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As part of intelligence operations being conducted against the United States for the last seven months, at least one Western European ally intercepted a series of communications before the inauguration between advisers associated with President Donald Trump and Russian government officials, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
Our allies are willing to investigate. Our own Congress? Not so much.
The foreign agency is also gathering electronic and human source information on Trump’s overseas business partners, at least some of whom the intelligence services now consider to be agents of their respective governments. These operations are being conducted out of concerns that Russia is seeking to manipulate its relationships with Trump administration officials as part of a long-term plan to destabilize the NATO alliance.
Our President has business partners who are Russian agents seeking to destabilize NATO. But hey, what about the Clinton Foundation donors?
These operations reflect a serious breakdown in the longstanding faith in the direction of American policy by some of the country’s most important allies. Worse, the United States is now in a situation that may be unprecedented—where European governments know more about what is going on in the Executive Branch than any elected American official. To date, the Republican-controlled Congress has declined to conduct hearings to investigate the links between Trump’s overseas business partners and foreign governments, or the activities between Russia and officials in the Trump campaign and administration—the very areas being examined by the intelligence services of at least two American allies.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan feel just fine.
There’s quite a bit more in the article; at least one of the three Baltic states is collecting intelligence on Trump and Tillerson because they view these men as possible threats to their continued sovereignty. And Tillerson has a longtime personal friendship with Igor Sechin, Putin’s #2 (to the extent he permits one to exist) and former head of the FSB (i.e., the renamed KGB).
Even if Trump can somehow cow our media, the truth is likely to be revealed. At which point the Republicans who are presently aiding and abetting Trump in his coverup may, finally, pay a price. One can only hope.