Posted on 02/09/2018 4:20:17 PM PST by springwater13
After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.
The cash, delivered in a suitcase to a Berlin hotel room in September, was intended as the first installment of a $1 million payout, according to American officials, the Russian and communications reviewed by The New York Times. The theft of the secret hacking tools had been devastating to the N.S.A., and the agency was struggling to get a full inventory of what was missing.
Several American intelligence officials said they made clear that they did not want the Trump material from the Russian — who was suspected of having murky ties to Russian intelligence and to Eastern European cybercriminals. He claimed the information would link the president and his associates to Russia. But instead of providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced unverified and possibly fabricated information involving Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and purported Russian intelligence data.
The United States intelligence officials said they cut off the deal because they were wary of being entangled in a Russian operation to create discord inside the American government. They were also fearful of political fallout in Washington if they were seen to be buying scurrilous information on the president.
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Whenever this crap is “scooped” by the NYT, it is for the purpose of spinning the narrative and story in the light most favorable to the Rats. Same goes for the ComPost.
That’s where you begin with these tales.
I’m not sure how this helps the bungling idiots we call “intelligence” not look like bungling idiots.
Im shocked the Slimes actually reported this..just goes to show that the swamp is so freakin HUGE its infecting US Intelligence..they are so desperate to destroy Trump they would get info from any sleaze bag
This story would be good for Trump since it shows US intelligence agencies paying Russians for dirt on Trump. Why would the NY Slimes publish this?
Friday news dump
So, these intelligence officials realize that their escapade is likely to become public. They pre-emptively admit to their folly, but "they made clear that they did not want the Trump material". Yeah, sure! They just didn't want to be swept up in the whole GPSFusion scandal.
It will be interesting to find out if IG Horowitz mentions this.
Media never uses “Americans” or “US,” only if wanting to avoid terms like “Obama Administration.” They are old Pravda to the hilt.
>>Why does this story sound like a complete and total fabrication?
It sounds fake that obama’s spies would pay tax payer money to get dirt on Trump?
In what way does that sound fake? It sounds exactly in character for Obama and his minions.
It just makes you wonder how easy it would be to tease and then bilk Democrats and Deep State Democratic Party Operatives out of millions of dollars in cash.
I mean the Dem leader of the intelligence committee was recently spoofed. The FIB and spies have been spoofed. We have the Pakistani IT folks who spoofed the Democratic Congressional delegation.
These folks are easy marks.
Maybe this is the new get rich scheme for shady folks!
have fake russian accent.
is stolen from old American moose and squirrel cartoon!
They think we are so dumb.
“Why does this story sound like a complete and total fabrication?”
Because it’s in The NY Times.
What we have here was the obama agents trying to buy dirt on Trump for 1 million dollars using American CIA agents. They actually paid $100,000 for dirt. Dont believe that cyber weapon crap. This is coming out in the IG report and this is bull $hit to obfuscate in the NYT!!
Jail all involved.
Plausible deniability for covering themselves after full revelations are widely known about dossier. Remember, we arw the only only ones who even know about it beacause of msm blackouts
Don’t believe any part of this except the part where money was paid and more salacious unverified material was received. The rest is cover and fake context to distract from those two facts.
Likelihood is that those two facts were discovered by the inspector general or were otherwise about to come out and so the folks with their hands in the cookie jar leaked them along with all the made up context to distract from those two facts.
Bwahahahahaha!!!! LOLZ
“The theft of the secret hacking tools had been devastating to the N.S.A., and the agency was struggling to get a full inventory of what was missing.”
Do they seriously expect me to accept that???????
We’re talking about software. They talk as though these things we taken from an inventory and the NSA doesn’t know what is missing?? I’m sure they didn’t disappear (but downloaded). So why on earth would they think they would be “given” back??? ...at least without them keeping copies? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It’s just a cover, made up by somebody that has no idea what they’re talking about, to suggest they didn’t bring money to get dirt on Trump.
What fantasy!
Very interesting.
“Cody Shearer, an American political operative with ties to the Democratic Party, has been crisscrossing Eastern Europe for more than six months to secure the purported kompromat from a different Russian, said people familiar with the efforts, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid damaging their relationship with him.
Reached by phone late last year, Mr. Shearer would say only that his work was “a big deal — you know what it is, and you shouldn’t be asking about it.” He then hung up.”
More Democrat treason.
lmao 🤣
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