FBI mole who spied on the Trump campaign has been leaked to the media.
The New York Times and Washington Post have the name, and while they have no released it, for fear of “harming national security,” it’s all but BLATANTLY OBVIOUS who it is.
The…
FBI mole who spied on the Trump campaign has been leaked to the media.
The New York Times and Washington Post have the name, and while they have no released it, for fear of “harming national security,” it’s all but BLATANTLY OBVIOUS who it is.
The identity of the mole is not officially confirmed , but widely recognized as Stefan Halper.
From Washington Examiner
The identify of an FBI informant has been leaked to at least two media outlets, even as the Justice Department refuses to disclose that information to Congress, but these newsrooms are refraining from publishing this individual’s name out of concern for national security and the safety of this person and his or her sources.
Still, the level of description about the informant provided in these reports has prompted rampant speculation of who the source may be, all this amid Republican furor this week about a possible effort to spy on President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Two reports published Friday evening, one by the New York Times and the other by the Washington Post, describe the informant as a American academic who teaches in the United Kingdom and met with up to three members of the Trump campaign. These include campaign advisers Carter Page, who was surveilled by the government, and George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI and agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
The FBI reportedly launched its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election after it got word that Papadopoulos learned that the Russians obtained thousands of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails months before WikiLeaks published them.
The reports from the Times and the Post come after Trump seized on unverified reports this week, and rallying cries by his allies, about the possibility of a spy “for political purposes.”
“Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for p..
