A different take on Russia

[Keith Davis]

And on and on...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html?emc=edit_na_20170119&nl=breaking-news&nlid=61314239&ref=cta&_r=0

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:25 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-d
>> onald-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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