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American Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Who Wanted to Sell Material on Trump
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Posted on 02/09/2018 4:20:17 PM PST by springwater13

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To: springwater13
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.

LOL!

61 posted on 02/09/2018 5:35:41 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Robert357

Or maybe it is some of those people who paid to have Hitlery installed as President and got zip for that investment. They are trying to recover some of that money.


62 posted on 02/09/2018 5:36:02 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Snowybear
Yeah, did I miss something? It sure seems the dam is about to break if the NYT is covering stuff like this. I don’t see how this helps Democrats.

The NYT story is meant to sow discord between Trump and the intel community. This all happened with Trump in the WH. It helps the Dems indirectly because it creates the impression that the intel community believes the allegations in the Steele dossier and are trying to verify it still.

63 posted on 02/09/2018 5:36:54 PM PST by kabar
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To: tennmountainman

Who signed the expense claim?


64 posted on 02/09/2018 5:41:29 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: springwater13

Trying to try their case in the court of public opinion won’t get them anywhere. Punish them.


65 posted on 02/09/2018 5:56:24 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: springwater13

Whew!! I smell bullsh*t!!


66 posted on 02/09/2018 5:56:30 PM PST by VA40
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To: VA40

So these brave upstanding Americans were trying to do something good and only got some crap on Trump that they didn’t ask for. Yeah. Okay.


67 posted on 02/09/2018 5:59:52 PM PST by VA40
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To: fuente

Agreed, it is a clumsy attempt at “modified, limited hangout.”


68 posted on 02/09/2018 6:00:53 PM PST by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: DefeatCorruption

Why, why do you you folks still make a distinction?!?!

How many Rs in congress REALLY wanted Trump to win??

They LAUGH when we say “it’s the DEMS in power that are doing this!!”

The sooner we realize this the better.

How many time have Rs ####ed Trump? Including McCain, Ryan and a lot more.


69 posted on 02/09/2018 6:35:47 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: springwater13

NSA =?? National Suckers Association


70 posted on 02/09/2018 6:53:33 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: springwater13

If the intelligence community has this kind of money to subvert U.S. elections, then a great case can be made for sizeable cuts to their budgets!


71 posted on 02/09/2018 6:56:23 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: springwater13

Why does the Slimes try to do the right thing every now and then?


72 posted on 02/09/2018 7:06:47 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Bryan24; Fedora

Yes, it reads like a story one would use to cover one’s arse and keep one’s job if one got caught at work trying to buy smut.

Not to mention, anything that involved Cody Shearer is liable to be deep bullsheiss. Cody is one of the Sid Blumenthal related folks like the late Tyler Drumheller.

Tyler Drumheller was a pal of Joe Wilson. They were all intertined in the antisemitic group VIPs which is in turn related to the LaRouche nuts like Larry Johnson and Karen Kwietkowski, the latter a source who fed nonsense to the eager believer Ted Kennedy of all people, to bash Rumsfeld.

I hear Hillary’s pal Joe Wilson- whose NYTimes op ed got the Scooter Libby travesty rolling - I hear his allegedly super dooper deep cover spy wife, Valerie Plame, is writing spy novels now.
I’d not be surprised if she wrote this.

They put their house on the market a few months ago but none of the articles about it mentioned to where they were moving. they’re up to something no doubt.


73 posted on 02/09/2018 7:34:47 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Bryan24

The story also sounds like the stuff those Russian on air comedians fooled Schiff and Maxine Waters with...


74 posted on 02/09/2018 7:37:54 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: springwater13

It’s breathtaking and laughable that we call them “intelligence” agencies.

Psssst... hey buddy. A million bucks for the dirt on Trump. Tell ya what, 100k up front, then I’ll be back in an hour with the goods.

He never returns. Our “intelligence” agents are mystified about what went wrong. Hell, he could probably get another 100k outta them if he played his cards right. LOL


75 posted on 02/09/2018 7:47:12 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Maybe it’s an effort to incorporate ‘kompromat’ into the American language before people stop to wonder why their congresscritter Adam Schiff is so familiar with it he uses it lie a native.


76 posted on 02/09/2018 7:48:56 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: springwater13
At a small bar in the former heart of West Berlin, the Russian handed the American intermediary a thumb drive

As I was reading the part about a Berlin bar, this stupid song about a western town with dead end walls kept popping into my head...

https://youtu.be/p3j2NYZ8FKs

77 posted on 02/09/2018 7:52:07 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Bryan24

One thing... whoever wrote it has been using Cody Shearer as a source since last year:

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.”


78 posted on 02/09/2018 7:58:02 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: fuente; Fedora
This is so goofy I wonder if it's coded: He took a sip of the cranberry juice he was nursing, picked up his bag and said, “Thank you.” Then he walked out the door.

Really? Include a useless detail like what the guy was drinking? If "cranberry juice" isn't a code word, then it's an identifier. Or... the author is seriously OCD.

79 posted on 02/09/2018 8:04:21 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MAGAthon

nice catch


80 posted on 02/09/2018 8:11:17 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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