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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (73153)	5/24/2018 2:25:54 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357807

Think of it in terms of planting evidence. The interfaces became either (1) supporting evidence for the main premise of the dossier which was that the Russian government had groomed Trump for at least five years to become POTUS and a Russian advocate, or (2) suspicious activities on which a FISA warrant could be based. In order to build a case of Russian collusion, the FBI would be better served by having members of the campaign engage in actions that could be spun as suspicious. Actions that could be used as supporting evidence. << there would be no reason for the FBI to engage someone to make contact so as to find out about them. The FBI would already have known.>> My argument is that this assumption is a false one. The FBI (or possible another entity) engaged people like Halpert not to uncover evidence but to initiate activites by certain campaign workers that could be used as evidence.

To: Lane3 who wrote (73153)	5/24/2018 2:53:28 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Thomas M. Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357807

> (I assume that you mean by the FBI) Actually it will be shown that John Brennan and his CIA task force were the ones manufacturing the "russian" contacts with the Trump team. After enough mud was slinged at the Trump associates overseas, by Brennan's task force, he then called in Peter Strzok at the FBI so that the FBI could perform domestic surveillance on the Americans working for the Trump campaign. But since they could never disclose this operation to the gang of 8 (at least until after Hillary won the election) the plan required then to use a Counter-Intelligence operation. The great advantage (to Brennan and Comey) of using a Counter-Intelligence operation was that if asked by Congress (even in the secret classified session) they are allowed to essentially lie and they don't have to disclose the operation to the Congressional oversight committee. So they used the Counter-Intelligence operation as the cover to surveil the "loathsome" (in their opinion) Trump campaign.