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NSA Sent Coded Messages From Its Twitter To Communicate With Foreign Spies (gizmodo.com)
Matt Novak reports via Gizmodo: During the first Cold War, American and British spies would sometimes place coded messages in newspaper classified ads to communicate with each other. And according to new reports in the New York Times and The Intercept, the National Security Agency (NSA) has updated the tactic, using its public Twitter account to send secret messages to at least one Russian spy. That's just one relatively small detail in much more salacious articles about NSA and CIA agents traveling to Germany in an effort to recover cyberweapons that had been stolen from U.S. intelligence agencies. A Russian spy allegedly offered up the stolen cyber tools to the Americans in exchange for $10 million, eventually lowering his price to just $1 million. The Russian spy allegedly claimed to even have dirt on President Trump.
According to the reports, the unnamed Russian met with U.S. spies in person in Germany, and the NSA sometimes communicated with the Russian spy by sending roughly a dozen coded messages from the NSA's Twitter account. The one important question: Were the messages sent via direct message or were they sent out as public tweets? The New York Times report leaves some ambiguity, but according to James Risen in The Intercept they were very public.
According to the reports, the unnamed Russian met with U.S. spies in person in Germany, and the NSA sometimes communicated with the Russian spy by sending roughly a dozen coded messages from the NSA's Twitter account. The one important question: Were the messages sent via direct message or were they sent out as public tweets? The New York Times report leaves some ambiguity, but according to James Risen in The Intercept they were very public.
Peace of mind comes without Twitter.
I repeat: Peace of mind comes without Twitter..
So here are the facts on Russian collusion...
Evidence of collusion with Russia
Hillary Clinton (D) paid Russia for dossier on Trump
State Dept worked with Clinton and Russia on dossier (See Grassley memo)
Russian dossier used by FBI/DOJ to get illegal wireptap on Trump campaign
Adam Schiff (D) attempted to get nude photos of Trump from Russia
Mark Warner (D) attempted to get information on Trump and "not leave paper trail"
NSA attempted to get naked photos of Trump (see this story)
No evidence of collusion with Russia
Trump
Carter Page, followed by all the government since 2013 and they haven't found anything to charge him with. They seem to be telling us going to Russia is now illegal.
Special council looking into collusion with Russia
Looking at Trump, using info from Comey (FBI colluded with Russia) which originally came from Clinton (who colluded with Russia).
Not looking at the LONG list of people who DID collude with Russia.
Now what is the average US citizen supposed to think about their government about all this?
The problem here is that Carter Page appears to have been one of *our* spies working for the FBI who helped bust some Russian scammers with a wiretapped binder and there are plenty of reports about it. He also didn't work for Trump for very long at all. You're relying on a lot of secret "evidence" and ignoring how people are leaking rumors to various media outlets to "corroborate" themselves. You do realize how easy it is to pull that sort of nonsense off, right? I mean, right here on Slashdot, we infamously saw the post making that point by saying that one could just as easily claim to have secret evidence you wet the bed... mere days before the dossier about prostitutes peeing on Obama's bed went public.
Meanwhile, we have FBI agents who join that team texting each other about secret societies, insurance policies and telling us that Weiner's laptop was full of classified Hillary emails and they really reopened the investigation just to seize them from the NYPD and declare it a nothingburger before that could get out. Apparently they were too dumb to actually read any of the emails and notice classification markers on thousands of emails, so Comey goes on and mumbles that it's just "a few portion markings" (never mind she'd already lied to the FBI about that, but no need for 18 USC 1001 charges for lying about improper storage of classified material, apparently) and they also hide the fact that Obama knew the whole time, as fact which Hillary's lawyer Cheryl Mills made clear. You can see his press department lying about that around 44:55 in the linked video.
Anyhow, as should have been obvious to anyone with half a brain, Muller isn't going to come out with a damned thing until the mid-terms, at which time we'll start to see various leaks and whatnot building up to a climax right at the election. Not that it helps much, there simply aren't all that many seats for Dems to pick up, but then again, I shouldn't underestimate the crazy tricks...