US intelligence community operating under presumption Russia has "ears" on the Trump team

[Jimbo101]

DailyKos

The American intelligence community is quite certain that the Donald Trump campaign was aided, whether knowingly or not, by a Russian government-sponsored espionage and propaganda effort aimed at boosting Trump's chances for the presidency. The Trump campaign was staffed with so many Russia-linked figures that newspapers took to designing charts to show them all, from Paul Manafort to Carter Page to Michael Flynn. The new Secretary of State comes to the role from a position orchestrating an oil deal between his company and Russia so massive that, if sanctions preventing it are lifted, it would reshape the Russian government's own finances for years to come.

The intelligence community knows of contact between Trump staffers and the Russian government before the inauguration. The intelligence community verified that despite Trump adviser Michael Flynn insisting he did not discuss the hacking-related sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on the Russian government with a Russian official, he in fact did. The intelligence community has now verified parts of the infamous and salacious "dossier" on Trump-Russia ties, though not the most alarming and damning bits.

And the American intelligence community is now operating under the suspicion that the new White House may include, somewhere within its top ranks a Russian mole.

A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets. [...]

What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the 5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration.

[Susan Calvin]

1. No kidding. Good for them. nt

[Chasstev365]

2. If the GOP won't do anything, it's time for a coup!

Arrest all the traitors and follow the line of constitutional secession.

[KewlKat]

3. surely the Con knows all of the above.....i can't believe he would tolerate their

withholding stuff........it should tell us all that the NSA must have some pretty damning evidence against the pres, don't ya think?

[Recursion]

4. Israel isn't sharing Intel with us anymore for that reason

However much they like his policies, there's no way Israel will share a damn thing that Putin's going to get

[procon]

5. Odd, Republicans still aren't moved to investigate a Russian mole in the WH.

Does that make them all co conspirators who are aiding and abetting Trump and his nest of traitors?

[flamingdem]

6. Yes, and if the dems don't hammer on this they are

blind

[neverforget]

7. Been telling my wife that there's a spy near Trump. My bet is Flynn, Bannon

Kushner or Trump himself.

[dalton99a]

8. Of course the White House is compromised.

[NBachers]

9. White House Down

[Dorian Gray]

10. Jesus. Our POTUS.

::eye roll::