Trump-Putin Collude and Conspire: Who, What, When, Where, and Why

Let’s Play “Collusion”

Five “W” – One “H”

(Easy Yet Complex by Careful Design™)

Major Update (April 14, 2017) – various sources and linked in this update: 

The official investigation into relations between Trump and Russia now has “specific, concrete, and corroborative evidence of collusion” that has been reported. The evidence proves discussions took place “between people in the Trump campaign and agents of Russian influence relating to the use of hacked material (DNC and John Podesta),” a source told The Guardian.

The developments come as it has emerged that Britain’s spy agencies were among the first to alert their American counterparts to contact between members of Mr. Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives.

British and other European intelligence agencies first intercepted suspicious “interactions” between people associated with the US President and Russian officials in 2015 as part of routine surveillance of Russia, intelligence sources have confirmed to a number of different publications. Spy agencies, including GCHQ, were not deliberately targeting members of the Trump team but rather recorded communications through “incidental collection,” CNN reports.

This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information under the “Five Eyes” (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada), which calls for sharing certain types of Intel information among those five members.

Over several months, different agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern in communications between the Trump campaign inner circle and Russian operatives. For six months, until summer of 2016, interactions were repeatedly flagged to intelligence officials in the US who sources said were slow to act, with a source telling the Guardian: “It looks like the U.S. agencies were asleep” [just as European agencies said there were contacts going on between people close to Trump and people believed to be Russian intelligence agents. You should be wary of this]. “The message was in essence: Watch out. There’s something not right here.”

GCHQ's involvement in the investigation is controversial. Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer previously accused: “The British spying agency of bugging Trump Tower on behalf of Barack Obama.” Spicer cited an unsubstantiated report on FOX News – from which FOX later distanced itself. At that same time, GCHQ diverged from its usual policy of refraining from commenting by describing the Spicer allegation as “nonsense.”

Yes, utter nonsense the Brits say, but I wager that Sean Spicer will totally disagree, um? BTW: A new SNL slot awaits him — don't be late.

Spicer (R) McCarty (L) — I think ... damn

Stay tuned — a shit pot full of shoes yet to drop.