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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExtracted Spy Had INFO Crucial To Assessment that Putin Had Directed Election Interference
New tonight: Given NYT has now made details on Russian spy public, I can now report additional info we had withheld. Asset had direct access to Vladimir Putin, including the remarkable ability to take photos of presidential documents, and had served US for more than a decade.
2/Asset had risen to the highest levels of Russias national security infrastructure. US offered extraction months earlier during Obama administration, but asset refused. Assets information was crucial to IC assessment that Putin had directed election interference to favor Trump
Link to tweet
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1171226614866337792.html
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)and Trump fucked it all up.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)moondust
(20,042 posts)DEEP, DEEP hiding.
I heard that Ken Dilanian walked up to asset's front door. If a reporter can do that then so can Pooty's boys with their nerve agent.
Not to be overly paranoid but...there could also be some Trumpanzee moles in the IC who could leak to the WH who could then leak to someone tied to the Kremlin. Trust nobody.
And I think Ken's name is also spelled Delaney.
moondust
(20,042 posts)Duppers
(28,137 posts)Please pardon my stupidity.
Some site are giving wrong spelling, even showing his pic. They are wrong.
Thank you again!!!
OnDoutside
(19,990 posts)by publicizing this. However, if he could find the guy, Putin would find him eventually too, so it's probably for the best as his handlers will now have moved him on to a more secure place.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,902 posts)Do we stand with the pre-Trump IC or the Trump- Putin- Republican Party?
Kid Berwyn
(15,204 posts)Sooner rather than later.
Thekaspervote
(32,844 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,204 posts)My concern is learning about the blacked-out portions of the Mueller Report. Lot of Red meat there, so to speak.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,044 posts)leftstreet
(36,119 posts)This seems bullshitty
MadLinguist
(793 posts)so that means someone decided that now was a good time to leak news of said spy's extraction.
Upon leaving a hole where his or her existence in Russia was, surely that person was in danger, wherever he or she landed up for a new life. This news popping up now feels to me like some kind of stage-craft. It doesn't make sense as just a random bit of narrative floating into the news stream.
leftstreet
(36,119 posts)seems weird
Blue Owl
(50,662 posts)n/t
ffr
(22,684 posts)Now we know where they stand, firmly with the enemies of America and those who will stop at nothing to undermine our democracy.
BadgerMom
(2,775 posts)Remember that they exposed our own CIA agent, Valerie Plame, to retaliate for the fact her husband had told the truth about the lack of evidence of nuclear material in Iraq sufficient to start a war. Their lies trumped truth and a US government agent. It boggles my mind.
dalton99a
(81,730 posts)How much you wanna' bet numbnuts names/bashes her/him on Twitter.
JHB
(37,170 posts)After all, naming names would tell the whole world just how close to Putin a spy could get, and that might not be something Vlad wants the whole world to know.
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