For all we know, the documents were all fakes

[Sugarcoated]

that they tempted Trump to steal and therefore give the Russians false information to act upon.

[elleng]

1. Oh right, because government agencies have nothing better to do than fabricate documents,

to entrap Russians.

[PatSeg]

2. Ha, ha, ha!!!

Wouldn't that be hilarious?

[Scrivener7]

3. I hope so. Otherwise our national security apparatus is shit.

[Better Days Ahoy]

4. Thanks for posting this one!

Would LOVE to see asset TFG and pupper master Putin beaten by one of the oldest counter-espionage tricks in the book. Would be to good to wish for.

Question for the legal eagles out there:
Any legal ramifications for planting false info in hopes it will be parlayed into the wrong hands by the target of the sting?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. That would imply a counter-intelligence operation against the President

Very hard to believe that would occur in the Trump executive branch.

[Ponietz]

7. The FBI's counter espionage unit is on the case

Unless complicit or hopelessly incompetent, after impeachment x2, insurrection, refusal to allow transition, et al, and seeing Comey, McCabe, Page, Strzok bite the dust, they would be highly motivated and watching closely for this when he vacated the premises—removing hard data of the highest security. There may have been an informer in the White House during that period. Maybe staff. My hunch is the law has had an eagle eye on that material from day one. Shudder to think otherwise.

Con the con for a dish of cold justice.

[LakeArenal]

6. I think that's called entrapment and dump's lawyer would be all over that.