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2018-02-10 Government

US intel community reportedly tried to purchase documents or something from the Russians

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 an operation to recover stolen, classified National Security Agency documents from Russian operatives

Does the CIA/NSA employ imbeciles? Because only an imbecile could come up with a cover story as lame as this one. "Sure, we'll sell you back your documents. Fortunately for you we never made any copies. Swearsies. Oh, by the way, here's some free dirt we made up, er, I mean, found, on Trump."

Posted by PBMcL 2018-02-10 01:43|| 2018-02-10 01:43|| Front Page Top

#2 The retrieval of stolen cyber documents sounds plausible enough. A lot of that going around lately.

It's a short-term project. Go ahead, write it up.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-10 01:54|| 2018-02-10 01:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Tried going through the Clinton Foundation?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-10 08:20|| 2018-02-10 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Everything they say sounds plausible - unless you been hearing the same excuses for the last 40 years.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-10 08:23|| 2018-02-10 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The Daily Caller article now contains this update:

Update: The CIA is contesting The Times story and a similar one that appeared in The Intercept.

“The people swindled here were [Intercept reporter] James Risen and [New York Times reporter] Matt Rosenberg. The fictional story that CIA was bilked out of $100,000 is patently false,” CIA spokesman Dean Boyd told The Daily Caller News Foundation after this article was published. Boyd was unable to provide additional details because of the sensitivity of the topic.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-02-10 20:44|| 2018-02-10 20:44|| Front Page Top

#6 "Who you gonna believe? A Federal Agency or your own lying eyes..citizen?"

Posted by Frank G 2018-02-10 20:59|| 2018-02-10 20:59|| Front Page Top

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