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After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.
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The N.S.A. even used its official Twitter account nearly a dozen times to send coded messages to the Russian.
The Russian claimed to have access to a staggering collection of secrets that included everything from the computer code for the cyberweapons stolen from the N.S.A. and C.I.A. to what he said was a video of Mr. Trump consorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, according to American and European officials and the Russian, who agreed to be interviewed in Germany on the condition of anonymity. There remains no evidence that such a video exists.
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Several American intelligence officials said they made clear that they did not want the Trump material from the Russian — who was suspected of having murky ties to Russian intelligence and to Eastern European cybercriminals. He claimed the information would link the president and his associates to Russia. But instead of providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced unverified and possibly fabricated information involving Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and purported Russian intelligence data.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: carewemust
Open up an incognito browser and paste the link there.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Grambler
I wonder if Strzok and Page discussed this too in their texting?
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Grambler
I haven't read the NYT article yet but I just finished reading one from James Risen at The Intercept. And it doesn't appear there is any involvement of the FBI or DOJ. It's the NSA and CIA.
The Intercept - U.S. Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents — and the Russians Offered Trump-Related Material, Too
It also doesn't sound like they wanted to touch the Trump-related material based on Risen's sources. Risen if you'll remember is the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist (his Pulitzer was for uncovering an NSA surveillance program) who was targeted by both the Bush and Obama administrations.
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
It seems that top level people at the FBI were frothing at the mouth t get anything on Trump.
Remember Schumer telling trump that the intel community would find ways to get him?
Well apparently he wasnt kidding.
originally posted by: ausername
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
The hacking tools angle doesn't seem plausible, $100,000 seriously?
Imagine what those "tools" would be worth to professional hackers.