“In late summer, the professor met with Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis for coffee in Northern Virginia, offering to provide foreign-policy expertise to the Trump effort. The Post revealed that the informant had also approached Trump campaign adviser Sam Clovis, offering help to the campaign:
The leakers confirmed to the Times and the Post that the informant had also reached out to Papadopoulos in the ensuing months after he reached out to Page. Some have speculated that former CIA Director John Brennan had launched a spy operation on the Trump campaign as early as April 2016, but it is not clear what might have prompted him. The timeline of events indicate that the current and former officials lied about when their investigation of the Trump campaign started, and why. And, at some point in 2016, he began working as a secret informant for the FBI as it investigated Russia’s interference in the campaign, according to people familiar with his activities.” “But the professor was more than an academic interested in American politics - he was a longtime U.S. “The professor took the opportunity to strike up a conversation with Carter Page, whom Trump had named a few months earlier as a foreign policy adviser. “In mid-July 2016, a retired American professor approached an adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign at a symposium about the White House race held at a British university. That timeline - of Page being approached by the informant before the Australian tip off - was confirmed to the Post, which wrote: Page was invited to the symposium in June 2016 by an unnamed doctoral student at Cambridge who knew Halper, according to a source. presidential election in London on July 11-12, 2016. The informant first approached Carter Page at a Cambridge symposium on the U.S. However - the problem with that account is that the FBI informant had approached Trump campaign adviser Carter Page before that email release on July 22, 2016, and before the Australians came forward with the information, supposedly after that. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.”
“…when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Officials sold this version of events last year to the Times, which wrote on December 31, 2017, in a piece titled “How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt”: The accounts also indicate the FBI lied about when they first began surveilling the Trump campaign, or might have done so, without any particular intelligence.įBI officials have said they began investigating the Trump administration on July 31, 2016, after stolen Democratic National Committee emails were released on July 22, 2016, prompting Australian officials to come forward with information they received from Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos months earlier. The Times and Post are the first outlets claiming to have confirmed his identity, and to describe him in such detail as to match the description of Halper.
fixture who worked for three Republican administrations and has links to U.S. The details, however, match a person described in the Daily Caller as Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor and longtime Washington, D.C. Current and former officials - apparently so fearful that an FBI informant’s identity and role would be outed by congressional Republicans - confirmed both to the New York Times and the Washington Post in an attempt to offer their own narratives first.īoth outlets offered details that readily identify the informant - but do not name him, citing concerns for his safety and warnings from U.S.
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