2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI told you, but it goes deeper than this, Trump and his Underlings are working with Russian Spies
Well, who didn't see this one coming? It appears that Russia has a blackmail war chest on Donald Trump and the intel community included that information in their briefing last Friday.
How will Donnie spin this? No, Russia didn't hack anyone. No, they don't have anything on me. Putin is my friend!
In the bombshell report CNN breaks down how in last weeks briefings both President Obama and The Orange Menace were told that Russian operatives have "compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump."
Like, blackmail type information? Taxes? Sex tapes? Tax evasion? REALLLYYYYY?
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/cnn-intelligence-report-indicates-russia
DU was hacked by the Russians. Many of you here watch the ongoing poll counts quite well. You would have used DU as a platform to document the counting as it progressed. It would have left an interesting record if DU had stayed on line.
Notice the British intelligence knew Trump was compromised before the election.
Why did the FBI not act?
libtodeath
(2,892 posts)The entire repuke congress,because I bet they all knew,should be tried at the Hague.
UCmeNdc
(9,650 posts)The operative claimed that Russian intelligence sources said they had compromised Trump during his visits to Moscow and could blackmail him with evidence of his conduct, which included perverted sexual acts arranged and monitored by the Russian federal security service (FSB). But the Russians, the operative says in the dossier, promised not to use the kompromat they hold on Trump as leverage, given high levels of voluntary cooperation forthcoming from his team.
Justice
(7,198 posts)From link -
"Even going back to the summer, there were whispers about what Russia had on the RNC and Trump in particular. The difference is that now the intelligence agencies have checked out the rumors and have found the sources to be credible."
Why didn't intelligence agencies check out rumors over the summer? Isn't that what intelligence lives for - investigating these types of rumors?
We know FBI unsuccessfully sought FISA warrants twice over the summer based on Russia/RNC/Trump. Why were they unsuccessful? They didn't have enough probably cause to get warrant - why? Did some at the FBI have facts that others pursuing the warrant did not have?
The story of McCain giving former British operative's reports to Comey in December - Comey did not have them before that but other stories suggest that some within the FBI may have had them. Is that true? Why? Wouldn't that sort of information be immediately escalated to top?
People kept screaming about Trump's sole change in RNC platform to back off Crimea - why was that not treated by media and intelligence as substantive issue?
Hillary kept saying Trump was Putin's puppet. Why was that not treated by media and intelligence as substantive issue?
David Corn's October piece - was that based on the former British operative's reports or something else? Where did David get it from?
I am leaving things out for sure but these are my initial questions.