NYT: Papadopoulos, Page Met With 'Govt Informant' Ahead Of Election

[DonViejo]

By Allegra Kirkland | May 16, 2018 4:16 pm

“At least one” U.S. government informant met with Trump campaign officials in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

That person met “several times” with campaign national security advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, according to the report, which offered no additional information on the informant’s identity or connection with U.S. authorities.

The meetings had not previously been reported authoritatively by a major outlet. They were apparently part of the intelligence community’s frenzied, secretive effort to determine whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russian government while taking pains not to influence the election results.

Conservative media figures from Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel to radio host Rush Limbaugh have spent the last few days raising alarms about what they claim was an FBI informant dispatched to “spy” on the Trump campaign. Their concerns stem from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) weeks-long effort to pursue information about an intelligence source who aided the federal Russia investigation.

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[RandySF]

1. That's what informants do, dipshits.

[GusBob]

2. Before the election and before the Steele dossier came to light

Papadapolous got drunk and ran his mouth. Page was on the FBI radar for years

That's what started the whole thing.

Conservatives can't bitch all they want. Turns out the FBI smelled a nest of rats early on, and they were right!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I'm almost certain Carter Page's activities during the campaign were on U.S Intelligence radar.

Why?

Because infamous Kremlin propagandist Konstantin Rykov was bragging on Facebook in July 2016 that Page was in Moscow because he was meeting with Russian intelligence.

And because Rykov had a long standing feud with former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul and wanted to rub his collusionist activities in his face, he decided he was going to tag McFaul in on this little juicy tidbit.

McFaul likely alerted U.S. Intelligence to all of this, if U.S. Intelligence hadn't already been following along in the first place.

The posts (translated from Russian) are here:





Original link is here:

https://www.facebook.com/konstantin.rykov/posts/10209422386386902

My multipart write up on Rykov specifically pertaining to this exchange:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210567386