Wednesday, February 15, 2017

What Were They Talking About?

Via the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.

American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.

The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.

But the intercepts alarmed American intelligence and law enforcement agencies, in part because of the amount of contact that was occurring while Mr. Trump was speaking glowingly about the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. At one point last summer, Mr. Trump said at a campaign event that he hoped Russian intelligence services had stolen Hillary Clinton’s emails and would make them public.

So if there’s no evidence so far that they were colluding with Russia on the hacking, what were they talking about?  Borscht recipes?  Doping the Olympics?  Arranging dates?

3 barks and woofs on “What Were They Talking About?

  1. We’ll never know if the leaders of the majority in Congress has anything to say about it. “Nothing there, folks, move along.” Jeff Sessions Justice Department has better things to do than investigate the administration he worked so hard to put in place. Is it possible John McCain can goose the inquiry into some sort of resolution? Imagine counting on him to work with Elijah Cummings. Stranger things have happened.

  2. It’s been almost a month of the Cheeto and corruption is all around. I hope the ghost of Richard Nixon is whispering in his ear.

  3. Saw video of Flynn saying if he did one tenth of what Hillary did with e-mqils on her server he would be in jail.
    I wish!

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