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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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.
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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Possibly a different Q. If Papa was setup by Downer (and there's a variety of details that make that plausible), next question is where the info on Papa/Russia actually originated. Why was Mifsud meeting w/ Boris J in UK in 2017 if everyone knew he was a Putin asset? Lots of Qs
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If Downer set up Papa, why didn't ANYONE use that set up? The entire notion is crazy, frankly, bc it is utterly inconsistent with everything that came later.
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High-level diplomat w/ intel connections, Hakluyt. Appears he requested meeting w/ Papa (why?), and then Papa who's attempting to engage in treason w/ Russia just blabs to Downer about it unprompted? Maybe. I'm waiting for more details on all of this.
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Maybe Papa shouldn't have blabbed? No one has presented any evidence he was coerced.
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No but we now have evidence another high-level guy w/ intel connections was going around inviting Trump people to chat about Russia and Hillary's emails. So, is it impossible that Downer was doing something similar?
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WHat do you think spooks and diplomats do? OF COURSE they were meeting with people to try and learn stuff.
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