GOP Rep. Wonders If NY Times' Sources Are Russians Posing As US Officials
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published MARCH 20, 2017, 2:13 PM EDT
Late into the third hour of Monday's House Intelligence Committee hearing, during which the FBI's director confirmed the agency was investigating whether there was any "cooperation" between the Trump campaign and Russia, one Republican congressman attempted to discredit the media's reporting on the topic.
"Is it possible that the New York Times was misled by individuals claiming to be current or former American officials?" Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) asked. When Comey said he could not answer that question, Wenstrup continued down the same path.
"Is it possible that a so-called 'source' to a media outlet may actually be a Russian advocate?" he asked. "Nothing to do with this story, but is it possible that a Russian surrogate could actually be the source that a newspaper is relying on?" Comey again refused to confirm or deny the source of a specific article, saying only: "In general, sure. Somebody could always be pretending to be something they're not."
The New York Times article in question disclosed to the public that several members of Trump's presidential campaign and inner circle had phone conversations and other communications with Russian officials that were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/brad-wenstrup-wonders-are-ny-tiimes-sources-secret-russians
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(81,487 posts)CincyDem
(6,358 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)Xolodno
(6,395 posts)...the Olympics.
Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)You would have to be cooperating into order to do something like that.
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Own Goal!
murielm99
(30,740 posts)Fake news! Fake sources!
Left-over
(234 posts)The one thing I have learned about the GOP goof balls is that if they accuse you of something they are probably doing that very thing.
ananda
(28,860 posts)And I thought Nixon was bad.
madville
(7,410 posts)Comey is right, it's not impossible. It would really depend on the intent of disinformation and/or meddling. Was it to benefit Trump? Was is to harm Clinton? Was it to cause mayhem and undermine the entire election process regardless of outcome? If it was the latter then I could see them leaking information from multiple angles. What if it was actually the Russians that leaked the Flynn recordings just to cause chaos?
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)flew down and pretended to be a human and fed this information to the NY Times? Of course, anything is possible.
tanyev
(42,558 posts)If Trump's their man, they'd want to keep it quiet. If Trump was not their man and they wanted to cause trouble, wouldn't they point the finger somewhere else? There's got to be plenty of incriminating material about his deals with China that wouldn't stand up to closer inspection.
They_Live
(3,233 posts)There, now it's accurate.
Judi Lynn
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How ya goin' ta keep'em down on the farm, after they've seen D.C.?
SunSeeker
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(7,188 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)have this 'problem'. Transparent government is good for everyone.