The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians
This is an amazing article, from June 2017. Remember Peter Smith, the old guy who committed suicide (or so they said)? That's who tried to recruit this guy. An amazing read that to my mind most surely shows conspiracy if not treason in the Trump campaign. Warning: You really have to read the whole thing to fully appreciate it, I think.
I referred to it from this October 17 article:
Mueller has interviewed the cybersecurity expert who said he was 'recruited to collude with the Russians'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-has-interviewed-the-cybersecurity-expert-who-said-he-was-recruited-to-collude-with-the-russians/ar-AAtEyV7
I read the
Wall Street Journals article yesterday on attempts by a GOP operative to recover missing Hillary Clinton emails with more than usual interest. I was involved in the events that reporter Shane Harris described, and I was an unnamed source for the initial story. Whats more, I was named in, and provided the documents to Harris that formed the basis of, this evenings follow-up story, which reported that A longtime Republican activist who led an operation hoping to obtain Hillary Clinton emails from hackers listed senior members of the Trump campaign, including some who now serve as top aides in the White House, in a recruitment document for his effort:
Officials identified in the document include Steve Bannon, now chief strategist for President Donald Trump; Kellyanne Conway, former campaign manager and now White House counselor; Sam Clovis, a policy adviser to the Trump campaign and now a senior adviser at the Agriculture Department; and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who was a campaign adviser and briefly was national security adviser in the Trump administration.
Im writing this piece in the spirit of Benjamin Wittess account of his interactions with James Comey immediately following the New York Times story for which he acted as a source. The goal is to provide a fuller accounting of experiences which were thoroughly bizarre and which I did not fully understand until I read the Journals account of the episode yesterday. Indeed, I still do not fully understand the events I am going to describe, both what they reflected then or what they mean in retrospect. But I can lay out what happened, facts from which readers and investigators can draw their own conclusions.