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(28,270 posts) Thu Mar 23, 2017, 07:44 AM Mar 2017

CNN: Trump Team Gave Russians "Thumbs Up" to Release Hillary Smears [View all]

CNN: Trump Team Gave Russians "Thumbs Up" to Release Hillary Smears
Kevin Drum Mar. 22, 2017 9:22 PM

The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN....The FBI is now reviewing that information, which includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings.

....One law enforcement official said the information in hand suggests "people connected to the campaign were in contact and it appeared they were giving the thumbs up to release information when it was ready." But other U.S. officials who spoke to CNN say it's premature to draw that inference from the information gathered so far since it's largely circumstantial.

Apparently this is all "raising suspicions" among counterintelligence officers about ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.

If everything we've heard today is true, members of the Trump team were (a) in frequent contact with the Russians to coordinate the release of smears against Hillary Clinton, and (b) in frequent contact with some other group of people who were under surveillance for...something. What busy beavers!

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/cnn-trump-team-gave-russians-thumbs-release-hillary-smears

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CNN: Trump Team Gave Russians "Thumbs Up" to Release Hillary Smears [View all] workinclasszero Mar 2017 OP

And what's more the Con himself asked Russia to leak on Hillary malaise Mar 2017 #1

I hope so too, malaise. trusty elf Mar 2017 #2

Good morning trusty elf malaise Mar 2017 #3

Good morning to you, too! trusty elf Mar 2017 #10

So is that, like a literal dickhead? Maraya1969 Mar 2017 #9

yep trusty elf Mar 2017 #11

perfect!!! samnsara Mar 2017 #26

Yep, thats collusion in and of itself!!! uponit7771 Mar 2017 #28

Correct is malaise Mar 2017 #33

Kick. dalton99a Mar 2017 #4

This isn't the whole story. roamer65 Mar 2017 #5

Drip...drip...drip... workinclasszero Mar 2017 #7

And the hits keep coming! kentuck Mar 2017 #6

We need to remind people that Russia is an enemy of the US. I've heard some nitwits Maraya1969 Mar 2017 #8

But they don't think the Russian government is evil. Lucky Luciano Mar 2017 #20

They've been cracking down on evangelicals lately Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #22

I've told some how they poison people, especially the last guy where someone just opened a hankie Maraya1969 Mar 2017 #24

Mobsters vlyons Mar 2017 #36

Just what Bannon and Dump workinclasszero Mar 2017 #37

Putin is just sitting back and watching bdamomma Mar 2017 #27

They don't know ow evil OUR government is. pangaia Mar 2017 #31

Don't forget July 27 when Trump invited the hack! bucolic_frolic Mar 2017 #12

I mean this is always the event that shocks me. retrowire Mar 2017 #21

Although we have laws on the books, our position is precarious and untested bucolic_frolic Mar 2017 #25

IKR? workinclasszero Mar 2017 #38

It is the exact equivalent of asking retrowire Mar 2017 #43

The SOB traitor workinclasszero Mar 2017 #45

Exactly retrowire Mar 2017 #46

Yes we are being fed to the lions workinclasszero Mar 2017 #47

And Hillary war wrong, I tell you! Oak2004 Mar 2017 #55

"the information in hand suggests" n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2017 #13

The other (non election) "something" they communicated about could have been tblue37 Mar 2017 #14

I want perp walks! mcar Mar 2017 #15

Damn right! workinclasszero Mar 2017 #16

Him and all of his flying monkeys! mcar Mar 2017 #17

Yes! workinclasszero Mar 2017 #18

That someone else could be neo-nazis and our rightie intel people associated with them. Mc Mike Mar 2017 #19

Use extreme interrogation on Ghouliani. Ilsa Mar 2017 #23

Am I fucking missing something here??? Amimnoch Mar 2017 #29

35-page dossier is a good re-read: Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #32

Precisely malaise Mar 2017 #34

Was he asking them to hack the email server jmg257 Mar 2017 #35

Who knows. he is not known for making sense. POint is he asked them to hack her emails. Amaryllis Mar 2017 #48

He asked them to release emails that had been deleted 2 years earlier...what would jmg257 Mar 2017 #50

+1000 workinclasszero Mar 2017 #39

You put that video evidence away right this instance! retrowire Mar 2017 #44

The Supremes SELECTED Bush! SCVDem Mar 2017 #30

Agreed! No confirmation for Gorsuch! Initech Mar 2017 #42

Ivankas romp in Croatia with Putin's GF, Wendi Deng Murdoch needs to be reexamined. Maru Kitteh Mar 2017 #40

Does this mean Dems now have the necessary proof to call for impeachment? onetexan Mar 2017 #41

How many times have we seen Assface with his tiny thumbs up? Cracklin Charlie Mar 2017 #49

I have to admit, this is damn funny stuff C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #51

lol MFM008 Mar 2017 #52

When does Alan Funt come out C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #53

What I find hilarious is that Flynn was ex-DIA Oak2004 Mar 2017 #56

Oh yes I can see his tiny thumbs now.. and his big shit eating grin. Cha Mar 2017 #54