CBS: 2016 FBI intercepts picked up conversations between Manafort & Russians about campaign

[highplainsdem]

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/paul-manafort-surveillance-during-2016-campaign/

Long before the special counsel began investigating Russian meddling in the U.S. election -- and whether anyone in the Trump campaign was involved -- Paul Manafort was the target of an FBI investigation. It included electronic surveillance of the one-time Trump campaign chairman.

CBS News has learned that the surveillance on Manafort occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign.

According to a former U.S. official, the intercepts picked up conversations between Manafort and Russian individuals about the campaign. The intercepts potentially include conversations between Manafort and President Trump.

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[malaise]

1. Think about it

They have the fugging campaign chairman on tape

[L. Coyote]

15. #ShitFanWeek might be trending soon

Unless you can think of a better hashtag for how fast this is all developing.

[MyNameIsKhan]

2. this is quite a news!

[SHRED]

3. And the FBI still let tRump get elected

[jrthin]

4. It seems to me they preferred a traitor

to a woman. F**king sad.

[groundloop]

6. but but but.... the emails !!!!!!!

What a clusterfuck.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Our country is going down the sewer lines because of an old game that has been

played since Edgar Hoover. My hunch, someone in the FBI thought they had some Kompromat on a potential presidential candidate. It's a game that no longer has a place in a tech world where some sixteen year old might see something and put it on Twitter within seconds.

[BadgerMom]

7. Comey, the FBI, the Republican leadership,

and the Obama administration--all dropped the ball, some accidentally and some purposely.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Mitch McConnell was the main player

who stopped Obama and the DOJ from going forward. Party before Country. And now it will be Mitch who gets burned as well as Trump.

[BadgerMom]

12. Oh, how I hope so!

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Little Lindsey is running the Mitch McConnell

Image Rehab operation. Lindsey Graham knows he will be a back bencher after the 2018 mid terms. Appears this is McConnell/Graham effort to spin the Narrative to take the news cycle off Trump. With the Revelation of Trump and his band of Merry Grifter's using RNC as well as Campaign funds to stave off Impeachment or Jail,Not looking good for those scum bags at the GOP.


Timber!

[moosewhisperer]

8. At the Jr. meeting...

...Manafort was described as "looking at his phone the whole time".

Think there's audio of that Jr./Manafort/Kushner/Russians meeting? It's damn possible.

[Nwgirl503]

9. Along with trump and his cabal I want to know who else knew and when

When the depth of this shit show is finally exposed (as much as will be exposed publicly), I want more heads to roll than just trump and his fellow traitors. This election was stolen and we deserve to know who else knew what and when. I don't really care who it is. This should have been stopped.

[Equinox Moon]

10. I see this as the fire under the fry-pan is being turned up.

Curious how even know about this. Someone is leaking it to further box in Manafort. He might just sing.

[merrifield]

13. Louise Mensch was right about this

I know some on DU discount her. She wrote about Manafort being wired last July. She even wrote (in July) that Hannity was caught talking to Manafort about collusion. Hannity tonight has threatened to sue over this--as if he has "immunity" as a "journalist". She has been right much more than she's gotten it wrong.

[WyattKansas]

14. Now you know the rest of the story behind...

Trump's bogus claim that Obama wiretapped him and why Trump had a tantrum.

[L. Coyote]

17. And why Trump has been shitting bricks since November.

They knew they were caught when the FISA news came out.