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The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians
https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russiansBy Matt Tait Friday, June 30, 2017, 10:50 PM
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I read the Wall Street Journals article yesterday on attempts by a GOP operative to recover missing Hillary Clinton emails with more than usual interest. I was involved in the events that reporter Shane Harris described, and I was an unnamed source for the initial story. Whats more, I was named in, and provided the documents to Harris that formed the basis of, this evenings follow-up story, which reported that A longtime Republican activist who led an operation hoping to obtain Hillary Clinton emails from hackers listed senior members of the Trump campaign, including some who now serve as top aides in the White House, in a recruitment document for his effort:
Officials identified in the document include Steve Bannon, now chief strategist for President Donald Trump; Kellyanne Conway, former campaign manager and now White House counselor; Sam Clovis, a policy adviser to the Trump campaign and now a senior adviser at the Agriculture Department; and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who was a campaign adviser and briefly was national security adviser in the Trump administration.
Im writing this piece in the spirit of Benjamin Wittess account of his interactions with James Comey immediately following the New York Times story for which he acted as a source. The goal is to provide a fuller accounting of experiences which were thoroughly bizarre and which I did not fully understand until I read the Journals account of the episode yesterday. Indeed, I still do not fully understand the events I am going to describe, both what they reflected then or what they mean in retrospect. But I can lay out what happened, facts from which readers and investigators can draw their own conclusions.
For the purpose of what follows, I will assume readers are already familiar with the Wall Street Journals reporting on this matter.
My role in these events began last spring, when I spent a great deal of time studying the series of Freedom of Information disclosures by the State Department of Hillary Clintons emails, and posting the parts I found most interestingespecially those relevant to computer securityon my public Twitter account. I was doing this not because I am some particular foe of ClintonsIm notbut because like everyone else, I assumed she was likely to become the next President of the United States, and I believed her emails might provide some insight into key cybersecurity and national security issues once she was elected in November.
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The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians (Original Post)
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mitch96
(13,883 posts)1. Just finished reading the article
Sheds light on some of the information reported on last nite. Cynical me thinks this guy is trying to distance him self from the investigation if it blows up... silly me..
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riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)2. Important article with some good links for the investigation
He doesn't state if Muelllers questioned him yet... if not, he's now going to get an invite from the FBI methinks.