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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 06:26 PM Jan 2019

article from John Schindler, very interesting if true

Exclusive: Mueller Is Holding Top Secret Intelligence That Will Sink the Trump Presidency

https://observer.com/2019/01/robert-mueller-top-secret-intelligence-will-sink-trump-presidency/


What really ought to worry the president and his inner circle is what Mueller knows about the election and has yet to reveal. The Special Counsel doesn’t have to disclose to suspects how it knows certain things, and it’s apparent that Mueller and his investigators asked Manafort about his dealings with Kilimnik, which he lied about—and the ostrich jacket connoisseur is now trying to come clean before he gets a de facto life sentence in prison.

That Mueller knew about Manafort’s 2016 dealings with Kilimnik is no surprise, given that the two men communicated frequently for many years, and the Special Counsel seized all of those communications from Manafort. But how did Mueller know about their secret Madrid meeting in early 2017, despite Manafort’s denials?

The answer lies in a highly secretive intelligence program run by the National Security Agency (NSA). It’s called travel tracking and its existence, like so many NSA top-secret operations, was revealed by Edward Snowden, the disgruntled agency IT contractor who fled to Moscow in June 2013 with over a million classified documents from the NSA and other U.S. spy agencies.

Travel tracking means that the NSA and its Five Eyes Anglosphere intelligence partners know who’s going where by air, and when, anywhere. They can even crack into WiFi and mobile phones in flight, according to top secret-plus documents stolen and leaked by Snowden. Unless you’re traveling under alias documents of the kind issued by higher-end spy services, the NSA and its close friends know where you’re headed.


Schindler tends to be right-wing but seems(?) to have legit national security knowledge and connections ? If I am wrong with this impression, please correct me, thanks.
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article from John Schindler, very interesting if true (Original Post) steve2470 Jan 2019 OP
I have assumed this for awhile - and its why I think Pence will also be sunk Pachamama Jan 2019 #1
Thanks goes to Five Eyes for having our backs as well as other Nevermypresident Jan 2019 #2

Nevermypresident

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2. Thanks goes to Five Eyes for having our backs as well as other
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 07:02 PM
Jan 2019

country's intelligence services that have provided intercepts, etc. to us.

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