Friday, May 12, 2017

Why would President Trump fire Comey?



From the American Thinker Blog May 12, 2017


Russian hacker claims FBI offered him citizenship and a new life if he would confess to hacking Podesta emails on behalf of Putin and Trump


 According to a report in Newsweek by Tom O’Connor, a Russian hacker who had been detained in Prague at the request of US authorities, was visited multiple times by FBI agents, who pressed him to confess to hacking the Podesta emails at the behest of Putin, and to help Trump. They allegedly (and unsuccessfully) offered generous inducements, to say the least.




Yevgeniy Nikulin, 29, has found himself in the middle of an international dispute between Washington and Moscow, at the very center of which lies U.S. allegations that Russia sponsored a series of hacks targeting Democratic Party candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in favor of Republican candidate and current President Donald Trump. On October 5, 2016, days before U.S. intelligence publicly accused Russia of endorsing an infiltration of Democratic Party officials' emails, Nikulin was arrested in Prague at the request of the U.S. on separate hacking charges. Now, Nikulin claims U.S. authorities tried to pin the email scandal on him.
Nikulin was detained in the Czech Republic for allegedly hacking the servers of major sites LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring between 2012 and 2013. While awaiting trial, he claims in an undated letter reportedly given to U.S. Russian-language news site Nastoyashchoe Vremya by Nikulin's lawyer, Martin Sadilek, that the FBI visited him at least a couple of times, offering to drop the charges and grant him U.S. citizenship as well as cash and an apartment in the U.S. if the Russian national confessed to participating in the 2016 hacks of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta's emails in July. (snip)
Nikulin said he refused the deal, but U.S. officials threatened to return. He claims the visits occurred in mid-November 2016 and on February 7 of this year. Czech television has reported at least one FBI visit earlier this year, according to The Guardian, which cited an FBI spokesperson as saying the agency was "aware of the situation," but declining further comment. The FBI is seeking to extradite Nikulin to face trial in the U.S., something he and his lawyers are trying to fight.
So if we are to believe this account, the FBI under James Comey was willing to offer the Whole Package – citizenship and a new life – in order to be able to pin the leak of Podesta’s emails on a Russian in service to the elusive “collusion” between Trump and the Russkies.  Such a generous offer, the sort of thing offered to high level enemy defectors, must have crossed Comey’s desk, if it didn’t originate there.  

(So the FBI and James Comey tried to bribe someone to lie about President Trump and throw the election to Hillary. I hope that this gets publicized but I know it will not. It will be buried by the opposition press.)

8 comments:

edutcher said...

Sounds like the deal to trade Rudolf Abel for Gary Powers.

Frankly, Comey doesn't strike me as all that clever (none of the Ozarks do; if it weren't for a sympathetic press, all of them would be doing time at Sex Slave Prison [imagine Willie sentenced to life sharing a cell with naked Hillary{and required to have sex with her}]).

Gateway has a piece saying the new Hillary book tells us Podesta and Mook (wotta name) cooked up the Russia story in less than a day.

ndspinelli said...

Chrissake, This is NEWSWEEK! They are the MSNBC of weekly mags. WTF is happening? Maybe just an isolated case of legit reporting. This guy will be working the Arctic Circle beat soon.

Trooper York said...

I think he didn't understand what he was reporting. These liberal snowflakes think it is axiomatic that Trump colluded with Russia. He doesn't understand that anyone with an ounce of knowledge on how things work wouldn't understand that they were trying to bride this guy to destroy Trump.

ndspinelli said...

Well then he is dumber than a bag o' hammers if you're correct. The FBI understand the implications of this report.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I got the best tweet on the Comey Con going...

#WhatDifferenceDoesItMake? Was it because of a protest or was it because Trump went out for a walk one night and decided he’d go fire Comey?

My best tweet ever and it hardly gets noticed. I think it's because have forgotten.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Link to my Michael Angelo.... https://twitter.com/lemang01/status/863110929419993088

ndspinelli said...

Lem, Maybe if you put some Mr Magoo glasses in the Tweet it will jog memories via a visual.

Methadras said...

Funny to use Benedict Arnold as the backdrop for this post.