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Home Front: Politix
Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him
2017-01-11
[CNN] Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.
The money shot:
The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.

The classified briefings last week were presented by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs -- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

One reason the nation's intelligence chiefs took the extraordinary step of including the synopsis in the briefing documents was to make the President-elect aware that such allegations involving him are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and other government officials in Washington, multiple sources tell CNN.

Related from Breitart and Buzzfeed: Peak ‘Fake News’: BuzzFeed, CNN Target Trump with Admittedly Unverifiable Russia ‘Memos’
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#13  MI6 Officers don't call Football soccer...

That's how you know it's bullshit - case closed.
Posted by: Raj   2017-01-11 13:48  

#12  Trump's dumps are massive lumps,
And look just like Obama,
When they hit the pan,
He shouts "Yes, we can"
And flushes them away-o-rama

Found elsewhere
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-01-11 13:39  

#11  Ya know, I've been trying to understand this "virtue signaling" thing and wonder if this is an example?

Or is it just a set-up?
Posted by: Bobby   2017-01-11 13:35  

#10  Which is much worse.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-01-11 13:30  

#9  Sorry BP, CNN is Clintonian not Russian.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-01-11 13:27  

#8  I didn't know CNN was russian, but it does make a lot of sense.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-01-11 11:20  

#7  Part of the shock is that we've allowed ourselves to believe the Elites would go quietly.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-01-11 10:13  

#6  And, and, and he's a martian too. And not the good kind...
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2017-01-11 09:05  

#5  MI6 Officers don't call Football soccer...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-01-11 06:04  

#4  Did this unnamed MI6 officer have anything to do with former Congressman and FBI agent Mike Rogers, Aegis LLC, or no-bid security contracts at Benghazi annex by chance ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-11 05:16  

#3  I understood there was an empty bottle of vodka and a remnant of a pickle inside the hacked computer.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-01-11 04:31  

#2  Hillary will definitely need that pardon now.
Posted by: gorb   2017-01-11 03:25  

#1  The raw memos on which the synopsis is based were prepared by the former MI6 agent, who was posted in Russia in the 1990s and now runs a private intelligence gathering firm. His investigations related to Mr. Trump were initially funded by groups and donors supporting Republican opponents of Mr. Trump during the GOP primaries, multiple sources confirmed to CNN. Those sources also said that once Mr. Trump became the nominee, further investigation was funded by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton.

So, let me get this straight. A Washington D.C. 'Opposition Research Group' likely funded by Clinton, Soros, dems, you pick....looking for info, dirt, and validity, hires Non-USP and former British MI6 officer to build 'synopsis' on Trump connections and 'surrogates.' Unsubstantiated data (unfinished and unverified data aka rumors) then shared with McCain, Reid, Comey....but not Trump until last week.

Excuse me while I claim partisan political BULLSHI* and possible foreign espionage directed against USCIT and U.S. presidential candidate (Trump) by a 'former' foreign intelligence operative likely hired by the Clinton campaign.

Dirty, nasty Russians had the info all the time and never said anything, not even to Wikileaks? Clinton campaign foreign operatives now correcting the record by disseminating unsubstantiated information (non-intelligence fake news). There Julian Assange, take THAT !

Thank you McCain, Reid, Comey, Brennan, Obama, and Clinton's. Nice, very nice. I hope Mike Flynn explains this to Trump and he sticks it up their collected arses with a post-Jan 20th Justice Department investigation.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-01-11 01:33  

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