Michael Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent Yahoo News Jan. 11, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story. The man behind the sensational story concerning information the Russian government had supposedly collected about Donald Trump is a former British intelligence operative and was a longtime intelligence source for the U.S. government who had assisted the FBI during an investigation into corruption […]
Geoffrey Smith Jan 11, 2017 The disputed intelligence dossier compiled for the Democratic Party against Donald Trump is obviously unverifiable. Intelligence work is supposed to work that way. Nobody gives receipts for most salacious of the alleged conduct, and nobody says “of course you can quote me on that.” Everything is deniable. And by the time the claims come out, […]
Luke Harding Wednesday 11 January 2017 The dossier includes lurid details from Trump’s 2013 visit to Moscow and claims an ‘extensive conspiracy’ between his team and the Kremlin – is it true? CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story in The Guardian. The big picture What does the dossier which John McCain passed to FBI chief […]
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By Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein, CNN Updated 10:24 PM ET, Tue January 10, 2017 Intel chiefs inform Trump of Russian claims 11:30 (CNN) Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US […]
By ANDREW HIGGINS and ANDREW E. KRAMER JAN. 11, 2017 When the Soviet Union set up the Intourist hotel and travel company under Stalin, the bellboys, drivers, cooks and maids all worked for the N.K.V.D., the secret police agency later known as the K.G.B. Also on the payroll were the prostitutes deployed to entrap and blackmail visiting foreign politicians […]
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/6/17 Trump lies about intelligence report on Russia easily spotted. Rachel Maddow points out that because Americans can read the declassified version of the intelligence report on Russia, we can see that Donald Trump is lying about what the report says about the effect on the election and the hacking of Republican targets. […]
By DAVID E. SANGER JAN. 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, personally “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election,” and turned from seeking to “denigrate” Hillary Clinton to developing “a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The conclusions were part of […]
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and DAVID E. SANGER JAN. 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report they delivered on Friday to Mr. […]
By JONATHAN KARL & MORGAN WINSOR Jan 5, 2017, 12:44 PM Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer today flatly denied that President-elect Donald Trump was considering reported plans to reform the nation’s top intelligence agencies. The denial comes after a senior Trump transition official, speaking to ABC News earlier today, confirmed a Wednesday night […]
