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In reply to the discussion: U.S Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents - And the Russians Offered Trump-R [View all]Calista241
(5,586 posts)57. From the Russian perspective
Nothing would be better than for Trump to run into huge legal difficulty. They got Clinton out, and now they're hamstringing Trump and his administration.
I understand why the Intelligence agencies are taking this with a grain of salt. Doesn't mean i wouldn't like it to be true, but it seems awfully convenient for the Russians.
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Pale Blue Dot
Feb 2018
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and apparently the oil & gas industry is trying to cut off Russia's supply to Europe
yurbud
Feb 2018
#49
Yes. We only find out that something is "missing" when it is reported outside of the agency
erronis
Feb 2018
#23
Yeah, I'm a bit confused by that too. I don't understand how this would make sense.
xor
Feb 2018
#53
I posted something last week from Intercept and got all kinds of criticism that it was not a
Amaryllis
Feb 2018
#25
Nothing's changed. The Intercept is still unreliable agenda driven crap. n/t
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2018
#28
Oh puhleeze! Don't believe anything from that fucking Greenwald-ian rag... The Intercept.
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2018
#27
I think the idea is to learn exactly what Russia knows and what their involvement was.
lagomorph777
Feb 2018
#46
Perhaps it's more about determining exactly what it is that they stole/know ...
mr_lebowski
Feb 2018
#40