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(1,694 posts)imanamerican63
(13,724 posts)Did he say he was the spy? He copping to everything else?
brucefan
(1,549 posts)Alex Witt told Nunberg she felt very uncomfortable with him disclosing the name.
hlthe2b
(102,105 posts)even though he had ZERO science background.
Good riddance Sam, but it seems your 'friends' are selling you out.
IMPORANT TO KNOW, though that this moron may have no real idea who it is.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)LuvLoogie
(6,906 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)I've heard the right wing press has been publishing the name since at least yesterday.
gademocrat7
(10,643 posts)onecaliberal
(32,770 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)There has been some speculation that he might have tried to reel me in, Page told the Washington Post in response to Fridays story. At the time, I never had any such impression.
The informant also met Sam Clovis, then Trumps co-campaign chairman, for coffee in Northern Virginia in late summer 2016. Cloviss lawyer told the Post that their conversation focused on China, and that Russia never came up.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/the-fbis-trump-campaign-informant-what-you-need-to-know.html
zaj
(3,433 posts)Stefan Halper? If so, note that NBC reported this already
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna875516?__twitter_impression=true
"Both The New York Times and The Washington Post have reported that the FBI made use of one or more informants in its Russia investigation. The Times says one person working with the FBI met with two Trump aides who were suspected of dealing with Russians: Carter Page, who was under FBI surveillance, and George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
NBC News has not confirmed the use of informants in the Russian interference investigation, which began in July 2016. A right-wing web site, the Daily Caller, first reported that both Page and Papadopoulos met during the campaign with an American professor at Cambridge University in England. One of the men, Papadopoulos, has told associates he now views his encounter with the professor with suspicion, two sources familiar with his story told NBC News.
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The professor who met with both Page and Papadopoulos is Stefan Halper, a former official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations who has been a paid consultant to an internal Pentagon think tank known as the Office of Net Assessment, consulting on Russia and China issues, according to public records.
No evidence has surfaced publicly indicating that Halper was acting as a government informant. He did not respond to an NBC News request for comment. But the Daily Caller noted that right-wing media personalities have speculated about his role in recent days."
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)My understanding of his possible involvement is that he contacted the FBI to alert them to possible compromise of Flynn with a Russian woman. He was alerting law enforcement to a possible crime and subsequently went on to provide further info. He was not recruited as a plant.
AJT
(5,240 posts)Gothmog
(144,884 posts)Nunberg is a repug and is a disgusting human being
B2G
(9,766 posts)The WP and NYT published their stories.