BREAKING: CIA extracted a major Russian Intelligence asset...

[brooklynite]

...because they were worried that Trump would reveal it...

Link to tweet

[BSdetect]

1. And still he remains intact in the WH

[Celerity]

2. Rump and Moscow Mitch are traitorous bastards nt

[Sunny Daze]

3. There are no words

to describe how pathetic this information along with the so called president are...he always proves he can and will sink lower.

[superpatriotman]

4. Just throw it on the pile

Of burning garbage that is the Needy Amin administration

[Flaleftist]

12. We're going to need a longer ladder.

That pile is getting pretty damn high.

[Captain Zero]

49. Add it to the impeachment investigation

and impeachment charges. This is why I say next April is fine for the impeachment. There is something new to add every day.

[calimary]

57. I don't want to wait til next April!

[Bradshaw3]

52. Needy Amin!

That's a good one.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Smart move on the part of the CIA

the source would likely be dead otherwise

[Enoki33]

56. I find it somewhat difficult to believe the source was removed

on the sole basis of the possible mishandling of vital information. There are ways of circumventing that. There is much more below the surface way too damning at this time for public exposure. Maybe for me it is way too much John le Carre.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

59. If this person was an critical agent, wouldn't Moscow

Know who it was immediately...but just looking at who was all of a sudden missing?

[machoneman]

6. Yes and a good move. But, note that the report states that Trump and some WH staff....

were alerted to the extraction(s) BEFORE they occurred.

One can bet that a.) they lied to Trump about the when....the agent was already safely away before they told Trump as the CIA isn't foolish enough to alert him beforehand and b.) it was likely more than one single agent although the most senior one is who they mentioned. Why tell Trump otherwise?

One can also bet our intelligence agencies alerted every single friendly foreign intelligence agency to be real careful or stop sending intelligence through normal channels at the same time. No doubt most allies see what the CIA saw: a Russian agent in the WH!

[Captain Zero]

50. And then CIA watched to see if Trump and WH staff tried to alert Russians about the extractions

with the names they were given, which could have been real or not. But it would have flushed out who 'on our side' is really a TRAITOR. Maybe I've read too many Robert Ludlum novels ?

[Iliyah]

7. Damn . . .

What say you Republican party?

[Scarsdale]

48. It was President Obama's fault.

Isn't that their usual excuse?

[kentuck]

8. Deep state!

[Roland99]

9. More detail from CNN...

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html

Washington(CNN)...

A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.

The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.

...

The removal happened at a time of wide concern in the intelligence community about mishandling of intelligence by Trump and his administration. Those concerns were described to CNN by five sources who served in the Trump administration, intelligence agencies and Congress.

Those concerns continued to grow in the period after Trump's Oval Office meeting with Kislyak and Lavrov. Weeks after the decision to extract the spy, in July 2017, Trump met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg and took the unusual step of confiscating the interpreter's notes. Afterward, intelligence officials again expressed concern that the President may have improperly discussed classified intelligence with Russia, according to an intelligence source with knowledge of the intelligence community's response to the Trump-Putin meeting.

[SWBTATTReg]

43. Traitor. Deserves to have something done to him, like other traitors are, prison, etc. NT

[Skraxx]

10. I Would Have Hoped This Would Have Happened Much Earlier Than it Did!

But this does not bode well for Trump. The CIA is compartmentalizing from HIM!

[Flaleftist]

11. What took so long?

Edit: Oh, nevermind

"The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak."

[FakeNoose]

13. The agent left Russia already in 2017

As soon as the CIA saw how Chump blabbed everything to Kislyak in the Oval Office, they knew they had a problem. Their top spy who had access to Putin would be outed if the CIA didn't get him out of there as soon as possible.

This information tells us something important - the CIA must have known that Chump was a Russian agent even before the 2016 election. WTF CIA, when were you planning to tell the rest of us?

[bucolic_frolic]

17. To catch a fish, think like a fish

To catch them all, cast as wide a net as possible.

Political neutrality limited the possible methods.

[tblue37]

40. He's been on their radar since 1987. nt

[Turbineguy]

14. Quid pro quo

OK. now it's time for the Russians to extract their agents from the White house and the U.S. Senate.

[safeinOhio]

15. Only secrets he can keep are

his taxes.

[unblock]

18. lol!

[marble falls]

16. Will the Russians extract their top intellegence asset before or after the House impeaches him?

[keithbvadu2]

21. Two most likely happenings when Trump is out of office?

1. Vlad calls in Donald's loans?

2. Polonium 210?

[DemoTex]

19. Valerie Plame for Congress

Now, more than ever.

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Either way, Russia won. Catch the spy, cool. Spy leaves, also cool.

Those assets are not easy to come by.

[Lonestarblue]

23. Our intelligence about Russia's actions has been seriously compromised by Trump.

Not only has the CIA been forced to pull experienced agents from Russia—agents it may have taken a decade or more to implant safely—but Trump has also managed to get some of the most experienced FBI agents with knowledge of Russian tactics fired. He is a Russian asset and has been for years, most likely when they bailed him out of bankruptcy in the late 80s.

I know that many Republicans like McConnell, Nunes, Jordan, and others are corrupt as can be, but surely Russia cannot own all of them. What is wrong with these elected representatives that they are willing to stay silent while Trump tries to destroy our national intelligence services and opens the door to top US secrets to Vladimir Putin! Are there no honest, patriotic Republicans left in Congress?

[defacto7]

26. To answer your last question... no.

[tblue37]

39. Kompromat. Just think of how Lindsey did a complete 180 after just one foot game

with Trump. It was like the horse's head in the bed in "The Godfather."

[keithbvadu2]

22. Putting money into Trump was the best investment Putin ever made.

[extvbroadcaster]

24. I was just watching this

Seems everyone is afraid, and has been, that Trump is either an idiot who can't handle classified intel or he's a Russian mole.

[spanone]

25. I'll go with Russian Mole.

[ffr]

32. Mole

And a greedy self-serving one at that.

A court martial will be too good for him.

[imaginary girl]

27. Comey was fired the day before

I believe Coney was fired the day before Lavrov's visit.

[Ilsa]

28. Yet trumpers won't believe this news on CNN or

any other network, even fox, unless trump says it is true.

[ffr]

29. How many years lost???? Now we're running blind.

Good job FREE-DUMB idiots!

[Ilsa]

30. All of those other assets were hauled away by

the FSB or GRU and were never heard from again.

How much you want to bet that our allies are redacting information from their intel to us unless they have been assured it won't fall into mf45's hands (or Ivanka's or Jared's or Jr's)?

[ffr]

34. +1

And Moscow Mitch running blocking maneuvers to make sure Russia stays in control of America.

[democrank]

31. Impeach that thug

[ffr]

33. I don't recall the CIA having to do this when Clinton was president.

I wounder what makes them suspect tRump and the KGOP?

Hmmm.

[tblue37]

37. When Trump gave highest level intel to Sislyak in the Oval office, the intel community

realized that he could easily expose the spy, especially since he was going to meet with Putin in Helsinki.

Even if not on purpose or directly, Trump could reveal info that Russians could use to figure out the spy. That's what he did with Sislyak: he revealed info just to brag about how great his intel was, like a grade school kid bragging that he knew a big, important secret.

And then there's his cuddly relationship with Putin. They couldn't even be sure he wouldn't give him the info on purpose.

[tblue37]

35. They also had to change his identity and relocate him to protect him from assassination. nt

[UCmeNdc]

36. What went on at the 2016 GOP convention between Russian spy master and the GOP leadership？

This question has not been answered？

[Enoki33]

38. This action by the CIA is further confirmation that tRump, and likely

other members of his family, are indeed Russian moles. Cannot imagine the turmoil, frustration and sense of national betrayal they have been undergoing. They are patriots who have put their lives on the line. One very powerful mole will severely damage their network, but it will not completely cripple it. Rest assured there is a plan B for extracting information out of Russia that the traitors will never see.

[JHB]

41. I know I don't really have to remind anyone here, but,...

...on general principles, never let something like this come up without highlighting the foam cannoning that went on about Hillary's "carelessness" about security in her emails.

The portion of that which was accurate was 1) well below the the threshold where authorities thought action was necessary (except Comey, who added his own stream to the foam), and 2) it amounts to a mite on a flyspeck on a tiddlywinks piece compared to what Trump has done.

And the whole goddamn Republican Party aids and abets him. None of them in power balk. Occasional muttering in their cups, but no real action.

[Collimator]

42. To those who are convinced that "The Deep State"

is running everything from behind the scenes and has some profound power over national affairs:

If this were true, why would Trump still be in power?

[maxsolomon]

44. this story would make a hell of an ad on FauxNews

if some Dem PAC had the balls to run it. maybe Tom Steyer after he withdraws his candidacy?

the amazing thing is, as the GOP has proven, IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER IF IT'S TRUE.

[bitterross]

45. Don't Expect the national security hawks to say a word.

Not going to happen in today's world - unless it's a Democrat doing it.

[Karadeniz]

46. Thank God for the Deep State! ❤

[jmowreader]

47. When are our intelligence agencies going to learn?

Never, NEVER tell Donald Trump anything that isn't open source.

All our agencies have a desk whose sole purpose is to analyze material from the civilian press - newspapers, magazines, radio and television. You can get enough information to keep Trump as informed as he wants to be from that source, and by only telling him things you found in the New York Times (without, of course, telling him where you got it) you can protect your classified collectors.

[blm]

51. This alone should be impeachable

[Blue Owl]

53. It's no secret tRump can't keep his fat mouth shut

n/t

[sellitman]

54. I wonder how anyone involved in intel can trust him?

It is impossible to get assets like this in place. Ruined by this President. Can we Impeach yet Nancy?

[Desert Dem]

55. But what about the emails!

[Skittles]

58. and Trump questions the patriotism of FOOTBALL PLAYERS