Month: May 2018

by George Rasley   Last Friday, the Washington Post and New York Times published articles that shed much more light on the Obama administration’s surveillance of the Trump campaign. There was indeed an FBI informant – Stefan Halper – spying on Trump campaign officials. The New York Times and Washington Post, by the way, were apparently aware of Halper’s identity, but chose not to publish it, probably because it did not advance the narrative that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. According to New York Magazine’s Benjamin Hart, the Times said it made its decision because it “typically does not name informants to preserve their safety.” The Post reports that it received “warnings from U.S. intelligence officials that exposing him could endanger him or his contacts,” and that “the stakes are so high that the FBI has been working over the past two weeks to mitigate the potential damage if the source’s identity is revealed, according to several people familiar with the matter.” Democratic Senator Mark Warner, who has struggled mightily to make himself relevant in the congressional investigations, ludicrously called outing him “potentially illegal.” Similarly, the Justice Department allegedly strongly pushed back on revealing the informant’s identity, but anyone with a passing familiarity with establishment Republican national security figures from the Cold…