Russian Officials Overheard Discussing Trump Associates Before Campaign Began
Source: WSJ
WASHINGTONU.S. intelligence agencies starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed associates of Donald Trump, several months before he declared his candidacy for president, according to current and former U.S. officials.
In some cases, the Russians in the overheard conversations talked about meetings held outside the U.S. involving Russian government officials and Trump business associates or advisers, these people said.
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The reports were gathered by intelligence agencies that routinely monitor Russian espionage against the U.S. Such efforts can include monitoring phone calls and emails as well as information from informants. The efforts werent aimed at Mr. Trump or his associates, these people said.
The U.S. intelligence agencies werent sure what to make of the vague and inconclusive information, given that Mr. Trump had done business in Russia and was a global celebrity well-known to prominent people there. The names of Americans do sometimes show up in conversations involving Russian officials that are overheard by U.S. intelligence.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-officials-overheard-discussing-trump-associates-before-campaign-began-1499890354
Boom...more at link
SHRED
(28,136 posts)PunkinPi
(4,878 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The Russians were more in control then the GOP. They created the Republican draft dodger in chief, and shoved him and Americas face. And now the GOP refuses to lift a finger to defend America against The Russians as they piss all over our democracy, and screw around Bigley with our nuclear power plants.
Republicans are absolutely shamefully willfully betraying America by letting this happen.
They had this dimwit hooked LONG ago.
Their psyops on the soft headed populace have been historically successful.
In a year's time, the republican party has enabled them to come back from a 50 TD deficit to win the Cold War three decades after they lost it.
ffr
(22,672 posts)Nothing to see here.
Move along.
A fake story made up by democrats.
Whoops!
drip. Drip. DRIP. POUR!
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Oh yeah, because Louise Mensch reported it in April.
https://patribotics.blog/2017/04/16/carter-page-went-to-moscow-with-a-tape-of-donald-trump-offering-treason-for-hacking/
She's been right about pretty much everything.
MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Mensch also called it correctly with this one:
https://patribotics.blog/2017/03/28/kushner-and-trump-taped-at-secret-trump-tower-meetings-with-russians/
Despite the general sentiment on the board, I'm of a mind to consider Louise a truthful reporter.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,385 posts)The OP is about US intelligence officials hearing Russians discussing Trump associates, and meetings with Russian government officials, before he started running.
The link you gave was about Carter Page having a recording of Trump that he took to Moscow to try to do a deal with Russians about hacking, more than a year later.
These are completely different stories.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)With all of the tech changes things should be happening faster. We have instant everything, and "documented" proof from a zillion sources in the form of tweets, emails, cell phone cameras, sophisticated intelligence detecting devices, etc. I know there are a ton of different areas that are under investigation but the drip, drip , drip should be a trickle, then a steady stream, and eventually a flood of info coming in and help with connecting the dots.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This looks like a set-up from go.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)So in that sense, the draft Dodger in chief stole the Republican nomination with the help of his Russian mob buddies.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)This...and it's still mind blowing to know all the things they knew and yet Comey trashed HRC!
Thanks, PunkinPi.