NYT’s Julian Barnes, Bloomberg Opinion’s Tim O’Brien, former assistant director at the FBI Frank Figliuzzi, and former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Jim Messina on the reporting about how the CIA extracted a Russian informant for his own safety, but it left the U.S. effectively flying blind in 2020 when it comes to Russian efforts to interfere in our election
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With The Next Presidential Election Approaching, What’s Happening At The Kremlin | Deadline | MSNBC
Trump is Putin’s revenge for losing the cold war to us.
@Dean Mulready
Seriously what is your problem. Maybe off the meds?
@Dean Mulready they didn’t?? So the USSR is still intact? The world is still divided into an allegiance to one of two superpowers? That’s good news for Georgia and Ukraine so they can give up their silly dreams of sovereignty…
Trump a Russian asset and boot licker of Putin. A traitor and fool of epic failure.🤡🎪🇷🇺
@Dean Mulready
Bull***t and lies what else you got?
Gaslight someone else genius.
@Sam Brenna It’s because they have communist beliefs.
A bigger threat to our elections than Russia is the GOP!
If you want evidence of Russian interference in our elections look no further than the Ruskie trollski’s & botski’s responding & commenting nonsense.
Newsweek wrote: “Putin has tens of thousands of cyber warriors, MI6 says”.
Three Whistleblowers said, they have to write 400 propaganda comments per day. 30,000 x 260 days/year x 400 x 6.5 years x 50 readers/comment= 1,000,000,000,000 readers/hits since April 2013. ONE TRILLION. Watch these Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz8a3LuDlZU&list=PLwGgWkDA5PVhVQoqi7IDKYSCk0yPRUGLu&index=7&t=185s
shut up, girl 😎
They are getting ready to decide USA’s future AGAIN I guess.
this is what happens when you make stupid people famous.
U are so right – the sad truth is, Americans are getting more stupid every day, that’s why the Fat Orange Pig still has 40% support.
If anyone is curious as to why Trump despises John Brennan, here’s why.
In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trump’s orbit. In April 2016, one of the Baltic states shared with then–CIA director John Brennan an audio recording of Russians discussing funneling money to the Trump campaign. In the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, head of the U.K. intelligence agency GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief Brennan on intercepted communications between the Trump campaign and Russia..
The contents of these communications have not been disclosed, but what Brennan learned obviously unsettled him profoundly. In congressional testimony on Russian election interference last year, Brennan hinted that some Americans might have betrayed their country. “Individuals who go along a treasonous path,” he warned, “do not even realize they’re along that path until it gets to be a bit too late.” In an interview this year, he put it more bluntly: “I think [Trump] is afraid of the president of Russia. The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.”
In July 2016, a loose-knit community of computer scientists and cybersecurity experts discovered a strange pattern of online traffic between two computer servers. One of those servers belonged to Alfa Bank in Moscow and the other to the Trump Organization. Alfa Bank’s owners had “assumed an unforeseen level of prominence and influence in the economic and political affairs of their nation,” as a federal court once put it.
The analysts noted that the traffic between the two servers occurred during office hours in New York and Moscow and spiked in correspondence with major campaign events, suggesting it entailed human communication rather than bots. More suspiciously, after New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau asked Alfa Bank about it but before he brought it up with the Trump campaign, the server in Trump Tower shut down. The timing strongly implied Alfa Bank was communicating with Trump..
Trump knows, that Brennan knows, he’s a compromised Russian asset.
Wasn’t their scuttle but about Putin is helping himself the the Russian treasury and laundering it through the USA, on a scale he’s now one of the richest people, what’s the bet that trump was the guy in the USA and releasing his tax returns may be why he fighting so hard to keep them hidden, it’s also funny no bank would take a chance on trump as 6 times bankrupt except Deutsche Bank more to come on it me thinks
On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the US House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement.
“Dear friends, respected colleagues!” Nikonov said. “Three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections, and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America, and I congratulate you on this.”
Nikonov is a leader in the pro-Putin United Russia Party and, incidentally, the grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov — after whom the “Molotov cocktail” was named. His announcement that day was a clear signal that Trump’s victory was, in fact, a victory for Putin’s Russia.
Trump’s inauguration was celebrated jubilantly in Moscow, where Putin supporter Konstantin Rykov hosted an all-night party. Champagne flowed as an interpreter narrated the new U.S. president’s speech. In Washington, the Russian Embassy tweeted, “Happy #InaugurationDay2017!” with a photo of people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
The optimism was part of a larger embrace by Russia of Trump’s “America First” outlook, which emphasizes U.S. business interests and national security over promoting freedom and democracy, said Ilya Zaslavskiy, a researcher who has worked with the Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative.
Amid a busy schedule in Washington, Boris Titov — who was appointed by Putin to serve as a business ombudsman — told a Russian television station that new investment was likely to flow to Russia once the Obama era U.S. sanctions were lifted.
Businesses “are waiting for this signal, and they believe it will soon come,” he said…
It’s well known that Trump likes doing business with gangsters, in part because they pay top dollar and loan money when American banks stopped loaning Trump it money. It was a win-win for both sides. The Russian mafia is totally different than the American mafia. In Russia, the mafia is essentially a state actor. In an interviewed, Gen. Oleg Kalugin, who is a former head of counterintelligence in the KGB and had been Putin’s boss at one point, was asked about the Russain mafia. He said, “Oh, it’s part of the KGB. It’s part of the Russian government.”
Where did that article come from?
Hey man really where is that from??
Trump is a traitor. Full stop.
Yes.
So is every member of the senate, house and supreme court that blocks for him.
Larry J : He’s the Kremlin ‘s most important asset inside the US government.
Death penalty to traitors.
America vs Russian controlled MAGA
Traitor trump is total trash.
how ironic that Graham was concerned.
Maybe Trump removed the spy from Kremlin to get free support from the Russian cyber army for his reelection.
So who are the consequences for donald trump for destroying intelligence apparatus? Key to the white house and impunity?
Could this asset testify before Congress? Tell his story including that he was pulled out because there was a fear that Trump would tell his buddy Putin.
All we have to do is ask old Moscow Mitch so what’s the problem, let’s just run the red flag up cause we know trump loves them. What is the definition of a traitor?
Traitor=Clintons and Obamas.
FORGET POLLS REGISTER AND VOTE BLUE
Trump the presidential national security threat.
Twump is working for Russia , not the USA. Truth is stranger than fiction
Man, stop making up conspiracy theories. The left has become worse than Alex Jones in his best years
Sooooo, donald trump opened his mouth and revealed who the Russian source was?! I think donald was absolutely aware of what he did. ❔It is possible that donald trump deliberately leaked the info., to OBSTRUCT such an official from monitoring The 2020 U.S. Elections pertaining to Foreign interference?