C.INTEL-XFBI: MUELLER likely has "classified" COMM intercepts from TRUMP 'with' Russi
I heard this in real time last night and my ears work fine. RAW STORY is simply the transcriber so save your keystrokes. Figluzzi was back on with a different anchor this morning, and he repeated it. NO he doesn't mean TRUMP is 'working with Russia' for US!
“... even though the article is citing the public behavior of the president, as you just noted, in order to get this to pass muster, in order to get this through FBI headquarters, through teams of lawyers,
across the street to the Department of Justice, to be the title name of an investigation, I am virtually certain
that more evidence than just the public behavior of the president is involved
in this and I think that evidence is likely classified evidence,” he explained.
Mueller likely has ‘classified’ communication intercepts showing Trump working with Russia: Ex-FBI counterintel chief
Composite image of Donald Trump during CNN debate (Photo: Screen capture
) and special counsel Robert Mueller in 2012 (U.S. Embassy Tallinn)
The former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggested that special counsel Robert Mueller likely has “classified” evidence about President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia.
Frank Figliuzzi, a national security contributor for NBC News, joined MSNBC’s “AM Joy” on Saturday. Host Joy Reid noted the “extraordinary” reporting from The New York Times that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump in 2017.
“I think this is particularly sobering, even for career counterintelligence professionals who always in the back of their minds think there is an outside possibility someone could rise to high office who might be playing for another team,” Figliuzzi explained.
“To see this in writing, to hear this report — if it’s accurate to say the bureau actually opened a case on Donald J. Trump — is really like hitting the American people in the gut,” he continued.
Figluizzi predicted the FBI had additional evidence....
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