Brent Budowsky (The Hill) echoes Louise Mensch on existence of recordings in Trump/Russia

[pnwmom]

Brent Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and Rep. Bill Alexander (D-Ark.), then-chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. in international financial law from the London School of Economics.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/332939-the-feds-have-trump-tapes-akin-to-nixons-watergate

During the Russia scandal that plagues the Trump presidency, there are also large numbers of recorded conversations that provide the equivalent of the Watergates tapes. I call them "Trump tapes", which were legally recorded by counter-intelligence and law enforcement authorities for legitimate security and law enforcement purposes.

The eavesdropping that created these tapes was originally aimed against foreign individuals with interests that are are hostile to America, including Russian targets. The tapes would include every mention by foreign intelligence targets of every individual associated with Trump with whom they spoke.

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Consider three key factor surrounding this body of evidence:

First, there would be eavesdropping against hostile foreign actors representing a wide range of players, including Russia, China and other nations with ties to espionage against America or other crimes.

Second, considering the strangely long list of Trump associates who have had business interests or contact with people having Russian ties, there is probably a substantial number of recordings when we add them all up!

Third, as I mentioned in my most recent op-ed in The Hill, the Russians know everything about every contact of a Trump associate with every actor working for Russia. For practical purposes, there are probably two sets of Trump tapes in existence, one possessed by American authorities, the other possessed by Russian authorities. Either Russian or American actors could choose to leak, disclose or otherwise weaponize this information.

[emulatorloo]

1. Interesting read, thanks for posting

Recommending.

[L. Coyote]

2. And then there are all the intercepts and surveillance by foreign intelligence agencies.

[Abu Pepe]

4. Flynn's conversation with kysliak should be made public. asap. nt

[2naSalit]

5. K&R