Well...... NYT: U.S. Officials Doubt Donald Trump Has Direct Link to Russia

[MyNameIsKhan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html

WASHINGTON — For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead — which they ultimately came to doubt — about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank.

Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. And even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.

Hillary Clinton’s supporters, angry over what they regard as a lack of scrutiny of Mr. Trump by law enforcement officials, pushed for these investigations. In recent days they have also demanded that James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., discuss them publicly, as he did last week when he announced that a new batch of emails possibly connected to Mrs. Clinton had been discovered.

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F.B.I. officials spent weeks examining computer data showing an odd stream of activity to a Trump Organization server and Alfa Bank. Computer logs obtained by The New York Times show that two servers at Alfa Bank sent more than 2,700 “look-up” messages — a first step for one system’s computers to talk to another — to a Trump-connected server beginning in the spring. But the F.B.I. ultimately concluded that there could be an innocuous explanation, like a marketing email or spam, for the computer contacts.



I DONOT THINK THIS WILL MOVE WITH "COMEY" IN CHARGE...

[STLDEM]

1. You've got to be fucking kidding me.

So you mean to tell me the FBI can shut this down but they can't come with more facts about the Clinton email story? Spam? WHy the secret server dedicated to Alfa in the first place? They're covering for him.

[MyNameIsKhan]

2. Well Comey is covering.... FBI is completely broken... we need a new leadership

[MattP]

3. Who wrote this Judith Miller?

[LisaL]

5. If the goal is to just disrupt an election, why are they just releasing emails from one side?

I am sure there are all kind of interesting things in Trump's campaign emails.

[GeorgeGist]

7. Hopefully, NYT will look foolish ...

and Comey will have resigned by Friday.

It's always the coverup.

[marybourg]

10. How many years did Trump keep trumpeting

debunked theories?

I say Hillary should keep bringing this up. Along with tax returns. And assaults on women. And stiffing vendors.

Going high is fine when in office. Not so great on campaign trail.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

11. Any story that quotes Breitbart has got to be bogus.

In an article on the conservative news site Breitbart, Mr. Stone denied having links to Russians and called the accusations “the new McCarthyism.”

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[blitzen]

12. No "direct" link because it's all routed through Ukraine...

the right-wing rogue faction of the FBI is desperately feeding bullshit to these NYT reporters

[uponit7771]

15. Strawman argument, he doesn't have to have DIRECT ties ... INDIRECT ties are bad enough

[Dawson Leery]

17. There are more Robert Hansens in the FBI.

Time to get them out!

[geek tragedy]

18. NY Times plays stenographer for wingnuts in the NY FBI office nt

NY FBI office is a bunch of Breitbart-reading Trumpers.