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Yorkie Mom's JournalStone and Manafort. Manafort and Stone.
You know who brought Manafort onto team Trump? ROGER STONE.
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/844526492960899072
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/844529349365764096
Its hard to overstate just how close Trump and Stone have been over the years. Their professional and personal relationship goes back more than three decades. Trump without Stone is akin to George W. Bush without Karl Rove or Barack Obama without David Axelrod. Though Trump has derided Stone to reporters in the past Roger is a stone-cold loser, he told The New Yorker in 2008, he always tries taking credit for things he never did the two men have always made up after such occasional spats, and a permanent split would be stunning.
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In 1988, Stone wanted Trump to run for president and arranged for him to give a speech at the Portsmouth, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, which garnered enormous media coverage. Stone says some of his friends in the state organized a short-lived Draft Trump movement, but within a few weeks, Trump had determined he would forgo a run to focus on his business career.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422353/donald-trumps-departed-top-adviser-speaks-out-jim-geraghty
A sign of things to come - Paul Manafort just hired a crisis communications firm.
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/844342119464620032https://twitter.com/20committee/status/844321519903936513
FBI has assigned 100+ agents to investigate Russian interference & potential TrumpRussia collusion
According to @KenDilanianNBC, the FBI has assigned 100+ agents to investigate Russian interference & potential #TrumpRussia collusion.
Ken Dilanian is an Intelligence and national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/844317304825561088
Let that sink in. 100+ agents investigating...
Dead men don't talk (thrown from 4th floor of apartment bldg).
Lawyer for Sergei Magnitsky's family Nikolai Gorokhov has been "thrown from the 4th floor of his apartment building" in Moscow.
https://twitter.com/BBCDanielS/status/844279337620832257
Edited to say: They guy is still alive. It seems he is currently in critical condition w/severe head injuries.
Alfa Bank threatens researcher with CFAA suit over DNS request data tied to Trump
In a document obtained by CyberScoop, Alfa Bank notified Indiana University computer researcher L. Jean Camp that its pursuing all available options after Camps research suggested the bank engaged in some form of communication with the Trump Organization. Washington-based law firm Kirkland & Ellis sent the letter on the banks behalf on March 17.
Among the options listed is litigation under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Acts civil action provision, which allows companies to sue for damages in the event of unauthorized computer access. Foreign entities can bring cases to U.S. federal courts under a CFAA provision that allows private causes of action.
Camps research has pointed to Alfa Banks servers making an unusually high amount of DNS lookups to Trump Organization servers, particularly during a period of time in the summer of 2016. The possible connection was first revealed in October by Slate, but the bank claimed the most likely explanation was spam marketing due to bank executives use of Trump hotels.
More: https://www.cyberscoop.com/alfa-bank-l-jean-camp-donald-trump-cfaa-suit-dns-data/
Reminder to TeamTrump: First folks who talk generally get the best deal.
I wish I could claim this one as my own.
In light of #ComeyHearing, I remind TeamTrump that the first couple folks who talk generally get the best deal, maybe even tennis prison.
https://twitter.com/20committee/status/843859754313224197
Comey just hinted, by omission, that IC+FBI have classified information about Roger Stone's collusio
Comey just hinted, by omission, that IC+FBI have classified information about Roger Stone's collusion with Wikileaks & Moscow.
Whoopsie...
https://twitter.com/20committee/status/843842819152330752
Washington Post: FBI Director Comey confirms the bureau investigating Russian interference
By Ellen Nakashima and Karoun Demirjian March 20 at 10:50 AM
FBI Director James B. Comey acknowledged on Monday the existence of a counterintelligence investigation into the Russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, and said that probe extends to the nature of any links between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government.
Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey said the investigation is also exploring whether there was any coordination between the campaign and the Kremlin, and whether any crimes were committed.
The acknowledgment was an unusual move, given that the FBIs practice is not to confirm the existence of ongoing investigations. But in unusual circumstances, where it is in the public interest, Comey said, it may be appropriate to do so.
Comey said he had been authorized by the Justice Department to confirm the wide-ranging probes existence.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-to-testify-on-russian-interference-in-the-presidential-election/2017/03/20/cdea86ca-0ce2-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.948f29dd1c25
There is also a video at the link.
Video: FBI Director Comey confirms the FBI investigating any possible links between the Trump camp
https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/843833137859887106NYTimes: Comey Confirms F.B.I. Investigation of Russian Election Interference, Links to Trump Campai
■ James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, confirmed an F.B.I. investigation into Russias meddling in the election.
■ The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence convened on Monday for the first public hearing on Russias efforts to influence the election.
■ The hearings featured witnesses: the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/us/politics/intelligence-committee-russia-donald-trump.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
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