Campaign informant revealed as Cambridge professor, sparking debate on treason

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Trump campaign informant revealed as Cambridge professor, sparking debate on treason. Republicans think this news is proof Trump was spied on, while Dems argue the name shouldn’t have been disclosed

FFor weeks, congressional Republicans tried to procure sensitive information relating to a source involved with the Trump campaign, which culminated in a standoff between Rep. Devin Nunes and the Department of Justice. On Friday, reports suggested that a Cambridge professor with "ties" to the CIA was the root of the controversy.

The Daily Caller reported Friday that Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor who served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, was the informant who sought information about the hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton. During the campaign, Halper reached out to two campaign associates who have now become targets of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

Halper contacted George Papadopoulos in September under the guise of a business opportunity. The academic flew Papadopoulos out to London for the purpose of discussing a potential policy paper on energy issues in Turkey and Cyprus, however, much of their talks ended up focusing on Russia's alleged involvement in the hacked emails. According to the New York Times, Halper asked Papadopoulos over drinks what he knew about Russia's participation. Papadopoulos insisted he did not have any personal knowledge of this, but did say that, months earlier, he had heard that Russians had damaging information on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of her emails.

Halper also met repeatedly with Carter Page in the run up to the election. Their communications continued through 2017. Page told the Times that their interactions were mostly benign, but they were significant in that their last exchange in September 2017 was about a month before a secret warrant to surveil Page expired.

The reporting from the Times has shown that Halper was not a secret agent or a mole, as Trump would like the American people to believe. Halper simply sought out certain campaign officials and asked them questions about Russia, hardly the espionage campaign Nunes thought was being concealed by the Department of Justice weeks ago.

If Halper was not a "secret agent", then why did the F Bee eye get him to set up PapaD? He did not act on his own. Why was he seeking out campaign officials except to set them up. Why did he ask PapaD if he knew about the HRC emails that the Russians hade. PapaD did not know anything about the possibility that the Russians had HRCs emails until Mifsud told him. The meting between PapaD and Mifsud was set up too. Harper, Mifsud, and Downer were used by the F Bee Eye to setup members of Trumps campaign team to make it appear that there was a Trump/Russia connection. They set it all up.

Everyone involved should be tried for treason because all of this was done to remove a duly elected press of the US. This is treason.