[detective]

This is a very interesting article.

I think that Carter Page, George Popadopoulos and others were Democrat Party/FBI operatives inserted into the Trump campaign. The whole Russia story along with the fraudulent dossier were created to frame Trump and his campaign and destroy Trump's presidency.

[JoSixChip]

Seems plausible, but then why did George Popadopoulos plead guilty to a felony?

[Yo-Yo]

My own personal (hairbrained) theory: The Russian Collusion story came about because the Obama/sHrillary FBI had wiretaps, email intercepts, and human assets in the Trump campaign, and couldn't find any other dirt.

Even I find it hard to imagine that someone like Trump who spent his life in NYC Real Estate didn't have some sort of mob ties or dealings that could have been exploited by the opposition. But apparently that is the case, otherwise we would have heard all about it long before now.

Maybe the Russian Collusion story was the insurance policy?

[Zathras]

I’m still betting on Halper.
CIA then got the info to GWB and then the Bush Family went all NeverTrump.
Logical, closes some holes and easy to connect and verify.

[edwinland]

Interesting. But what is the “exclusive” part of that article?

[MNJohnnie]

I don’t know if the same rules to the CIA apply but this was an obvious attempt at entrapment.

[logi_cal869]

I agree that Papadopoulos was a patsy, but no more.

Case in point: No need for the charade by which he was introduced to Downer. Furthermore, no need to “disappear” Professor Joseph Mifsud or, for that matter any need to orchestrate via Halper.

If this ‘op’ had been run professionally, I might concede that they pulled him out by charging him.

But this ‘op’ was a hack from start to finish. There are probably so many foreign moles - Russian, Chinese and more - in our security services and government that nothing at all is secret and we’re all being played.

Thus, if this ‘op’ was genuinely intended to destabilize our government, then the Russians wouldn’t look like the heroes for exposing it.

If you look carefully at what team Zero wanted to do, they came very close to accomplishing it by (IMHO) setting up Hillary and this whole charade. Thus, there was no need for any moles within the campaign if all that was necessary was to ensnare them. Besides, the WH remains a sieve of leaks.

Another case-in-point: We still don’t know who Imran Awan was working for.

[bitt]

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[Brown Deer]

Stefan Alan Halper
Born 4 June 1944 - Glen Ridge, Essex Co., NJ (Parents: Saul Harvey Halper 1913-2004 & Violet Harriet Kelter 1911-2005)

Married in September 1963, Manhattan, New York, NY to Nancy Elizabeth Boulton, born 25 July 1944 (Parents: Schroeder Boulton 1909-2000 & Marjorie Adora Clayton 1904-1964)

1967 - BA, Stanford University
1971 - PhD, University of Oxford

Married 9 November 1976, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands to Sibyl W. Cline, born 8 March 1948 - Alexandria, VA (Parents: Ray Steiner Cline 1918-1996 & Marjorie Elizabeth Wilson 1913-2001) divorced 6 January 1989, Arlington, VA

Married 14 February 1990, Fairfax, Co., VA to Lezlee Janis Brown, born 13 February 1956 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Parents: Saul Brown & Karen Ross)

2004 - PhD, University of Cambridge

Ties That Bind – Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud & Alexander Downer (& Papadopoulos)

March 14, 2016 – Papadopoulos first meets Mifsud in Italy – approximately one week after officially joining the Trump team.

March 24, 2016 – Papadopoulos, Mifsud, Olga Polonskaya and unknown fourth party met in a London cafe.

April 18, 2016 – Mifsud introduced Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, an official at a state-sponsored think tank called Russian International Affairs Council.

April 26, 2016 – Mifsud claims to have met with high-level Russian government officials who have “dirt” on Clinton. Papadopoulos told the FBI that Mifsud said “the Russians had emails of Clinton” and “they have thousands of emails.”

May 4, 2016 – Papadopoulos gives his interview to the London Times. It is not well-received in London.

May 10, 2016 – Papadopoulos meets with Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer. It is Downer who seeks out the meeting.

May/June 2016 – Halper invites Carter Page to July 2016 Cambridge symposium regarding the upcoming election.

July 11, 2016 – Carter Page attends symposium with Halper just four days after his July 2016 Moscow trip.

July 31, 2016 – FBI opens Counterintelligence Investigation into Trump-Russia connections.

August 2-3, 2016 – Strzok travels to London to meet unknown party at Australian Embassy.

September 13, 2016 – Papadopoulos accepts a meeting with Stefan Halper. Halper, who has connections to CIA & UK Intelligence, asked Papadopoulos: “George, you know about hacking the emails from Russia, right?”

Stefan Alan Halper
Born 4 June 1944 - Glen Ridge, Essex Co., NJ (Parents: Saul Harvey Halper 1913-2004 & Violet Harriet Kelter 1911-2005)

Married in September 1963, Manhattan, New York, NY to Nancy Elizabeth Boulton, born 25 July 1944 (Parents: Schroeder Boulton 1909-2000 & Marjorie Adora Clayton 1904-1964)

1967 - BA, Stanford University
1971 - PhD, University of Oxford

Married 9 November 1976, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands to Sibyl W. Cline, born 8 March 1948 - Alexandria, VA (Parents: Ray Steiner Cline 1918-1996 & Marjorie Elizabeth Wilson 1913-2001) divorced 6 January 1989, Arlington, VA

Married 14 February 1990, Fairfax, Co., VA to Lezlee Janis Brown, born 13 February 1956 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Parents: Saul Brown & Karen Ross)

2004 - PhD, University of Cambridge

Ties That Bind – Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud & Alexander Downer (& Papadopoulos)

March 14, 2016 – Papadopoulos first meets Mifsud in Italy – approximately one week after officially joining the Trump team.

March 24, 2016 – Papadopoulos, Mifsud, Olga Polonskaya and unknown fourth party met in a London cafe.

April 18, 2016 – Mifsud introduced Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, an official at a state-sponsored think tank called Russian International Affairs Council.

April 26, 2016 – Mifsud claims to have met with high-level Russian government officials who have “dirt” on Clinton. Papadopoulos told the FBI that Mifsud said “the Russians had emails of Clinton” and “they have thousands of emails.”

May 4, 2016 – Papadopoulos gives his interview to the London Times. It is not well-received in London.

May 10, 2016 – Papadopoulos meets with Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer. It is Downer who seeks out the meeting.

May/June 2016 – Halper invites Carter Page to July 2016 Cambridge symposium regarding the upcoming election.

July 11, 2016 – Carter Page attends symposium with Halper just four days after his July 2016 Moscow trip.

July 31, 2016 – FBI opens Counterintelligence Investigation into Trump-Russia connections.

August 2-3, 2016 – Strzok travels to London to meet unknown party at Australian Embassy.

September 13, 2016 – Papadopoulos accepts a meeting with Stefan Halper. Halper, who has connections to CIA & UK Intelligence, asked Papadopoulos: “George, you know about hacking the emails from Russia, right?”