Which bombshells do you think this article contains that impacted trumps campaign?? Post some lines
"On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid upped the ante. He sent Comey a fiery
letter saying the FBI chief may have broken the law and pointed to a potentially greater controversy: âIn my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian governmentâŚThe public has a right to know this information.â
"Does this mean the FBI is investigating whether Russian intelligence has attempted to develop a secret relationship with Trump or cultivate him as an asset? Was the former intelligence officer and his material deemed credible or not? An FBI spokeswoman says, âNormally, we donât talk about whether we are investigating anything.â 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."
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On Friday, FBI Director James Comey set off a political blast when
he informed congressional leaders that the bureau had stumbled across emails that might be pertinent to its completed inquiry into Hillary Clintonâs handling of emails when she was secretary of state. The Clinton campaign and others criticized Comey for intervening in a presidential campaign by
breaking with Justice Department tradition and revealing information about an investigationâinformation that was vague and perhaps ultimately irrelevantâso close to Election Day. On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid upped the ante. He sent Comey a fiery
letter saying the FBI chief may have broken the law and pointed to a potentially greater controversy: âIn my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian governmentâŚThe public has a right to know this information.â
Reidâs missive set off a burst of speculation on Twitter and elsewhere. What was he referring to regarding the Republican presidential nominee? At the end of August, Reid
had written to Comey and demanded an investigation of the âconnections between the Russian government and Donald Trumpâs presidential campaign,â and in that letter he indirectly referred to
Carter Page, an American businessman cited by Trump as one of his foreign policy advisers, who had financial ties to Russia and had recently visited Moscow. Last month,
Yahoo News reported that US intelligence officials were probing the
links between Page and senior Russian officials. (Page has called accusations against him
âgarbage.â) On Monday, NBC News
reported that the FBI has mounted a preliminary inquiry into the foreign business ties of Paul Manafort, Trumpâs former campaign chief. But Reidâs recent note hinted at more than the Page or Manafort affairs. And a former senior intelligence officer for a Western country who specialized in Russian counterintelligence tells
Mother Jones that in recent months he provided the bureau with memos, based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trumpâand that the FBI requested more information from him.
âThis is something of huge significance, way above party politics,â the former intelligence officer says. âI think [Trumpâs] own party should be aware of this stuff as well.â
Does this mean the FBI is investigating whether Russian intelligence has attempted to develop a secret relationship with Trump or cultivate him as an asset? Was the former intelligence officer and his material deemed credible or not? An FBI spokeswoman says, âNormally, we donât talk about whether we are investigating anything.â 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 officerâwho spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clientsâwas assigned the task of researching Trumpâs dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm. This was for an opposition research project originally financed by a Republican client critical of the celebrity mogul. (Before the former spy was retained, the projectâs financing switched to a client allied with Democrats.) âIt started off as a fairly general inquiry,â says the former spook, who asks not to be identified. But when he dug into Trump, he notes, he came across troubling information indicating connections between Trump and the Russian government. According to his sources, he says, âthere was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit.â
This was, the former spy remarks, âan extraordinary situation.â He regularly consults with US government agencies on Russian matters, and near the start of July on his own initiativeâwithout the permission of the US company that hired himâhe sent a report he had written for that firm to a contact at the FBI, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates, who asked not to be identified. (He declines to identify the FBI contact.) The former spy says he concluded that the information he had collected on Trump was âsufficiently seriousâ to share with the FBI.
Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officerâs conversations with Russian sources, noted, âRussian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance.â It maintained that Trump âand his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.â It claimed that Russian intelligence had âcompromisedâ Trump during his visits to Moscow and could âblackmail him.â It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on âbugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.â
The former intelligence officer says the response from the FBI was âshock and horror.â The FBI, after receiving the first memo, did not immediately request additional material, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates. Yet in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession and for him to explain how the material had been gathered and to identify his sources. The former spy forwarded to the bureau several memosâsome of which referred to members of Trumpâs inner circle. After that point, he continued to share information with the FBI. âItâs quite clear there was or is a pretty substantial inquiry going on,â he says."
ALL of that was a "bombshell", Slade and ALL of it was based on Richard Steele's lies backed up by corrupt higher ups in the FBI! David Corn based his article on an anonymous source backed up by another anonymous source violating every rule of journalism! He did that not because he had proof that it was real but rather because he wanted so badly for it to be true! David Corn was the "useful idiot" that the Clinton Campaign got to do their dirty work for them!