Why It’s Ridiculous To Say FBI Spying Meant To Protect The Trump Campaign The Federalist, May 25, 2018, Jason Beale
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This Only Makes Sense If the Target Was TrumpThe only people who would have known that Halper delivered warnings to those campaign officials would be the FBI leadership, Halper, and the three who were warned. If those private conversations made their way into the press, it wouldn’t be difficult to determine where that information came from, and to take action against the leaker(s). If the actual goal was to identify and interdict Russian attempts to coopt members of the Trump campaign staff, there was no good reason, operationally, to do it the way they did. ...
It’s simple: if the Russians were the target, inform and inoculate the campaign member. If a campaign member was the target, keep him in the dark and try to get him to unwittingly implicate himself. The fact that intelligence professionals with either a personal or ideological stake in this refuse to acknowledge the distinction between the two options is disturbing, and instructive. Playing dumb is generally not an indicator of confidence in one’s assertion.
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