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turbinetree

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Tue Jul 30, 2019, 01:23 PM Jul 2019

Russian link between Trump and Brexit feared by FBI's McCabe and UK spy chief: report

Published 4 hours ago
on July 30, 2019

By Travis Getty

The former FBI deputy director and his counterpart at the U.K.’s MI5 intelligence agency privately shared concerns about the possible connections between the Brexit vote and Russia’s efforts to promote Donald Trump’s campaign.

Andrew McCabe, then the second-ranking FBI official, and Jeremy Fleming, the second-ranking British intelligence agency official at the time, exchanged text messages revealing their mutual surprise at the result of the EU referendum that U.S. officials saw as a “wake-up call,” reported The Guardian.

A person familiar with the matter told the newspaper that American officials were wary of Russian interference in western elections, but some within the FBI saw the Brexit vote as confirmation that those efforts had been successful.

McCabe and Fleming frequently exchanged text messages starting in June 2016, shortly before the FBI opened its investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia, but the conversations were cryptic and did not contain specific or sensitive materials, according to The Guardian.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/russian-link-between-trump-and-brexit-feared-by-fbis-mccabe-and-uk-spy-chief-report/

So now the UK is going to get the full ratfucking by Boris Johnson...................

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Russian link between Trump and Brexit feared by FBI's McCabe and UK spy chief: report (Original Post) turbinetree Jul 2019 OP
You'd think "Boris" would have been the tip-off C_U_L8R Jul 2019 #1
Sounds like collusion to me. democratisphere Jul 2019 #2
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