FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article127232114.

January 18, 2017 1:53 PM



FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during the presidential inaugural Chairman's Global Dinner, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Washington. Evan Vucci AP

By Peter Stone and Greg Gordon

McClatchy Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON

The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter said.

The agencies involved in the inquiry are the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the director of national intelligence, the sources said.

Investigators are examining how money may have moved from the Kremlin to covertly help Trump win, the two sources said. One of the allegations involves whether a system for routinely paying thousands of Russian-American pensioners may have been used to pay some email hackers in the United States or to supply money to intermediaries who would then pay the hackers, the two sources said.


President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday delivered his first press conference since the November presidential election. Trump addressed his relationship with Russia and how he will handle his business once taking office.


The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and unverified research about Trump, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry..............................................................................................

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[madaboutharry]

1. Follow the Money

Didn't Deep Throat say that?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. What a mess.

Is this story out there to throw the press off the track? Or are we so f'd up that this also was going on?

Information presently public and available confirms that Erik Prince, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump conspired to intimidate FBI Director James Comey into interfering in, and thus directly affecting, the 2016 presidential election. This conspiracy was made possible with the assistance of officers in the New York Police Department and agents within the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. All of the major actors in the conspiracy have already confessed to its particulars either in word or in deed; moreover, all of the major actors have publicly exhibited consciousness of guilt after the fact. This assessment has already been the subject of articles in news outlets on both sides of the political spectrum, but has not yet received substantial investigation by major media.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-domestic-conspiracy-that-gave-trump-the-election_us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9

[Hortensis]

3. What was happening in darkness is getting a spotlight

shined on it. Too bad for it, because it really needed its secrecy.

So many aspects to this. Officials of Biloxi, MS, where only about 1 in 5 is black, decided to grab this chance bury MLK Day in "Great Americans" Day. Guess what? They're rethought their decision. One guess why.

The Americans of bad character the Kremlin used against us are full of themselves now, but their elevation to the national spotlight is both an aberration and the beginning of this iteration's destruction. It'll just take a little time, but they themselves will help us destroy them. Because of what they are.