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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday January 14 2019, @07:09PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Monday January 14 2019, @07:09PM (#786573) Homepage Journal

    discrediting Clinton/glorifying Trump by Russian trolls didn't require any active cooperation/coordination with the Trump campaign.

    Well, it didn't REQUIRE coordination, but it turns out they went ahead and coordinated anyway. [soylentnews.org]

    That's an interesting point, and you may well be correct, but I don't have enough actual facts to satisfy me that it is. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that *I* lack the evidence to conclusively say you are correct.

    I would point out that long before the 2016 election, folks over at Crowdstrike identified DNS traffic from the Trump Organization querying addresses of servers at Alfa Bank and vice versa [slate.com]. The article posits that the traffic patterns appear to be a secretive communications channel between those organizations. I found that quite interesting when I read about it back in 2016.

    But as the saying goes, there's what you know and what you can prove.

    Shy of someone breaking Omerta [wikipedia.org] about this, we'll likely never know the full story.

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