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How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt
NY Slimes ^ | 12/30/2017 | SHARON LaFRANIERE, MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZO

Posted on 12/30/2017 9:30:48 AM PST by mojito

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.

Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.

The hacking and the revelation that a member of the Trump campaign may have had inside information about it were driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of President Trump’s associates conspired.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Germany; Politics/Elections; Russia; United Kingdom
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To: little jeremiah

You don’t like my questions of Robert Mueller do you. Just consider me Sean Hannity in disguise. Or Steve Bannon. Or Jay Sekulow. Or Devin Nunes. Or Jim Jordan. Hopefully you know who those people are, and finally get the point. Unfortunately I sorta doubt it.


121 posted on 12/31/2017 3:53:58 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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To: Golden Eagle

I don’t care about your questions of Robert Mueller. What I object to is your avocation of trying to shut up others who stray from your list of accepted sources or acceptable (to you) positions. I don’t try to shut you up, I object to YOU trying to shut OTHERS up.

Got it?


122 posted on 12/31/2017 4:46:06 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah
I don’t care about your questions of Robert Mueller.

We'll see. Because according to my notes you are one of the very few here still supporting him, because some deep state tool on Twitter has convinced you to.

What I object to is your avocation of trying to shut up others who stray from your list of accepted sources or acceptable (to you) positions. I don’t try to shut you up, I object to YOU trying to shut OTHERS up.

My list of credible sources is very wide, unless you start linking obvious Twitter mind control agents who want us to believe that Robert Mueller's team is actually working to arrest Hillary, and not Trump. If you continue to post that sort of garbage, you should expect to be challenged, by many others besides myself, and personal attacks against us aren't adequate responses, FYI.

123 posted on 12/31/2017 5:13:04 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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To: Golden Eagle

Have fun being the Hall Monitor.


124 posted on 12/31/2017 7:34:03 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Kalamata

> DOJ INSPECTOR GENERAL MICHAEL HOROWITZ WAS HANDPICKED BY THE “ESPIONAGE MACHINE PARTY” RUN BY SOROS & ROGUE SPIES FOR AN UNELECTED CORPORATE COMBINE

I don’t think your 1 month old post is aging well, I am happy and relieved to report.

I believe Horowitz is wielding the sword of justice most deftly at the moment.


125 posted on 01/26/2018 12:11:18 PM PST by XEHRpa
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To: XEHRpa

It was the title of an article I read at that time. I’m very happy to read that your update!!! Thanks! : )


126 posted on 01/26/2018 3:01:45 PM PST by Kalamata (Meat hooks for Tyrants)
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