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Jefferson saw clearly "the true character of the English government in practice, however different it’s theory" founders.archives.gov/documents/Jeff…
quote: "Did the dossier instigate not only FISA surveillance but human spying against the Trump campaign?"
quote: "Sounds like the FBI, with support from [Brennan], had some cooperative intelligence venture with British authorities that enabled the Bureau to monitor Trump-campaign figures...
.. That is significant because Papadopoulos has acknowledged meeting in Britain with people who claimed Kremlin ties and who told him Russia had thousands of Clinton’s emails ..
.. Did the FBI’s British operation involve using a spy to interact with Trump-campaign figures, such as Papadopoulos, on British soil? Brennan didn’t say."
quote: "McCabe “said on more than one occasion that the FBI had worked hard to verify the dossier, telling lawmakers that the FBI had at one point sent investigators to London as part of that effort”...
.. Did the FBI’s work to verify the dossier in London involve a human source? Did it involve other human sources in other places?
thread. "I don't want to believe that the FBI or [Brennan] placed or used an American informant inside a presidential campaign..."
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fine print. 
"The informant, an American academic who teaches in Britain..." nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/…
quote: "Details about the informant’s relationship with the F.B.I. remain scant. It is not clear how long the relationship existed and whether the F.B.I. paid the source or assigned the person to other cases."
quote: "The informant also had contacts with Mr. Flynn.."
New York Times just outed Halper.
recall:
fair question.
recall:
(May 22, 2018) John Brennan’s Plot to Infiltrate the Trump Campaign spectator.org/john-brennans-…
quote: "As Trump won primary after primary in 2016, a rattled John Brennan started claiming to colleagues at the CIA that Estonia’s intelligence agency had alerted him to an intercepted phone call suggesting Putin was pouring money into the Trump campaign...
.. The tip was bogus, but Brennan bit on it with opportunistic relish."
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quote: "The bogus tip from Estonia led the group into its first cock-up: sending FBI agents to sniff around the computer server connected to Trump Tower."
quote: "Brennan’s Langley group had access to Halper’s file and sized him up as the perfect embed: a Republican-oriented foreign policy scholar who could plausibly interact with Trump officials while serving as a nexus between the CIA & Brennan’s friends in British intelligence"
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quote: "Halper had come up empty, so Brennan’s group at Langley went with Downer’s tale, as feeble as it was. But it at least had the advantage of coming from a “diplomat.”
