Obviously most of us well know the answer to the thread's title, that C.I. stands for a "confidential INFORMANT" by law enforcement agencies, and its also used by the FBI along with "counter intelligence.
Whereas an organization like the CIA utilizes "spies", domestic law enforcement uses the term "informant."
Apparently, our beloved orange buffoon in the oval office (along with Giuliani and Hannity) are those few nitwits who do not understand the difference between "informant" and "spy."
The explanation for such may be ignorance....or maybe something else?
In this case it's "circular information", the informant tells Papadopoulos the Russians have dirt on the ***** and introduces hem to a pretty young thing (honey trap), the young thing introduces Papadopoulos to the Australian Ambassador, then Papadopoulos in a bar room discussion tells the ambassador he heard Russia had dirt on the *****. Then to complete the circle, the ambassador reports the conversation to the informants boss, and a contrived investigation begins.
Of course no Russian information changes hands, everything is hearsay, the legal term for that is entrapment.
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Trump was 100% correct when he stated that his ass kissers could even excuse his shooting someone on 5th Ave. and STILL get "cheers" from his base........
Tigger maintains his Trump Cult Membership with the above scenario that he pulled out of his behind.
He dipstick, who paid Papadopoulos to go to London in the first place, hint, it wasn't the Trump campaign.
According to a source with knowledge of the meeting, Halper asked Papadopoulos: “George, you know about hacking the emails from Russia, right?”
Papadopoulos told Halper he didn’t know anything about emails or Russian hacking, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. The professor did not follow up on the line of inquiry.
Halper first contacted Papadopoulos by email. In a Sept. 2, 2016, message sent to Papadopoulos’s personal email account, he offered the Trump aide $3,000 to write a policy paper on issues related to Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and the Leviathan natural gas field.
Halper also offered to pay for Papadopoulos’s flight and a three-night stay in London.
EXCLUSIVE: A London Meeting Before The Election Aroused George Papadopoulos’s Suspicions
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Nitwit, I'm NOT here to defend Halper.........But since Papadapolous WAS working for the Trump campaign should he have contacted someone higher up the chain (or, God forbid) the FBI that he was being offered DIRT on Hillary???.................
YES or NO? (what did he do, instead?)
Further, here's a tidbit about Halper.....his connections (NOT to the FBI, but) to the CIA.
Halper has close personal and professional ties to the CIA reaching back decades. He is the son-in-law of a former deputy director of the agency and worked on the 1980 presidential campaign of George H.W. Bush, who had served as CIA director.
When Bush became Ronald Reagan’s running mate, Halper was implicated in a spying scandal in which CIA officials gave inside information on the Carter administration to the GOP campaign.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/19/cambridge-professor-outed-as-fbi-informant-inside-trump-campaign/
