Page 2 - Counterintelligence Issue News Today

Happened in early 2016, first reported in slate.com in october of 2016, but cnn reported in march 2017 that the fbi still had the matter under investigation. federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the trump organization and russian bank. investigation is open, in the hands of the counterintelligence team, same team looking into russian interference in the 2016 election. if that report is accurate, fbi looked into t...

Theres nothing wrong, as far as im concerned, with mike pompeo looking into this in the counterintelligence world. he might find his first judgments is exactly right. maybe its only 75%. i dont know. but the president can certainly ask a senior person to look into a counterintelligence issue. >> his acceptance has been tepid. >> when he said, by the way, none of it had any effect on the election, which is not what they concluded. they said theyre not going to touch that. they then pulled it back...

Members of the intelligence community said the russians were certainly tempting to skew the election. when you have all that together, you cant simply say, yeah, were probably good here. youve got to go a little further and do some sort of independent investigation as to what was happening. if its one thing the russian intelligence services were really good at, its clandestinity. you have to look hard at it. there is a counterintelligence issue. >> mike, one of the reasons it may need to be inde...

The justice department and the fbi. >> on any given scenario when you have the daily intelligence briefings and say that the justice department is the one that ordered the fisa warrant, the president wouldnt know, and that he wouldnt be told or briefed that this could be a possibility? >> look, in a normal course, the president of the united states, the senior officials and the white house are not involved in any investigative activity including the be on take of a fisa warrant. it is conceivabl...

>> they may understand them a little too well. they were not happy. >> well maybe they have a right to be scared. >> i am glad. >> thanks for helping that. >> we can talk more about this later. >> maybe drinks. >> sounds excellent. >> petraeus. mike, you said this is confusing to some people. petraeus was caught with his hand in the cookie jar. he admitted he did something wrong and he resigned. actual question, i know the military can prosecute adultery if it chooses to. does the cia -- what is...

Only the cats can understand? >> they may understand them a little too well. they were not happy. >> well maybe they have a right to be scared. >> i am glad. >> thanks for helping that. >> we can talk more about this later. >> maybe drinks. >> sounds excellent. >> petraeus. mike, you said this is confusing to some people. petraeus was caught with his hand in the cookie jar. he admitted he did something wrong and he resigned. actual question, i know the military can prosecute adultery if it choos...

>> well, because washington a culture where you cover your backside. and the idea that, yes, of course, the bureau started out by looking at a harassment issue, and they would be doing that investigation. but very quickly because of the way these investigations take place and the forensic review of e-mails, they would have identified the petraeus connection. now, periodly, that investigation has changed and has taken on a completely different focus and criticality here. because youre talking abo...