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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:04 PM Nov 2017

Newsweek : PAPADOPOULOS IS THE BIG ONE," NOT MANAFORT, EX CIA DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAYDEN SAYS

http://www.newsweek.com/michael-hayden-donald-trump-russia-vladamir-putin-paul-manafort-george-702085?amp=1

White House scandals have a way of turning nobodies into unfortunate somebodies. So it was 45 years ago in October with Donald Segretti, whom The Washington Post exposed as a major cog in a White House dirty tricks program to destroy Maine Senator Ed Muskie, the leading Democratic candidate for president. Segretti’s reported role added startling new context to what became known as the Watergate scandal. It showed that the June 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee was part of a much larger campaign of surveillance and sabotage against targets on President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list”—from reporters to liberal think tanks to dissident government officials like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

Now comes George Papadopoulos, another nobody whose name could soon be memorialized on a Trivial Pursuit card for political scandals. The 30-year-old was yet another enabler in the Kremlin’s multipronged campaign to destroy Hillary Clinton, according to the grand jury indictment unsealed by special counsel Robert Mueller on October 30. Donald Trump once called Papadopoulos, his former foreign policy adviser, “an excellent guy,” but now dismisses him as “a low-level volunteer” and a “liar.”


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The little guy they thought nothing of will probably be the one who sinks them
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Newsweek : PAPADOPOULOS IS THE BIG ONE," NOT MANAFORT, EX CIA DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAYDEN SAYS (Original Post) sunonmars Nov 2017 OP
I would love to know what Mueller learned from him BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #1
Yes at a time and in a manner you least expect it. gordianot Nov 2017 #3
One imagines that the various co-conspirators guillaumeb Nov 2017 #4
I have a feeling that a lot of staffers are getting very drunk BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #5
Its like corporate espionage, nobody notices the cleaner working around the office sunonmars Nov 2017 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
1. I would love to know what Mueller learned from him
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:07 PM
Nov 2017

via the wire he wore for three months. Will we ever find out?

gordianot

(15,243 posts)
3. Yes at a time and in a manner you least expect it.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:17 PM
Nov 2017

At some point if recordings exist, parties will be allowed to listen with an offer to do the right thing. Those meeting should be epic.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. One imagines that the various co-conspirators
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:20 PM
Nov 2017

in the Trump camp would also like to know what Mueller learned.

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
5. I have a feeling that a lot of staffers are getting very drunk
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:49 PM
Nov 2017

and putting their personal affairs in order this weekend. They should be buying a lot of Jack Daniel's and Xanax in bulk...they are going to need it.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
2. Its like corporate espionage, nobody notices the cleaner working around the office
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:11 PM
Nov 2017

If I ever want to know whats going on in my office, I ask the cleaner, she knows everything.

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