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posted by martyb on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the Why-Not-Just-Say-No? dept.

The Washington Post reports FBI’s investigation of Trump included a counterintelligence inquiry:

The FBI investigation into President Trump that was opened almost immediately after he fired then-Director James B. Comey also included a counterintelligence component to determine if the president was seeking to help Russia, and if so, why, according to people familiar with the matter.

The decision by then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe to open an investigation of a sitting president was a momentous step, but it came after Trump had cited the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election in his decision to fire Comey, these people said.

The counterintelligence component of the Trump investigation was first reported by the New York Times.

Late Saturday night, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro asked Trump in an interview if he is or ever was working for Russia. Trump responded, "I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked." Referring to the New York Times story, he went on, "I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written."

See also The Guardian.


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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday January 14 2019, @04:00AM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Monday January 14 2019, @04:00AM (#786253) Journal

    I can't recall the timeframe, but I thought six or so months ago I read an article from CNN about how there was propaganda put out by the Russians in support of both sides, just there had been more support for Trump. Had Trump lost nobody would have cared about the pro-Trump Russian propaganda but people would have been real concerned about the pro-Hillary Russian propaganda. When I read the article it seemed to me Russia was hedging their bets.

    Throughout this whole ordeal I have not questioned whether Russia is being a bad actor, I have just questioned whether or not it is something worth dying for. I think foreign bad actors are going to be expected. We are, atm, the world superpower. Everybody everywhere is spying on us and trying to influence us as much as they can. Influence by Russia is generally not accepted, yet influence by the Chinese and Israelies is currently seen as generally okay. Its not like we haven't bought soviet premiers in the past, and given the close ties we have had with Putin off and on it would not be surprising if we had some influence on his rise to power in the first place.

    For me the whole thing falls into the "don't let it happen again" thing. I would prefer do that by improving our own defenses rather than being offensive about it.

    I would also like to propose that it might not have been Russia, or at least partially not Russia. What did Russia have to gain from US chaos? I mean they do appear to like to be general asshats to us, as we do do them. The country right now that benefits most from both a disorganized US and negative US-Russia relation is China. The Chinese were the party that most likely hacked Hillary's server as around the time her server had been compromised the Chinese off-ed all US agents in their country. The bad US-Russian relations have pushed Russia closer to China as over the past decade Russia has been trying to be considered part of Europe instead of Asia. It caused damage to the Russian-Indian relationship where they were building a joint strike fighter and developing new long range missiles.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @11:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @11:43AM (#786412)

    Both Clinton and Trump had ties to both Russia and to each other.

    So why would it be that hard to believe that both parties could have been working with Russia, even while pretending Russia was an antogonist? We have LLNL working with Russian scientists *IN RUSSIA* on synthesizing new elements. So it's not like America isn't pretty cozy with Russia when it benefits us on any particular level.

    Back to the original point: Trump is more or less a RINO to begin with, having been cozy with Clinton and others as a Democrat up until 5-10 years ago. Having not been a lifelong republican, it seems odd that so many lifelong Republicans treat him like the conservative messiah, even ones who during the election hated on him for not being conservative enough.