CNN: Some Comms In Explosive Dossier Corroborated By U.S. Intel Officials

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking to troops at the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.,Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Certain communications detailed in an explosive 35-page dossier related to President Donald Trump have been corroborated by multiple unnamed sources within the U.S. intelligence community, CNN reported Friday.

CNN reported the news after speaking to “multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials” about intercepted communications between foreign nationals, within and outside of the Russian government:

None of the newly learned information relates to the salacious allegations in the dossier. Rather it relates to conversations between foreign nationals. The dossier details about a dozen conversations between senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals. Sources would not confirm which specific conversations were intercepted or the content of those discussions due to the classified nature of US intelligence collection programs.

But the intercepts do confirm that some of the conversations described in the dossier took place between the same individuals on the same days and from the same locations as detailed in the dossier, according to the officials. CNN has not confirmed whether any content relates to then-candidate Trump.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer dismissed CNN’s reporting as “fake news.”

Read the full report here.

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  1. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    Uh oh, Dear Leader. Looks like it’s not all that fake.

    Dog knows what the media and the intel folks (from the US and other countries) will find as they keep digging.

  2. It’s going to be fun when the rest of the dossier gets confirmed. Aren’t we all eager to see how Sean Spicer or Kellyanne Conway defend the use of prostitutes and…ahem…water activities?

  3. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    “White House press secretary Sean Spicer dismissed CNN’s reporting as “fake news.””

    Well, that’s just because Sean Spicer is fake human.

  4. This claim by KAC about an unrelated matter is stuck in my head:
    “You have to listen to what the president-elect has said about that. Why don’t you believe him? Why is everything taken at face value?” [Kellyanne Conway] asked anchor Chris Cuomo. “You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart? You always want to go by what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart.”

    Oh if we could peek inside DJT’s heart…

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