The Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense

[Dashinka 25,920]

Another opinion piece, but it does make sense.  Maybe it is the US intelligence agencies and the mainstream media that are being played by Russia, and they are taking advantage of the entire anti-Trump mentality of the MDL.

 

By 

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Updated May 26, 2017 8:06 p.m. ET

929 COMMENTS

The Trump -Russia business is finally coming into clearer, more rational focus. Former Obama CIA chief John Brennan, in testimony this week, offered no evidence of Trump campaign cooperation with Russian intelligence. Instead he spoke of CIA fears that Russia would try to recruit/blackmail/trick Trump colleagues into being witting or unwitting agents of influence. 

This is a realistic fear of any incoming administration. It’s especially realistic in the case of an “outsider” campaign full of naive, inexperienced and unvetted individuals. But it’s quite different from “collusion.”

The other shoe was dropped by the Washington Post. Finally we have details of an alleged email exchange showing influential liberals trusting in then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch to corral an inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s email practices. According to the Post, this email appears not to exist. It was cited in a secret Russian intelligence document that inspired FBI chief James Comey to usurp the attorney general’s role and publicly clear Mrs. Clinton of intelligence mishandling. Allegedly, he feared the real email (which didn’t exist) would surface and discredit any Justice Department announcement clearing Mrs. Clinton. 

 

Are you now thinking of the Trump dossier circulated by former British agent Christopher Steele, which also felt like a Russian plant? While the political circus in Washington has focused on purloined Democratic emails and fake news spread during the election by Russian bots, the more effective part of Moscow’s effort may have been planting fake leads to prod U.S. enforcement and intelligence agencies to intervene disruptively in the campaign. 

This also should shed new light on today’s anti-Trump leakers in the intelligence agencies: They may be the real unwitting agents of Russian influence.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-russia-story-starts-making-sense-1495834721

Edited May 31, 2017 by Bill & Katya

[Dakine10 5,452]

  

   I believe a paid subscription is needed to view this article, and for that to happen, they really should put a little more analysis into the final product. 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

And interesting theory...did the Russians make Flynn lie to 5he Vice president too?

 

[IAMX 3,055]

3 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Another opinion piece, but it does make sense.  Maybe it is the US intelligence agencies and the mainstream media that are being played by Russia, and they are taking advantage of the entire anti-Trump mentality of the MDL.

 

By 

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Updated May 26, 2017 8:06 p.m. ET

929 COMMENTS

The Trump -Russia business is finally coming into clearer, more rational focus. Former Obama CIA chief John Brennan, in testimony this week, offered no evidence of Trump campaign cooperation with Russian intelligence. Instead he spoke of CIA fears that Russia would try to recruit/blackmail/trick Trump colleagues into being witting or unwitting agents of influence. 

This is a realistic fear of any incoming administration. It’s especially realistic in the case of an “outsider” campaign full of naive, inexperienced and unvetted individuals. But it’s quite different from “collusion.”

The other shoe was dropped by the Washington Post. Finally we have details of an alleged email exchange showing influential liberals trusting in then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch to corral an inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s email practices. According to the Post, this email appears not to exist. It was cited in a secret Russian intelligence document that inspired FBI chief James Comey to usurp the attorney general’s role and publicly clear Mrs. Clinton of intelligence mishandling. Allegedly, he feared the real email (which didn’t exist) would surface and discredit any Justice Department announcement clearing Mrs. Clinton. 

 

Are you now thinking of the Trump dossier circulated by former British agent Christopher Steele, which also felt like a Russian plant? While the political circus in Washington has focused on purloined Democratic emails and fake news spread during the election by Russian bots, the more effective part of Moscow’s effort may have been planting fake leads to prod U.S. enforcement and intelligence agencies to intervene disruptively in the campaign. 

This also should shed new light on today’s anti-Trump leakers in the intelligence agencies: They may be the real unwitting agents of Russian influence.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-russia-story-starts-making-sense-1495834721

Dems and their Russian connections.

[Dashinka 25,920]

4 hours ago, Dakine10 said:

  

   I believe a paid subscription is needed to view this article, and for that to happen, they really should put a little more analysis into the final product. 

As stated, it is an opinion piece, and I do not want to violate VJ TOS by posting the entire article.  But it begs the question, if you cannot read it, why comment on it?

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4 hours ago, ccneat said:

And interesting theory...did the Russians make Flynn lie to 5he Vice president too?

 

I think he did that all by himself, and he lost his job because of it. 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

41 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I think he did that all by himself, and he lost his job because of it. 

And the President still worries about him.  How touching.

[Dashinka 25,920]

23 minutes ago, ccneat said:

And the President still worries about him.  How touching.

I thought the MDL was all about showing who cared the most about something?

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57 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I thought the MDL was all about showing who cared the most about something?

Well.. take the environmentalist issue.. the left try and portray themselves as environmentalists but in their Trump tirades and tantrums following Trump's election, they forced countless volunteers to clean up after their environment destroying messes they made. It's clear for the left this is merely about childish vendettas and being upset at not getting their way. As much as I agree with the left on a number of issues, I refuse to associate with people who are effectively locked in a state of being toddlers. 

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1 hour ago, ccneat said:

And the President still worries about him.  How touching.

stay strong!

[Dakine10 5,452]

5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

As stated, it is an opinion piece, and I do not want to violate VJ TOS by posting the entire article.  But it begs the question, if you cannot read it, why comment on it?

 

     As I stated, what you posted here was more than the WSJ allows people to read without paying. Fair use does not allow you to be posting content for free that the WSJ is charging viewers to read, however the content does not seem to be at a level I would pay money to read. That was my point.