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2019-09-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US pulled top spy from Russia due to fear Trump would leak info on him — report
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Fake news from the coup plotters. If you read the linked article (CNN) to the end it says:

Those concerns grew in early 2017 after the US intelligence community released its public report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which said Putin himself ordered the operation. The intelligence community also shared a classified version of the report with the incoming Trump administration, and it included highly protected details on the sources behind the intelligence. Senior US intelligence officials considered extracting at least one Russian asset at the time but did not do so, according to the former senior intelligence official.

I.e. It was the intel agencies' attempts to discredit the new President that endangered the asset.
Posted by Lumpy Gletle1053 2019-09-10 01:01||   2019-09-10 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 So they burnt a source to try to make their lies seem realistic?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-09-10 07:05||   2019-09-10 07:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Putin "How the hell did we lose to these people?!"
Sidekick "Did we lose? Let wait a few years - Trump revolution won't last."
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-10 08:05||   2019-09-10 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 CNN Russian Spy Exfiltration Story Trips All The Bull**** Alarms On Two Continents
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-10 08:47||   2019-09-10 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Not the first time CNN has been caught in peddling a fable. On 7 June 1998 a controversial version of the above events was broadcast during the premiere of the Cable News Network's NewsStand CNN & Time in a report entitled "Valley of Death". The segment alleged that Operation Tailwind had been devised simply to eliminate a group of Americans who had defected to the enemy and were holed up in a Laotian village.(Wiki: Operation Tailwind)
Posted by magpie 2019-09-10 09:58||   2019-09-10 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Obvious BS. Trump is Putin's nightmare. Trump has:
pulled out of the ABM Treaty - a massive strategic defeat for Russia.

Under Trump, we've sold our most potent missile defense system to both Poland and Sweden. He reversed Obama's policy of refusing lethal military aid to Ukraine. He reversed Obama's Syria policy and directly confronted Russia on the ground, killing scores of Russian mercenaries and soldiers in Syria.

He tripled defense initiatives to deter Russian aggression in Europe, staged maneuvers on Russia's borders, increased the anti-Russian defense budget by ~50%.

Trump sanctioned ~40 oligarchs and Russian officials, expanded the Magnitsky sanctions list, closed consulates & diplomatic annexes, expelled 60 diplomats. 

For this idiotic Trump = Putin's Puppet narrative to be true, Putin would have to be either suicidal or a completely incompetent fool or a traitor to his own country.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-10 11:51||   2019-09-10 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 They have the story backwards. CIA pulls out convert spy from Trump administration on fears Putin will reveal too much.
Posted by Airandee 2019-09-10 14:24||   2019-09-10 14:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ^LOL
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-10 14:31||   2019-09-10 14:31|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^ Upvote!
Posted by magpie 2019-09-10 15:25||   2019-09-10 15:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Pompeo blasted CNN about this completely false "Bombshell". State does the same.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-09-10 17:35||   2019-09-10 17:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Two great pieces of news today; Madcow is being sued for $10mil and the NRA is suing the SF board.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-09-10 22:36||   2019-09-10 22:36|| Front Page Top

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