I don’t see how their political affiliations change anything lmao. Why would trump campaign officials meet with a democratic foreign policy expert?
One can take issue w/@ChuckRossDC's attempts to tie Halper to the dossier and his claim that a lifetime Republican asking Republicans questions is "surveillance," but give him his due for breaking this story.https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/997929140136431616 …
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Let's see, which would you prefer: 1) Having uniformed FBI Agents knock on Page and Papa's doors, making investigation public. 2) Having non-LE person FROM THE SAME PARTY do some discreet inquiries.
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TIL when the feds sends a fed informant to spy on you, it's ok as long as the informant is a member of your political party. Even if you're running for president and the informant supports the other party's candidate! Also, it started pre-Downer/FBI contact. What was the basis?
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As to the informant, you can refer to the FBI DIOG--or any other CI case--and find a slew of informants. Usually, they're a lot sketchier than Halper. The FBI did NOT use a lot of techniques v Pap that were available to it at that level.
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But I keep asking GOPers: how would you have the FBI investigate the 4 suspected RU assets on Trump's campaign? WHat techniques would you approve?
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I'm not a GOPer and will still allow the techniques may have been valid. But story of probe origins have shifted so drastically since the beginning, the public absolutely needs to learn what was known by who, when? Were there even 4 suspects when the probe started? Based on what?
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There were individual investigations (not sure what level) into Manafort, Page, and probably Flynn, based on their own actions before Trump. Why CI investigation into whether Trump's campaign conspired w/RU on hack-and-leak is a different Q, which is Papa issue.
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He leaked his name....
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Chuck didn't "leak" anything. And there's no public evidence his stories were results of leaks to him. Nor would it have to be. Don't attack journalism you don't like. Leave that to Trump.
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Definitely not attacking journalism. I have acknowledge that Chuck is a good investigative reporter....
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I saw that NYT & WaPo declined to release the name in their articles. Chuck's article was the first one that I read which alleged that guy was the informant. I thought it was unprofessional.....
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If he sourced it to people who believed he was an informant, then no it's not.
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The FBI said it could endanger the man's life and create other problems for ongoing investigations. IMO, it was irresponsible to publish
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not really sure how getting nunes to leak you stuff is something to be impressed by
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I think this story came from the aides.
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either way my read on it is "collaborator in malfeasance of government officials" much moreso than "impressive shoe-leather investigative reporting"
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I don’t know that
@ChuckRossDC merits any credit here. He’s just a vessel for Nunes et al - fed a story to serve political ends.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Can you shellack Chuck again on Twitter because that was pretty entertaining.
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He puts both the Limited and the Hang in Limited Hang Out.
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