U.S. removed top spy from Russia because of con artist

[someoneyouknow]

In 2017, not long after Putin helped the con artist ascend to power, the U.S. extracted one of their most sensitive sources from within the Russian government. This source had been providing invaluable information about the inner workings of the Putin regime for an extended time. Why would such a source of unrivaled, detailed information be removed? U.S. intelligence agencies were worried the con artist might reveal this clandestine source.

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.​

In other words, only five months into his regime and the con artist had already provided his Russian handler with a massive victory.

Knowledge of the Russian covert source's existence was highly restricted within the US government and intelligence agencies. According to one source, there was "no equal alternative" inside the Russian government, providing both insight and information on Putin.​

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

 

[bodysong]

The mystery of Trump’s relationship with – and publicly expressed
regard for – Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, fuels continued speculation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-in-russia-due-to-safety-concerns-under-trump

He is so desperate to twist focus away from what was made public knowledge,
he attacks a woman that said nothing.

Now, he is howling that she responded to his unwarranted attack.

 

[KeithD]

There's no mystery of Putin's ownership of Trump. Trump has been consistently Putin's asset in every instance--right there in public.

 

[JackLuis]

Now! Now can he be removed? Maybe he went out for cofeve and never came back?

Works for me.

 

[magicalmoments]

when Nixon was sucking up to the Chinese was he as chummy with them as trump is with Putin?
Any other presidents who have sucked up to the acknowledged "enemies" of the day?

 

[YDB95]

Any other presidents who have sucked up to the acknowledged "enemies" of the day?

Ronald Reagan with dozens of right-wing dictators because they weren't communists.