the affiliation with the woman who said her name was azra turk is one previously unreported detail. the decision to use ms. turk in the operation aimed as a presidential campaign official shows the level of alarm inside the fbi during a frantic period when they were trying to determine the scope of russia s attempts. and also gives lie to trump s spying claims. you may remember attorney general barr saying this. i think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. i m not talking about the fbi necessarily but intelligence agencies more broadly. you are not suggesting that spying occurred? i don t well i guess
surfaces. it is not just counter intel but an investigation into hacking. they are investigating this entire email hacking case that had been going on it seemed like well into the spring. this person may have to testify. you want to have an agent in there. they know the context of the questions. if you get a lead or follow up, you are not relaying through an inforntant. why would george papadopoulos say this on twitter. i agree with everything in this article except azra turk clearly was not fbi. she was cia and affiliated with turkish intel. any reason to believe or or doubt it? i have a little more confidence in the new york times story than george
policy was clearly driven by the desire to stop president trump and using any flying apparatus they had to in order to do that. lisa: exactly we have to get to the bottom of informs stephan halper and azra turk. we need to get to the bottom of information like that. does anyone actually believe anything that john brennan says? he was called out in 2014 inspector general report for the cia spying on the senate intel committee. and not only that. senator feinstein specifically. exactly. and at that time they had no problem using the word spying as well. additionally, that report also found that cia officials sent a referral, criminal referral to the justice department based off of false information as well. this was under john brennan s leadership which he ultimately apologized for but originally lied about. so why would anyone believe him? why would anyone believe him about not spying on american citizens as we have just established that they spy on the senate intel committee? t
the transcripts and tapes that you are apparently on tape saying that you never saw any trump-russia campaign collusion, you would never be a part of it, tell me where i m wrong, stop me at any point, and you would say that would be a debetrayal to your country and they heard you say that, have you heard that? just reference you to the meeting that i remember saying that, that was with stephon halper, and it s clear now he was a cia operative, with azra turk, working with the cia, feeding the information later on to the fbi. but i do remember halper pointedly asking me strange questions. i told him what you re talking about is outrageous, trump has nothing to do with the russians, i have nothing to do with the russians. never met a russian official in my life. what i told him is what you re referencing is treason and we have nothing to do with it.