Posted on 05/12/2017 7:26:15 AM PDT by pgkdan
Russian hacker claims FBI offered him citizenship and a new life if he would confess to hacking Podesta emails on behalf of Putin and Trump
According to a report in Newsweek by Tom O’Connor, a Russian hacker who had been detained in Prague at the request of US authorities, was visited multiple times by FBI agents, who pressed him to confess to hacking the Podesta emails at the behest of Putin, and to help Trump. They allegedly (and unsuccessfully) offered generous inducements, to say the least.
Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, has found himself in the middle of an international dispute between Washington and Moscow, at the very center of which lies U.S. allegations that Russia sponsored a series of hacks targeting Democratic Party candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in favor of Republican candidate and current President Donald Trump. On October 5, 2016, days before U.S. intelligence publicly accused Russia of endorsing an infiltration of Democratic Party officials' emails, Nikulin was arrested in Prague at the request of the U.S. on separate hacking charges. Now, Nikulin claims U.S. authorities tried to pin the email scandal on him.
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So if we are to believe this account, the FBI under James Comey was willing to offer the Whole Package – citizenship and a new life – in order to be able to pin the leak of Podesta’s emails on a Russian in service to the elusive “collusion” between Trump and the Russkies. Such a generous offer, the sort of thing offered to high level enemy defectors, must have crossed Comey’s desk, if it didn’t originate there.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“in favor of . . . Trump”
Now how would our glorious G Men know what Russia’s “motivation” was, even assuming it was the Russians in the first place (a huge stretch in and of itself)
Maybe it just wanted to embarrass Clinton and/or Podesta. Or maybe, just maybe, the Russkies weren’t even involved at all?
Thanks for posting this.
Nothing the FBI has done under Comedy, Holder, Lynch and Obama should surprise us.
There will be a trickle at first of FBI dirty tricks and abuses like this report.
That trickle will turn into a flood of reports of bad actions as victims of these activies step forward.
Then, former FBI agents will step forward with their first hand reports of vile FBI actions under Holder, Lynch, Obama and their thug Comedy.
Probably were not...at least as it's being portrayed by the democrats and the media, there I go repeating myself again. I think Comey thought he had an ideal opportunity to buy his very own hacker that would destroy Trumps' Presidency.
IOW, Comey was following orders to manufacture a Russian hacking scandal at all costs.........................
Podesta wasn’t hacked. He got caught ny someone phishing. Basically his self-important ignorance did him in, not Russians.
That’s what it looks like to me.
Wait a minute. Newsweek is doing a story that shows the FBI *establishment* was out to get Trump and not follow the TRUTH?
Apocalyptic.
Yep.. It's the end of the world as we know it. Women and children to be affected worse.
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