Who is Austin Bay and why did he pen this for Jared's NY Observer days after the June 2016 meeting?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

This was published by the New York Observer, which was owned by Jared Kushner, on June 16, 2016.

Jared Kushner, along with Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort, met with the Russians at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016 after they were promised alleged information on Hillary Clinton by the Russian government.

Here's the link:

http://observer.com/2016/06/vladimir-putin-has-everything-he-needs-to-blackmail-hillary-clinton/

And here's the title and subtitle of the piece:

Vladimir Putin Has Everything He Needs to Blackmail Hillary Clinton

American intelligence officers are asking not 'if' but 'when' the Kremlin will dip into its arsenal of Clinton collateral

By Austin Bay • 06/16/16 8:30am

RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) is rife with reports that Russian intelligence agencies are preparing to release emails “hacked” from Hillary Clinton’s rogue Internet email server.

Agreed, this sounds a bit like a blackmail plot in a 1940s radio detective thriller or a soap opera. Except it isn’t. We live in a world where blood gets spilled.

I’ve read through several reports about the possible Russian information release, ranging from the staid, professional analysis to the wild Hollywood excitement—breathless. One of the more interesting analyses appeared a few days ago on oilprice.com, a site devoted to analyzing the global oil industry and forecasting trends:

“Reliable intelligence sources in the West have indicated that warnings had been received that the Russian Government could in the near future release the text of email messages intercepted from U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server from the time she was U.S. Secretary of State. The release would, the messaging indicated, prove that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services.”

[eppur_se_muova]

1. "RUMINT" ?? WTF ?

Say it authoritatively, like it's a real thing, and suckers will fall for it.