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Disagree w/ you about Strassel. Don't necessarily disagree w/ you on inconsistencies in arguments about how FBI should have handled Trump intel. Either way, implications of what this source was up to will be significant. Will test the denials of spying on Trump campaign proper
Chuck, you're not that dumb. You remember that the denial of spying was about SIGINT. Remember that? What she's talking abt is a foreign partner pursuing HUMINT abt suspected spies. See the difference?
Moreover, what's she's talking about is counterintelligence. I get that it sucks that Trump attracted RU targets like fleas. But to suggest that USG should have done nothing is crazypants.
I mean, where this right wing crusade is at is arguing that Republicans who are suspected spies/spy targets cannot be investigated because they're Republicans. Is that the new rule?
All future campaigns automatically come with a mole and an investigation from the incumbents DOJ etc.
nope
Why not? Precedent says it’s ok now.
So your proposal is that if a campaign is infiltrated w/suspected spying targets bc they did absolutely no vetting and liked people who would work for free, the FBI should do nothing after those suspected targets leave the campaign? Is that it?
Because that is pretty much where the GOP is at now: No one who once served on a POTUS campaign can be investigated as suspected spy targets even after they leave the campaign.
I'm not understanding. To be clear, you think SIGINT was NOT pursued but HUMINT was?
Let's take a step back. What would you like the FBI to do when they develop credible concerns that Russia (or some other adversary) is trying to recruit spies in the US?
Investigate of course. The problem is, they didn't go deep enough. They looked at it surface level. "Steele is trustworthy" so all is good. If they ran down and verified each of his leads we would have no issue. But even Comey said, none of this was verified.
So you're saying you'd like FBI to find ways to chase down leads?
Ok so you're basically admitting that they sent Halper is gain intel. Thats fine. The question now is what did he find
Perhaps not personally. Likely a request to MI6. But that seems like what you want to happen, no? Also, given reports, it was NOT based off dossier exclusively, it was about general leads.
Know what didn't happen though? They didn't get George Pap's call records until the next year, after he was out of transition. Thus far only evidence of LE (as opposed to CI) activity while someone was affiliated w/Trump was Flynn.
They could have been unmasking George Pap. Most of his contacts were with foreign nationals.
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