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eric's avatar

How in the world do you guys find out all this stuff?! Great work.

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John Hinshaw's avatar

This man and all his "dignities" (suing accusers for denying him a Papacy he feels entitled to). Promoted no less than 4 times by Papa Francisco personally.

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John Hinshaw's avatar

This man and all his "dignities" (suing accusers for denying him a Papacy he feels entitled to). Promoted no less than 4 times by Papa Francisco personally.

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vsm's avatar

In case your readers are interested, cybersecurity lawyer Sussmann (his name has a double "n") was not merely "affiliated" with the Democratic Party when he dealt with Neustar, but was a member of Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign Committee. His allegations to the FBI about a covert connection between Trump and a Russian bank were found by the FBI to be unsubstantiated. A federal grand jury indicted him for lying to the FBI for having told the Bureau that he was not making his allegations on behalf of any client when in fact he was doing so as Neustar's and the Clinton Campaign's paid advocate or political operative -- a fact that would have had a bearing on the FBI's ability to assess the credibility of the allegations.

In light of this, your headline might have more accurately been written "Becciu's 'classified' tech company linked to CLINTON'S Russia allegations," since it wasn't Trump who was making them.

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Fr John Farley's avatar

John Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.

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vsm's avatar

Your reply is misdirected. The indictment charges what it charges, as I laid out in my post.

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Michael's avatar

Curiouser and curiouser.... There were bizarre rumors following the 2016 presidential election that the Holy See had contributed to Hillary Clinton's campaign. It's utterly bizarre if they did that, but it seems possible that this payment to Neustar was indirect aid to the Clinton campaign. Whatever this really was, it was rotten. Paying large sums of money to tech companies for "intelligence activities" is absolutely not what most folks in the pews have in mind when they contribute to Peter's Pence.

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Sue Korlan's avatar

Which is why so many of us no longer donate to that collection. I have other things to do with my money than enrich the friends and family of cardinals.

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Marc M's avatar

So, the company that allegedly spied on the Trump campaign and White House--to collect dirt on behalf of the Clinton campaign--received $2 million from Becciu? It seems public knowledge Becciu likes spying on people in order to collect dirt on them, and so a connection between the payments and the spying would seem plausible.

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Fr John Farley's avatar

John Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers,

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Marc M's avatar

I was referring to Durham's filing, not to reports. You can find the filing by googling "US v Sussmann - Durham Probe - Friday Filing (Docket 35)".

Besides, his supposed "distancing" statement: "If third parties or members of the media have overstated, understated, or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the Government’s Motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the Government’s inclusion of this information." To me that's not distancing, as the sentence started with "if", and he didn't specify what claims were understated or overstated. Rather, that's Durham arguing that his earlier filing shouldn't be thrown out because of what any 3rd party says about it. Calling it distancing is what I call New York Times spin.

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Jennifer Herrick's avatar

More to come then re the Australia / Pell timing?

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