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jwhop
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posted May 12, 2017 03:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
May 12, 2017
Russian hacker claims FBI offered him citizenship and a new life if he would confess to hacking Podesta emails on behalf of Putin and Trump
Thomas Lifson

According to a report in Newsweek by Tom O’Connor, http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-investigation-clinton-emails-russia-hack-607538 a Russian hacker who had been detained in Prague at the request of US authorities, was visited multiple times by FBI agents, who pressed him to confess to hacking the Podesta emails at the behest of Putin, and to help Trump. They allegedly (and unsuccessfully) offered generous inducements, to say the least.

Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, has found himself in the middle of an international dispute between Washington and Moscow, at the very center of which lies U.S. allegations that Russia sponsored a series of hacks targeting Democratic Party candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in favor of Republican candidate and current President Donald Trump. On October 5, 2016, days before U.S. intelligence publicly accused Russia of endorsing an infiltration of Democratic Party officials' emails, Nikulin was arrested in Prague at the request of the U.S. on separate hacking charges. Now, Nikulin claims U.S. authorities tried to pin the email scandal on him.

Nikulin was detained in the Czech Republic for allegedly hacking the servers of major sites LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring between 2012 and 2013. While awaiting trial, he claims in an undated letter reportedly given to U.S. Russian-language news site Nastoyashchoe Vremya by Nikulin's lawyer, Martin Sadilek, that the FBI visited him at least a couple of times, offering to drop the charges and grant him U.S. citizenship as well as cash and an apartment in the U.S. if the Russian national confessed to participating in the 2016 hacks of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta's emails in July. (snip)

Nikulin said he refused the deal, but U.S. officials threatened to return. He claims the visits occurred in mid-November 2016 and on February 7 of this year. Czech television has reported at least one FBI visit earlier this year, according to The Guardian, which cited an FBI spokesperson as saying the agency was "aware of the situation," but declining further comment. The FBI is seeking to extradite Nikulin to face trial in the U.S., something he and his lawyers are trying to fight.

So if we are to believe this account, the FBI under James Comey was willing to offer the Whole Package – citizenship and a new life – in order to be able to pin the leak of Podesta’s emails on a Russian in service to the elusive “collusion” between Trump and the Russkies. Such a generous offer, the sort of thing offered to high level enemy defectors, must have crossed Comey’s desk, if it didn’t originate there.

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juniperb
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posted May 12, 2017 07:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In the meantime, your president is openly threatening people on twitter, once again. Including Comey.

He's in danger of getting his phone taken away again. I wonder who gets the honour of putting the President in a time-out.

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jwhop
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posted May 12, 2017 11:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is this the kind of management we want at the FBI? I think not. Comey deserved to be fired.

This is also the crew who paid top price for a flawed personal history of Trump to a former British intelligence agent. None of which could be verified. Imagine, the FBI paying for gossip, rumor, innuendo and outright lies.

President Trump actually did Comey a very big favor by giving him a heads up to not lie under oath to House or Senate investigating committees. That's not a threat. That's a favor.

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Catalina
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posted May 13, 2017 03:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"If we are to believe this account" says it all jwhop. Fake news isnt always against DT. Apparently you want us to believe this account.

Like Edward Snowden, whom Comey has been hounding for some time, I find Cpmeys firing "disturbing".. especially the contortions and contradictions employed to explain it. Trying to scare Comey off of testifying is not behaviour I appreciate in a Ptesident. Its mob tactics

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jwhop
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posted May 13, 2017 04:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Mmmm, excuse me but how could you not believe this press article. It's from one of your favorite leftist sources.....Newsweek!

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