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global1

(25,248 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:45 PM May 2018

I Haven't Heard Anyone Ask This Question - Was An Informant Imbedded In Hillary's.....

campaign as well? If Russian interference was at question - wouldn't it be logical to find out if anything was going on there?

I'm aware that there were individuals in Trump's camp that had Russian ties and therefore effort was made to find out more about them and their role.

However, it was known by the Obama Administration that Russia was interfering. Wouldn't one want to determine if the interference was going on in both campaigns?

Even donors sometimes cover themselves by making donations to both Parties. Wouldn't Russia want to have some influence in both Parties as well?

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I Haven't Heard Anyone Ask This Question - Was An Informant Imbedded In Hillary's..... (Original Post) global1 May 2018 OP
Seems unlikely as we haven't heard anything Proud Liberal Dem May 2018 #1
I Hear You - But Trump Is Saying That This Informant Was Placed In His Campaign For Political .... global1 May 2018 #9
Fight fire with fire SayItLoud May 2018 #11
#1. why would they do that? They wanted trump to win. shraby May 2018 #2
no informant was "embedded" in the Trump Campaign lapfog_1 May 2018 #3
Yup, what you said lapfog. shraby May 2018 #8
This presumes there was an informant imbedded in the Trump campaign, which there wasn't. apnu May 2018 #4
from what I hear mercuryblues May 2018 #5
MSM ? OnDoutside May 2018 #6
Doubtful tazkcmo May 2018 #7
Yes, Julian Assage is the name. SayItLoud May 2018 #10
Only if someone in the Clinton campaign spoke with a Russian operative on the phone, or met Nitram May 2018 #12
Both campaigns were warned that Russia was trying to interfere karynnj May 2018 #13
Imbed Vs. Embed Blue_Adept May 2018 #14

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,412 posts)
1. Seems unlikely as we haven't heard anything
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:49 PM
May 2018

but even if there was, it's sort of a moot point as Hillary "lost" and is not sitting in the WH right now.

global1

(25,248 posts)
9. I Hear You - But Trump Is Saying That This Informant Was Placed In His Campaign For Political ....
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:55 PM
May 2018

purposes or reasons. He claims that it was to help Hillary win. In fact - if that was the reason for the imbed - it was a complete failure - because Hillary lost and Trump won. Or did Hillary lose? She had 3 million more popular votes than Trump and this still bugs Trump. Any other person would probably just move along. But Trump is bothered by the fact that though he won - Hillary got more votes. I know he's making this an issue to muddle the Mueller investigation. But bottom line - I think it is still eating away at him that Hillary got more votes.

SayItLoud

(1,702 posts)
11. Fight fire with fire
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:57 PM
May 2018

The F'n MORON in the Oral Office keeps threatening to have Hillary investigated....so why do you think it's a moot point?

shraby

(21,946 posts)
2. #1. why would they do that? They wanted trump to win.
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:51 PM
May 2018

#2. The Dems are known for turning over stuff like that to the FBI right away. They are smart enough to know better than ignore any such shenanigans.

#3. I believe both campaigns were warned about the Russian type of interference in campaigns early in the game.

lapfog_1

(29,204 posts)
3. no informant was "embedded" in the Trump Campaign
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:51 PM
May 2018

An FBI informant was told to meet with a person from the Trump campaign who was known to be a possible Russian asset (actively recruited back in 2013)... one Carter Page.

That such a person was attached to the Trump campaign was reason to find out more about what he and other potential assets like Papadopoulos and Manafort were up to.

apnu

(8,756 posts)
4. This presumes there was an informant imbedded in the Trump campaign, which there wasn't.
Wed May 23, 2018, 12:53 PM
May 2018

What happened was the FBI asked three (albeit it key) people some questions in 2016. There was no spy, or other mole or informant. All that is a lie made up by Fox News and shouted by Tiny Hands and his Twitter addiction.

Nitram

(22,801 posts)
12. Only if someone in the Clinton campaign spoke with a Russian operative on the phone, or met
Wed May 23, 2018, 01:06 PM
May 2018

with one. The first step the FBI would take would be to monitor Russian phone calls. Getting permission to monitor an American political campaign's phone calls is much more difficult than getting permission to monitor that of a Russian national. Once they overheard a Russian phone call to someone in a campaign they might get evidence that could lead to surveillance of the campaign. An informant wouldn't be assigned to a campaign unless there was evidence of contacts with Russians.

karynnj

(59,503 posts)
13. Both campaigns were warned that Russia was trying to interfere
Wed May 23, 2018, 02:02 PM
May 2018

What either campaign should have done if any questionable person - foreign or not - approached them would have been to report the incident to the FBI, which would then investigate the questionable person. We know now that a series of pretty questionable and identably foreign people approached the Trump campaign -- where they were welcomed by high level Trump campaigners. This led to the FBI investigating what they were doing.

No one has spoken of any attempts to infiltrate the Clinton campaign. I was going to note that most of her high level campaign officials had long histories of public service and campaign experience. However, that did not stop Manaford! There is NO WAY that had the Clinton campaign actually pulled in Russians (or any other nation's spies) there would not already have been indictments.

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
14. Imbed Vs. Embed
Wed May 23, 2018, 02:06 PM
May 2018
For anyone looking for quick information, let’s state this right from the start: there is no difference between imbed and embed. They are just different spellings of the same word; there’s no difference in their meaning, and they are both completely correct to use. However, embed is a far more common spelling today, which is a fact that created the opinion that you can write “embedded” but you can’t write “imbedded.” You can write both, of course, or you can choose to use the embed spelling and its derivatives if you’re not too inclined to swim against the current.



https://www.grammarly.com/blog/imbed-embed/
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