Marcy Wheeler: I shared this information with the FBI, concerning cooperation w/ Syria and Russia

[ehrnst]

Sometime last year, I went to the FBI and provided information on a person whom I had come to believe had played a significant role in the Russian election attack on the US. Since that time, a number of public events have made it clear I was correct.

First, I think the public deserves to see the text he sent me at 3:15 PM on November 9, 2016.



The substance of the text — that the Trump team started focusing on Syria right after the election — has been corroborated and tied to their discussions with Russia at least twice since then. Most importantly, in his statement to Congress, Jared Kushner explained his request for a back channel with the Russians by describing an effort to cooperate on Syria.

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The text sent to me matches both those reports — indeed, it makes it clear that “shortly after the election” means just over 14 hours after polls closed. But the text doesn’t come from anyone, like Kushner or Flynn, inside the Trump team. It comes from someone who, I believe, had already done real damage to the United States as part of the Russian attack. That person understood the cooperation with Syria in terms of the US backing Bashar al-Assad, not in terms of fighting ISIS.

I’m making this public now because a David Ignatius report Thursday maps out an imminent deal with Russia and Israel that sounds like what was described to me within hours of the election. This deal appears to be the culmination of an effort that those involved in the Russian attack worked to implement within hours after the election.
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I only came to be convinced slowly about Russia’s role in the attack and I have been skeptical of the Steele dossier from the day it was published. That said, I obviously do not like Donald Trump — though I’m no Hillary fan, either. But my decision to share information with the FBI had nothing to do with my dislike for Donald Trump. It had to do with the serious damage that someone else I believed to be involved in the Russian attack — someone I had been friendly with — was doing to innocent people, almost all of those people totally uninvolved in American politics.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/03/putting-a-face-mine-to-the-risks-posed-by-gop-games-on-mueller-investigation/

[WhiteTara]

1. any speculation on who that person is?

[ehrnst]

2. No idea. But Marcy is very, very credible. (nt)

[WhiteTara]

3. Yes. But if that person is not in the cabal central

and not someone already named, who's left? I'm assuming this person is US.

[ehrnst]

4. She says "when this person's role (is) publicly revealed"

So it appears this person is going to be revealed as having been a major player in the Russian attack at some point (during the campaign), but is not presently.

"But the text doesn’t come from anyone, like Kushner or Flynn, inside the Trump team. It comes from someone who, I believe, had already done real damage to the United States as part of the Russian attack."

[WhiteTara]

5. yeah, I read that too. That's why the speculation part.

[ehrnst]

6. Who benefitted from Hillary being undermined?

Whose agenda, other than DOTUS' was Russia trying to benefit? Somone not on the Trump team who might have willingly cooperated with Russia, in order to see a Democratic Party candidate tank?

One name that comes to mind - Jill Stein. Or someone on her team.

Stein's campaign was a subject of a subpoena in April - and Marcy's refusal to give the date that she turned this over to the FBI might be the connection that reveals that.

There are others not on DT's team with ties to Russia, and the Ukraine. And Manafort.

[WhiteTara]

7. oh. That just brought to mind Tad Davine!

I don't think that Stein has that much to gain. She was a definite stoolie and was most like paid off. But now, I'm thinking a name that is unmentionable.

[ehrnst]

8. ....

"In many ways," who won the election, and wasn't "on Trump's team?"

[WhiteTara]

9. so true. Newly minted millionaires

who gets to wave in parades while others fight for refugee children locked in cages.