Extracted Spy Had INFO Crucial To Assessment that Putin Had Directed Election Interference

[kpete]

New tonight: Given NYT has now made details on Russian spy public, I can now report additional info we had withheld. Asset had direct access to Vladimir Putin, including the remarkable ability to take photos of presidential documents, and had served US for more than a decade.

2/Asset had risen to the highest levels of Russia’s national security infrastructure. US offered extraction months earlier during Obama administration, but asset refused. Asset’s information was crucial to IC assessment that Putin had directed election interference to favor Trump

Link to tweet

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1171226614866337792.html

[RT Atlanta]

1. Jeezus...

and Trump fucked it all up.

[rufus dog]

9. tRump meant to fuck it up. NT

[moondust]

2. Asset better go into hiding. Fast.

DEEP, DEEP hiding.

I heard that Ken Dilanian walked up to asset's front door. If a reporter can do that then so can Pooty's boys with their nerve agent.

Not to be overly paranoid but...there could also be some Trumpanzee moles in the IC who could leak to the WH who could then leak to someone tied to the Kremlin. Trust nobody.

[Duppers]

12. THIS ⬆⬆

And I think Ken's name is also spelled Delaney.

[moondust]

13. Dilanian

http://muckrack.com/ken-dilanian

[Duppers]

18. Absolutely correct. Many thanks.

Please pardon my stupidity.
Some site are giving wrong spelling, even showing his pic. They are wrong.

Thank you again!!!

[OnDoutside]

21. My initial thought was : Dilanian, what an asshole for doing this, and to an extent he is still so,

by publicizing this. However, if he could find the guy, Putin would find him eventually too, so it's probably for the best as his handlers will now have moved him on to a more secure place.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Coming to a head, I think.

Do we stand with the pre-Trump IC or the Trump- Putin- Republican Party?

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Wonder what is spy's availability for public testimony?

Sooner rather than later.

[Thekaspervote]

5. Never!! This person risked their life and probably their family

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Putin knows the details.

My concern is learning about the blacked-out portions of the Mueller Report. Lot of Red meat there, so to speak.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. why of course. could there be any doubt?

[leftstreet]

7. Why is this even being reported? Is this person in danger?

This seems bullshitty

[MadLinguist]

14. question is, why is it being reported now? Spy was extracted 2 years ago

so that means someone decided that now was a good time to leak news of said spy's extraction.
Upon leaving a hole where his or her existence in Russia was, surely that person was in danger, wherever he or she landed up for a new life. This news popping up now feels to me like some kind of stage-craft. It doesn't make sense as just a random bit of narrative floating into the news stream.

[leftstreet]

17. Exactly

seems weird

[Blue Owl]

8. Only a matter of moments until tRump opens his fat yap

n/t

[ffr]

10. In other words, every republican who defends tRump should be ashamed

Now we know where they stand, firmly with the enemies of America and those who will stop at nothing to undermine our democracy.

[BadgerMom]

19. Republicans feel no shame.

Remember that they exposed our own CIA agent, Valerie Plame, to retaliate for the fact her husband had told the truth about the lack of evidence of nuclear material in Iraq sufficient to start a war. Their lies trumped truth and a US government agent. It boggles my mind.

[dalton99a]

15. Kick

[Bigredhunk]

16. -

How much you wanna' bet numbnuts names/bashes her/him on Twitter.

[JHB]

20. Not as sure a thing as it might seem at first...

After all, naming names would tell the whole world just how close to Putin a spy could get, and that might not be something Vlad wants the whole world to know.