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In reply to the discussion: I suspect this supposed report on Trump was fabricated in order to discredit the media and left [View all]FarCenter
(19,429 posts)50. So why is the author's identity not being revealed?
He is presumably a former British spy who worked in counterintelligence against Russia, probably MI-6 (but maybe MI-5, since it is counterintelligence). He was working for an American company that was retained to do opposition research on Trump.
In the intelligence world "former" is a squishy thing. He may also have been working for the UK when he did the report.
In June, the former Western intelligence officerwho spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clientswas assigned the task of researching Trump's dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm. This was for an opposition research project originally financed by a Republican client critical of the celebrity mogul. (Before the former spy was retained, the project's financing switched to a client allied with Democrats.) "It started off as a fairly general inquiry," says the former spook, who asks not to be identified. But when he dug into Trump, he notes, he came across troubling information indicating connections between Trump and the Russian government. According to his sources, he says, "there was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump
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I suspect this supposed report on Trump was fabricated in order to discredit the media and left [View all]
Lee-Lee
Jan 2017
OP
The problem is that if its a setup they will bring out something to discredit everyone pushed it
Lee-Lee
Jan 2017
#9
Yep. and Donald can attack the dishonest media and tell "us" to trust him to save America
Freethinker65
Jan 2017
#18
But they were going to do that either way, that was set when the "fake news" reporting began
Docreed2003
Jan 2017
#42
Oh I agree with you....but why make it easier to discredit the true media/journalists?
Freethinker65
Jan 2017
#55
You're thinking the same way I am. There are plenty of other fake stories they could
Solomon
Jan 2017
#49
Except there are far more allegations from various sources about his ties to Russia.
NYC Liberal
Jan 2017
#19
Several elements have been previously confirmed- Manafort and Page's contacts with Russia
wishstar
Jan 2017
#24
If he actually is inaugurated (I wouldn't be surprised to see him step aside before 1/20)
mnhtnbb
Jan 2017
#36
I don't give a hoot if the details aren't true because I do believe the Russians have
mnhtnbb
Jan 2017
#38
That's the point to stick to. They have kompromat on him. Multiple intel sources around the WORLD
KittyWampus
Jan 2017
#54
Clarification. It was JEB! who paid for it and then apparently passed it to McCain afterwards.
KittyWampus
Jan 2017
#56
The reports were initially commissioned as opposition research by neverTrump
octoberlib
Jan 2017
#35