Thread by @whitforreal

The Obama Admin was spying on the Trump Campaign as early as April 2016.

"Last April, the CIA director was shown intelligence that worried him. It was - allegedly - a tape recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into the US presidential campaign."

'It was passed to the US by an intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States. The CIA cannot act domestically against American citizens so a joint counter-intelligence task force was created. '

Brennan CIA Dir. 3-8-13 – 1-20-17
Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

"The task force included six agencies or departments of government. Dealing with the domestic, US, side of the inquiry, were the FBI, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Justice. "

"For the foreign and intelligence aspects of the investigation, there were another three agencies: the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency, responsible for electronic spying. "

May 2016
"About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.

"That was months before the theft of a trove of emails from the Democratic National Committee by Russian-sponsored hackers became public."
nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/…

"The March 2016 meeting was followed by a breakfast the next month at a London hotel during which Mr. Mifsud revealed to Mr. Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.”

WASHINGTON — At midday on March 24, 2016, an improbable group gathered in a London cafe to discuss setting up a meeting between Donald J. Trump, then a candidate, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/…

But wait, there's more. Here, we have a report that the red flag was raised in 2015
"GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said."

"This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added. "
theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/a…

"Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said. "

"The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence – known as sigint – included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the “Five Eyes” spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said."

Nellie Ohr, who may or may not be a CIA asset, testified that she approached Glenn Simpson about researching Trump ties to Russia in September 2015.

Nellie Ohr states that she has previously worked as a subcontractor to firms engaging in contract for US intel agencies. pg 19
dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcoll…

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