{"id":78894,"date":"2017-07-26T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T00:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78894"},"modified":"2017-07-26T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T00:13:52","slug":"intelligence-community-wont-stop-fake-russian-collusion-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78894","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Community Won&#8217;t Stop Fake &#8220;Russian Collusion&#8221; Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Michael Hayden: Trump Jr. Meeting With Lawyer Sounds Like Russian Intel O<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78895\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-4-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/GetFile-4-1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Solange Reyner<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Former National Security Director Michael Hayden on Tuesday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/ryan-lizza\/how-jared-kushner-helped-the-russians-get-inside-access-to-the-trump-campaign\"><strong>told the New Yorker<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0every case officer he&#8217;s talked to thinks Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer was a Russian intel operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My god, this is just such traditional tradecraft,&#8221; Hayden said.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Rolf Mowatt-Larsen first floated the idea in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/trump-jrs-russia-meeting-sure-sounds-like-a-russian-intelligence-operation\/2017\/07\/14\/5f7f3dfe-6762-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html?utm_term=.b8adf990ff5b\"><strong>a recent Washington Post article,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0where he stated the meeting, attended by Trump Jr., White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and President Donald Trump&#8217;s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, &#8220;is in line with what intelligence analysts would expect an overture in a Russian influence operation to look like,&#8221; and that it may have been the &#8220;green light Russia was looking for to launch a more aggressive phase of intervention in the U.S. election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hayden told the New Yorker the fact the attendees didn&#8217;t report the meeting to the FBI showed their willingness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end, they have established that these guys are willing,&#8221; Hayden said. &#8220;How do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kushner on Monday said he didn&#8217;t recall the emails setting up the meeting, and that it ended up being uneventful, anyways.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/michael-hayden-trump-jr-meeting-russian\/2017\/07\/25\/id\/803769\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/michael-hayden-trump-jr-meeting-russian\/2017\/07\/25\/id\/803769\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hayden: Trump Jr. Meeting With Lawyer Sounds Like Russian Intel O<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}