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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. SECRETLY NEGOTIATED WITH RUSSIANS TO BUY STOLEN NSA DOCS AND THE RUSSIANS OFFERED TRUMP DOCS
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/09/donald-trump-russia-election-nsa/THE UNITED STATES intelligence community has been conducting a top-secret operation to recover stolen classified U.S. government documents from Russian operatives, according to sources familiar with the matter. The operation has also inadvertently yielded a cache of documents purporting to relate to Donald Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Over the past year, American intelligence officials have opened a secret communications channel with the Russian operatives, who have been seeking to sell both Trump-related materials and documents stolen from the National Security Agency and obtained by Russian intelligence, according to people involved with the matter and other documentary evidence. The channel started developing in early 2017, when American and Russian intermediaries began meeting in Germany. Eventually, a Russian intermediary, apparently representing some elements of the Russian intelligence community, agreed to a deal to sell stolen NSA documents back to the U.S. while also seeking to include Trump-related materials in the package.
The CIA declined to comment on the operation. The NSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The secret U.S. intelligence channel with the Russians is separate from efforts by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to obtain information about Trump and his ties with Russia. Steele worked with Fusion GPS, an American private investigations firm that was first hired by Republican and later Democratic opponents of Trump to dig up information on him during the 2016 campaign.
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U.S. SECRETLY NEGOTIATED WITH RUSSIANS TO BUY STOLEN NSA DOCS AND THE RUSSIANS OFFERED TRUMP DOCS (Original Post)
MyNameIsKhan
Feb 2018
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The trump or chief traitor appointed CIA chief is protecting trump. If this happened, JUST THIS
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#1
Perhaps this operation was started to get pee pee takes and destroy them for ever. But digital copy?
MyNameIsKhan
Feb 2018
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. The trump or chief traitor appointed CIA chief is protecting trump. If this happened, JUST THIS
to a democrat, that car in space that Elon sent up there, said democrat would not be safe from the deplorables even in that car.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)2. Perhaps this operation was started to get pee pee takes and destroy them for ever. But digital copy?
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)3. +1000000000
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)4. Ok. Sent it to rachel.
Why isn't this asshat in jail?
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)5. Im lost. What good does it do to buy them back
Software, video, ? we promise we didnt make copies!
oxbow
(2,034 posts)6. This whole story smells fishy to me.
It doesnt make any sense and is very sloppily written. Dont trust the NYT either lately to have good judgement on things.