Gossip to understand who this agent was? There is no reason to expose an FBI agent concerned for the country. Cheney did with Valerie Plame, because, the "W" White House was exposed by her husband, Joe Wilson (click here).
This is actually a mystery? Not. George Papadopoulos spoke with an Australian diplomate, Alexander Downer about issues involving foreign influence in the Trump campaign. Then the FBI, under Comey, began to wonder about Russia and it's influence. What is the issue?
...George Papadopoulos told the diplomat, Alexander Downer, during a meeting in London in May 2016...
There is no issue in regard to the FBI's investigation under Comey. If there was an agent assigned to the report from Australia, everyone was doing their job. Considering we know that Trump and Comey had serious discussions regarding Russian prostitutes I would say the FBI agent gathered whatever evidence was available to him/her and consolidated a report to the Director. What didn't show up in the report is what the Mueller investigation would disclose later, in that Trump's campaign had direct contact with Russian operatives. Comey didn't know that yet. It was exposed by the Mueller investigation from my understanding.
THERE IS NO THERE THERE, except for FOX and Trump attempting to drum up some kind of political drumbeat for their own purposes. While a paranoid president is worried about the facts, he does not have the right to expose an FBI agent.
May 18, 2018
By Robert Costa, Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett
...In late summer, (click here) 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. In September, he reached out to George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign-policy adviser for the campaign, inviting him to London to work on a research paper.
Many questions about the informant’s role in the Russia investigation remain unanswered. It is unclear how he first became involved in the case, the extent of the information he provided and the actions he took to obtain intelligence for the FBI. It is also unknown whether his July 2016 interaction with Page was brokered by the FBI or another intelligence agency.
The FBI commonly uses sources and informants to gather evidence and its regulations allow for use of informants even before a formal investigation has been opened. In many law enforcement investigations, the use of sources and informants precedes more invasive techniques such as electronic surveillance....
John Brennan in Ukraine:
The Ukrainian upheaval which started with the Maidan was Feb 18, 2014 – Feb 23, 2014. John Brennan better have been on his way to Ukraine after the events of Ukraine. The USA, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine were bound by a treaty that prevented interference by any of the parties in internal affairs of Ukraine.
Brennan had limited options to his efforts to gather evidence about interference by Russia. He could not start any initiative without evidence that the treaty was violated by any party.
Crimea was going to fall to Russia's influence with a broken treaty. Putin was heavily involved in Crimea and often used the island as a political prop in a promise to his nationalist rant of the "Russian people."
So, John Brennan who is above reproach and an untarnished reputation, did his job. He went to Ukraine to learn what he could and understand if the treaty was violated or not. From that fact finding of John Brennan came the approach by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel to bring criticism of Russia for it's interference. What followed the interference by Russia, evidence the treaty was broken, were the sanctions. President Obama did his job. He was able to leverage sanctions for the illegal actions of Russia.
John Brennan did his job and he did it well. President Obama was right to carry out sanctions against Russia for a violated treaty that was to protect the lives of the people of Ukraine.
April 16, 2014
...Ukraine (click here) is on the brink of civil war, Vladimir Putin has said, and he should know because the country is already in the midst of a covert intelligence war. Over the weekend, CIA director John Brennan travelled to Kiev, nobody knows exactly why, but some speculate that he intends to open US intelligence resources to Ukrainian leaders about real-time Russian military maneuvers. The US has, thus far, refrained from sharing such knowledge because Moscow is believed to have penetrated much of Ukraine’s communications systems – and Washington isn’t about to hand over its surveillance secrets to the Russians....
...So what kind of conversations did Brennan have during his visit? There’s no way of knowing for sure of course. But, according to my sources, and based on my experience of reporting on the Russian invasion of Georgia, the US-Ukraine information exchange would go a lot further than simply tracking numbers and motions of Russian tanks and soldiers. The operative term here is ‘non-lethal’ help – that remains Washington’s official position....
These deaths should have never occurred and would not have occurred if Russia had not broken the treaty by entering Crimea and annexing it. This is a violation of international agreements to protect smaller countries from those capable of large military operations. The sanctions are to bring an end to the violence and end the deaths taking place in Ukraine. Russia is the ONLY country actively involved in the civil war of Ukraine. Recently, NATO countries were able to help the current Ukraine government in providing military aid in the way of weapons. It is believed if there is a balance of power in the country, the civil war will be forced to abide by Minsk II (click here).
There is nothing inappropriate by the Obama intelligence agencies and Ukraine is finding stability as it can and the people are beginning to rebuild their country. They have great hope the country will someday be reunited in peace.
Ukraine death toll
Deaths by regions
