RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT

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Y'all don't understand how satisfying the last few days have been when it comes to shytting on Trump supporters on Facebook:wow: I've been quietly watching these fukks coast along, willingly ignorant of just how fukked their God is. Watching these nikkas post pro-Trump memes and making light of this "pointless" investigation. I never said shyt:mjgrin:
Then the shoes started dropping. I've been living my best life posting articles after every conviction, plea deal, or immunity declaration. Got these nikkas out here with the "I eat ass" face:mjlit:
WATTBA:blessed:
 

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Did y’all forget when Obama signed that executive order on his last day in office about intelligence agency sharing intel?

:BarackObamashhh:

N.S.A. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications


Did Obama Expand the NSA's Power So Trump Couldn't Go Further?

Obama Administration Releases Long Awaited New E.O. 12333 Rules on Sharing of Raw Signals Intelligence Information Within IC



I keep telling y’all. This was inevitable. All the leaks was setting the public up to oust this traitor.

A lot of it was theater and idiots thought they could alter the course of this final chapter.
 

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Another bombshell.

Thanks to trump this dude shut down legitimate spying efforts.


Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin’s Plans for Midterms
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Vital C.I.A. informants in or close to the Kremlin have largely gone silent ahead of November’s midterm elections, American officials said.CreditCreditChristopher Furlong/Getty Images


By Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosenberg

  • Aug. 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia’s intentions to try to tip the American presidential election — and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward — thanks in large part to informants close to President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial details.

But two years later, the vital Kremlin informants have largely gone silent, leaving the C.I.A. and other spy agencies in the dark about precisely what Mr. Putin’s intentions are for November’s midterm elections, according to American officials familiar with the intelligence.

The officials do not believe the sources have been compromised or killed. Instead, they have concluded they have gone to ground amid more aggressive counterintelligence by Moscow, including efforts to kill spies, like the poisoning in March in Britain of a former Russian intelligence officer that utilized a rare Russian-made nerve agent.

Current and former officials also said the expulsion of American intelligence officers from Moscow has hurt collection efforts. And officials also raised the possibility that the outing of an F.B.I. informant under scrutiny by the House intelligence committee — an examination encouraged by President Trump — has had a chilling effect on intelligence collection.

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The officials, seeking to protect methods of collection from Russia, would not provide details about lost sources, but acknowledged the degradation in the information collected from Russia. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal classified information. A spokesman for the C.I.A. declined to comment.

To determine what the Russian government is up to, the United States employs multiple forms of intelligence, including intercepted communications and penetrated computer networks.


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Emergency crews investigate the site where Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found poisoned in Britain. C.I.A. informants in Russia are believed to be underground, fearing aggressive campaigns by Moscow to hunt spies.CreditBen Stansall/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The United States continues to intercept Russian communication, and the flow of that intelligence remains strong, said current and former officials. And Russian informants could still meet their C.I.A. handlers outside Russia, further from Moscow’s counterintelligence apparatus.

But people inside or close to the Kremlin remain critical to divining whether there is a strategy behind seemingly scattershot efforts to undermine American institutions.

Spies and informants overseas also give American intelligence agencies early warning about influence campaigns, interference operations or other attempts to compromise the United States.
That information, in turn, can improve the ability of domestic agencies, like the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I., to quickly identify and attempt to stop those efforts.

Because clandestine meetings can take months to set up and complete, a lengthy lag can pass before the C.I.A. realizes a key source has gone silent, according to former officials. It is rare for the agency to discover immediately that informants have eroded or are running scared. Only after several missed meetings might C.I.A. officers and analysts conclude that a source has decided it is too dangerous to pass information.

In 2016, American intelligence officials began to realize the scope of Russia’s efforts when they gathered intelligence suggesting that Moscow wanted to use Trump campaign officials, wittingly or not, to help sow chaos. John O. Brennan, the former director of the C.I.A., testified before the House Intelligence Committee in May 2017 about a tense period a year earlier when he came to believe that Mr. Putin was trying to steer the outcome toward a victory for Mr. Trump.

Mr. Brennan described the broad outlines of the intelligence in his congressional testimony, and his disclosures backed up the accounts of the information provided by the current and former officials. “I was convinced in the summer that the Russians were trying to interfere in the election. And they were very aggressive,” Mr. Brennan told lawmakers.

This year, Mr. Coats issued a series of warnings saying the Russian government, and Mr. Putin in particular, is intent on undermining American democratic systems.

At an appearance this month at the White House, Mr. Coats said intelligence agencies “continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by Russia to try and weaken and divide the United States.” He added that those efforts “cover issues relevant to the elections.”

But officials said there has been no concrete intelligence pointing to Mr. Putin ordering his own intelligence units to wade into the election to push for a certain outcome, beyond a broad chaos campaign to undermine faith in American democracy. Intelligence agencies do not believe Mr. Putin has changed his strategy; instead, officials believe they simply do not have the same level of access to information from the Kremlin’s inner circle.


Intelligence collection appears to have suffered after Russia expelled officials from American diplomatic outposts there in retaliation for the United States removing 60 Russian officials this year, said John Sipher, a 28-year veteran of the C.I.A. who served in Moscow in the 1990s and later ran the agency’s Russia program.

The C.I.A.’s Moscow presence, according to former officers, was always small, at least in light of the importance of the target, the difficulty of spycraft and the amount of counterintelligence the Russians dedicated to thwarting American spies.

“The Russians kicked out a whole bunch of our people,” Mr. Sipher said. “Our station in Moscow is probably really small now and they are under incredible surveillance.”

Mr. Putin has also said he is intent on killing so-called traitors, comments he made just ahead of the high-profile assassination attempt of the former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei V. Skripal.

“The Russians are very focused and upset,” Mr. Sipher said. “They have shown they are willing to kill sources.”

Informants close to Putin are very rare, according to current and former officials. The United States, in recent years, has had only a few
, and at times been reliant on only one or two for the most important insights on Mr. Putin, according to former officials. If those people go silent for their own protection, it can make it very hard for the agency to look inside Moscow.

The United States still should have a clear view of Mr. Putin’s strategies and intention to interfere in Democratic elections, said Michael Carpenter, a Russia expert and former Obama administration official. He pointed to fake social media accounts created as part of Russian intelligence operations that have drummed up support for white nationalists and the Black Lives Matter movement, and have supported far right, far left and pro-Russian candidates in the United States and in Europe.

“Clearly Russia is playing both sides of controversial issues precisely to sow chaos. But that said it is not just chaos, there are certain candidates Russia prefers to see in office,”
said Mr. Carpenter, now at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. “The Russians are trying to support anti-establishment and pro-Russian candidates, not just in the U.S. but everywhere.”

Still, there is little doubt about the crucial nature of informants, said Seth G. Jones, who leads the transnational threats project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy research organization.

“It is essential to have sources coming from inside the government. It was during the Cold War and it is today,” Mr. Jones said. “There are multiple ways collect intelligence against your adversary, in this case the Russian government. But sources can provide you things you might not otherwise get, like documents, intelligence assessments.”

Sources can provide photographs of Russian documents and intelligence that are hard to intercept electronically, and that can help the United States figure out what Russia is targeting, not just with its election meddling but with its attempts to infiltrate financial systems, the power grid and other critical infrastructure, Mr. Jones said.


The full reasons the sources have gone silent are not known. But current and former officials also said the exposure of sources inside the United States has also complicated matters.

This year, the identity of an F.B.I. informant, Stefan Halper, became public after House lawmakers sought information on him and the White House allowed the information to be shared. Mr. Halper, an American academic based in Britain, had been sent to talk to Trump campaign advisers who were under F.B.I. scrutiny for their ties to Russia.

Current American officials said there is no direct evidence that the exposure of Mr. Halper has been cited by overseas informants as a source of concern.

But the officials said that some allies have cited the exposure of the informant and other intelligence leaks in curbing some of the intelligence they share. And former spies believe that, long-term, the exposure will hurt overseas collection.

“Publicizing sources is really bad for the business,” Mr. Sipher said. “The only thing we can offer people is that we will do anything in our power to protect them. And anything that wears away at that trust, hurts.”

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I will only tip my hat to John McCain if he drops all pretense of statesmanship and buries Trump by leaking what he knows on his way out.

McCain is part of the reason why we have the dossier as a road map.

Finish the job and bury this traitor.
 

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So is that all about trump paying off woman to be quite ?:dahell:
 

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This nikka said he violated campaign law under the direction of a candidate...

We got him brehs...:blessed:

Who got my Mueller/VC it's over gif?

What a great day for the thread.

I love all you brehs free daps and reps. We been holding a lot of Ls and it’s been feeling like a bizzaro world with the truth as the main victim. Everyday I feel like the world is moving closer to an idiocracy style fascism and I’m usually very pessimistic about all this stuff.

But seeing this spoiled rich racist cac criminal money laundering crooked piece of shyt leech get gaveled by Robert Mueller legit made my month. No hyperbole. This was such a relief.

@ExodusNirvana

Chis Matthews dropping flexbombs as we speak. Omarosa basically saying “y’all don’t get gassed off these verdicts, y’all nikkas still stuck in the tape era when we in the dvd era now nikka, it’s 2004 and I’m coming correct on these nikkas”

THE CHRIS MATTHEWS SHOW THE CHRIS MATTHEWS SHOW


ARI DONT GET GASSED

Had no idea she had a book coming out. I thought she was just telling all this stuff cause she was mad.
I'm cool off her, seems like she basically trying to profit off all this and it's just perfect timing with the first pleas being made in the investigation



Was it @LeVraiPapi or @The Fukin Prophecy who used to talk about how the FBI and especially Mueller take tremendous pleasure in squeezing your family and your finances before they fukk you over? Or was it @Call Me James or @BigMoneyGrip?

Either way. Prophets. :salute:

Can't recall, but the feds never and never lose one way or another, if they want you bad enough.

He should be banned for pocket watching. :mjlol:

@Broke Wave was just panicking and impatient. Forgive him.

Taking with a massive grain of salt



nope breh, these dudes are hot now. That's why you won't hear from them anymore at all.

he could have, but Obama had to put sanctions on Russia. It was time for their asset to get to work.

none of these people would be facing charges were it not for him winning POTUS.

It was set up to happen no matter what. Preet was already deep in that investigation. Cohen probably knew and that's why he started recording
 
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