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The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the presidents own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscows influence.
The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.
Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trumps ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the presidents activities before and after Mr. Comeys firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage[
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,026 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)kairos12
(12,862 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,088 posts)By Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Nicholas Fandos
Jan. 11, 2019
WASHINGTON In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the presidents behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.
The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the presidents own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscows influence.
The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.
Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trumps ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the presidents activities before and after Mr. Comeys firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html
chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,088 posts)once again.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)Some may quibble over whether he is witting or unwitting asset, but that is a distinction without a difference when comes to effects on our national security.
mucifer
(23,550 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Link to tweet
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Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Link to tweet
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BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Palisade
(54 posts)We will find out soon enough!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)why they would have picked someone so mind-numbingly stupid and self-destructive. At the very least an asset has to be able to function at a basic level. This guy can barely string a sentence together.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)Putin is loving the Trump chaos and and the way Trump has blown up our alliances and threatened NATO and is removing us as a world power for human rights and democracy.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)They constantly leaked in that investigation, no discretion at all. Comey acted like her private server was worse than Trump's getting Russia to hack government servers.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I mean they worked to get him elected for a reason.
And if the reason was to disrupt our nation so take a look around.
Roadside Attraction
(238 posts)Here's a reading list:
Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, by Seth Hettena.
House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, by Craig Unger.
Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and how Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by Luke Harding.
The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy, by Greg Miller.
Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America, by Seth Abramson.