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It is reported that the CIA payed for a sex tape of President Donald Trump which was used to influence him.
The CIA harshly countered.
The CIA has slammed "fictional" reports in The Intercept and the New York Times alleging that American spies paid a Russian operative $100,000 last September for what they were told were stolen NSA cyberweapons and a videotape of President Trump engaged with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.
A sex tape of a guy like Trump is not uncommon.
Detail of the transactions and how it went down are like this.
Shortly after Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen of The Intercept published his report on Friday alleging that the US intelligence community had "opened a secret communications channel with the Russian operatives" which involved the CIA transporting cash "to the CIA's station in Berlin to complete the transaction," Matthew Rosenberg of the New York Times published a similar story, adding that the cash was routed through an indirect channel, and delivered in a Berlin hotel room last September.
The CIA said this:
In reaction, the CIA called the report "fictional," telling the Daily Caller News Foundation:
“The people swindled here were James Risen and Matt Rosenberg," adding "The fictional story that CIA was bilked out of $100,000 is patently false”
James Risen added more in talking with CBS News.
"First, the CIA and the NSA were trying to recover stolen NSA documents that allow people to do very sophisticated hacks, and they were worried that those documents would allow for really horrible hacks of American systems. So that was their main focus, was to try to buy back documents from the Russians on that. And in this process of conducting a secret channel with the Russians, some of the Russians began to offer documents related to Trump and to the 2016 campaign. And the Americans were very ambivalent about whether they wanted to get these documents, because they know how explosive this whole issue is."
"So there was a lot of back and forth between the Russians and the Americans about whether the Americans would even accept the documents about Trump," said Risen. "And so finally it appears that they accepted some, but their primary goal all along for the CIA and the NSA was to get these documents back from a group called Shadow Brokers."
Politics in the U.S. now read like a good spy novel.
Stayed tuned for more about this story. We have not heard the last of this.
Non-adapted content of this Zerohedge.com article:
Who knows what to believe these days? The solution is for the government to release all the relevant information to the public, including the FISA applications that allowed the government to put Carter Page under surveillance and all the related supporting documentation. Those records belong to the public and should be disclosed. Just because the information those materials contain may be embarrassing to people in government is no reason to justify them being kept confidential.
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Whilst I believe that there was a sex tape of Trump I wonder why the CIA would want to buy it for leverage all they had to do was wait an hour and he would have said or done something else that would not have cost they a penny. It seems as most of the news reported is either false, padded or embellished upon - the real news is being swamped by this kinda stuff and in the mean time the CIA and NSA are up to no good in the back ground and being ignored to get away with it - eyes in the back of your head for stories like this, it's what's behind you that is more interesting.
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Sex tapes aren't for public release, unless the 'star' refuses to play ball.
They're for blackmail.
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NYT is printing fake stories. And it might be someone in the CIA who was involved in trying to buy dirt from the Russians, trying to cover their butt, and incriminating themselves if it's true, in their attempt to cover it up. Of course, lying to the press or citizens is legal, but lying to the public is a good reason to fire someone.
After all, why would the NSA and CIA think Russia had some dirt on Trump, when the CIA, NSA and FBI didn't? Maybe because Obama knew Putin had dirt on him and Hillary and was desperate to get some dirt on Trump to help make sure Hillary was elected and others didn't find out.
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There is a lot of dirty secrets hidden in the US government. Such secrets obviously can never spill since the government has the financial power to silence them. The transactions and wiring of money obviously can't be hidden for a long time, and it's a matter of time before Trump and the CIA get pinned for these wrongful unprofessional acts.
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The shadow brokers did some of their releases here on Steem. @theshadowbrokers
Guess they have the CIA/NSA squirming a little. Their releases are costly but filled with gold
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Even if it it's true, it will never be verified. Unless Trump goes down (Like the Weinstein scandal) then everyone will get in line to testify against him. As far as he has a good grip on power - he is fine. That's how it works nowadays, noone wants to be on the wrong side of the power war.
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The recent news about FBI and false accusation that russia helped Trump win the elections are raising a lot of questions and even worse who can the US people trust, because right now everything looks a mess.
Trump, as always, is in the center of the discussion, otherwise this wouldn´t be the most polemical president of the USA ever.
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Of course they would. This looks horrible for the CIA
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Think of it in terms of business lines of credit. Manufacturers (remember those?) get orders. They arrange in advance lines of credit with banks, through which they borrow money to buy raw materials to manufacture the product. After they sell the product they repay the line of credit loan.
If the bank thinks the manufacturer is in trouble and might not repay a loan they cut off the line of credit. The manufacturer won't have money to buy raw materials and won't be able to fulfill the order. If this happens most companies go out of business almost overnight.
Interbank lending is like lines of credit banks have with each other. Now does it make sense? If a bank doesn't have money on hand to fulfill its obligations it is out of business like yesterday. Look up counterparty risk
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Did you mean to post that here?
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Interesante son investigaciones que pueden polemizar o no a personajes con mucho poder
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good post thanks @zer0hedge
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Any statement from anyone in the “intelligence community” should be taken with the same level of skepticism one would have from a used car salesman. Zero credibility.
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now the CIA and the NSA were trying to recover stolen NSA documents that allow people to do very sophisticated hacks,! will that document will be accepted by amirican people or not! if they recover it so it will great acheivement! hope they recover !
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Very good post and very inspiring.
Always success @zer0hedge 👍👍
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@steemcleaners
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