigation. A half-assed whispering campaign a week and
>> a half from a Trump presidency, with BuzzFeed at the center of the
>> action, isn't going to cut it. We need to know what the likes of Clapper
>> and Comey know, and we need it all now, before it's too late.
>>
>
> Yes. Taibbi is right. By all means, do investigate.
>
> He is also right in essentially calling the DNI report a joke.
>
> Which means that we still don't know whether Misha and Grisha hacked the
> DNC.
>
> What we do know however is that two other countries have tried to
> influence the elections. The UK (if it is true that Steele asked for
> permission to share the dossier about Trump with the FBI and that Downing
> Street was informed about this):
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/britain-dragged-
> donald-trump-dirty-dossier-row-amid-claims-whitehall/
>
> And, of course, the Ukraine:
>
> http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump
> -backfire-233446
>
> (For much more on this and added historical context, see Taibbi's former
> collaborator Mark Ames:
>
> http://www.alternet.org/media/anonymous-blacklist-promoted-w
> ashington-post-has-shocking-roots-ukrainian-fascism-eugenics-and)
>
> I expect an outcry. Not.
>
>
>
>
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