Yes, but as was articulated for years ‘collusion’ is not a crime. Collude all you want, just don’t conspire.
Attempting to overthrow the elected government of the US is a crime. Interfering the US election is a crime, and so is using false information as pretext for government surveillance.
The US government can also get information from the British that would violate US laws against spying on US citizens.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/03/14/napolitano_obama_admin_used_british_intel_service_to_spy_on_trump_during_campaign.html
Should the US government demand extradition of British spies involved in the attempted coup?
Don’t forget Erika Thompson and Christian Cantor.
If there’s evidence you can indict the people on this side of the pond who took part.
Apparently 2 years isn’t long enough to get to the bottom of this.
An Israeli embassy official in London named Christian Cantor introduced Papadopoulos, who he previously knew, to Erika Thompson, a counselor to Downer who serves in the Australia’s London embassy.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/22/george-papadopoulos-trump-collusion/
There is definitely a tangled web, but London seems to be at the center of it all.
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Sometimes people are too distracted by noise and confusion to see the 800-lb gorilla sitting in the middle of the room.
The facts look obvious to me: The British surveillance services waged war against the Trump campaign, and their surveillance and attempts to frame Trump associates served as a basis for the failed coup attempt.
The last time the Brits tried interference in US affairs on this scale it did not end well for them:
none of those people work for the British government.
running a private intelligence firm isn’t a crime in either UK or US.
Did the coup include getting Trump associates to plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit?
My guess is the framing failed (to give your version some credence) but the crooks were still guilty of the crimes to which they pleaded guilty.
And the “coup” is just a trigger word for those that keep forgetting this all started with real Russian interference. Actual hacking and misinformation and troll farms.
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Published reports say otherwise. Does the British government publicly announce who is employed for their intelligence agencies?
During the Vietnam War, many CIA operatives were officially employed by Air America.
Attempting to overthrow the elected government is a crime. Foreign interference in US elections is also a crime.
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They didn’t attempt to overthrow anything they publish a dossier.
They are all retired intelligence agents.
they work in the private sector now.
The Brits pretty much won that war, and the treaty that settled it pretty much changed absolutely nothing.
If you believe that, I have a bridge you may be interested in buying . . .
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Yet there is no charges, extraditions, etc.
why not is Trump and Barr scared.
Funny thing the war started over something already settled the blockaid of American ships, simply took to long for the news to reach American government and they got jumpy.
There has always been Russian interference in that way. The fake part was attributing it to the Trump campaign based on a fake dossier. And that dossier was all over the FBI
It makes no sense that a statement by Papad… that a Russian told him that they had some letters of Hillary would instigate an investigation of collusion with the campaign. At no point did Papad… say he had anything to do with getting those.
If the British agents are just rogue actors without the support of the British government, then the UK should have no problem with extraditing them to the US to face questioning and possible criminal charges. Instead they are all hiding out of reach of American justice with tacit support of the British government.
Are coup attempts and election interference fine so long as they come from countries that speak the same language?
They only assisted the DNC, the Hillary campaign, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DoJ, the State Department and the WH. This is the real den of thieves that is slowly being exposed. They all united to first get Hillary’s potential indictment removed, her elected and when that failed, Trump removed from office. Drip, drip, drip…
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