Man in the Middle with His Two BFF's Behind Him All the Way

The Donald Front and Center with Pals: Julian Assange and Vladimir Putin

We keep our secrets up here not in public

Astonishing story – Earth-shaking if confirmed as factual … totally astonishing:

My first Q is simple and based on the below story: “Did Trump himself or and anyone close to him get Russia to drop their threat about the info they have on Trump?”

The story from CNN with this headlines: Intel Chiefs Presented Trump with Claims of Russian Efforts to Compromise Him.

That story is here [click].

And, also coverage from these three other sources (various details):

1.  Bombshell CNN report: Russia might have dirt on Trump - Vox

2.  Russian hackers claim to have compromising information on Trump: MSN

3.  Russian hacking and the 2016 election (Dec 12, 2016): CNN

The most-important is this my second Q: “What was so damaging and compromising to Trump that the Russians did not release the info they had on him?”

Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump (multiple U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN).

The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work U.S intelligence officials consider credible. 

The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.

The classified briefings were presented by four of the senior-most U.S. intelligence chiefs: (1) Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, (21) FBI Director James Comey, (3) CIA Director John Brennan, and (4) NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.

One reason the nation's intelligence chiefs took the extraordinary step of including the synopsis in the briefing documents was to make the President-elect aware that such allegations involving him are circulating among intelligence agencies, to senior members of Congress, and to other government officials in Washington (multiple sources tell CNN).

These same senior intelligence officials also included the synopsis to demonstrate that Russia had compiled information potentially harmful to both political parties, but only released information damaging to Hillary Clinton and Democrats.

Finally, my Summary:

All this is precisely why I raise this third question: “Why only one sided release and what do the Russians intend to do now, e.g., hold that information over Trump’s head to get something, anything from him that benefits them down the road?”

This is last part is the most-critical of all along with my three questions about this truly astonishing story which can be assessed as far bigger than any hacking of the DNC, et al, except I guess that of Trump’s data that the Russians may now have that the Brits spoke about, or certainly is far bigger than Hillary Clinton’s email server scandal that that public knew about for so such a long time and that is this:

What the Russians have and our Intelligence officials know about, needs to be made public and ASAP since we cannot have our president in the position of being blackmailed or threatened by the Russians or any other foreign entity on any level … this is very, very serious business folks.

So, what info does the Russians have and what if anything has been promised them to hold it, not release it, or to possibly destroy it? We have a compelling right to know, absolutely – regardless the fallout.

Stay tuned for sure.