Source for Putin favoring Trump may have lied

Yesterday the #FakeNews media broke the story that a very highly placed US spy in the Kremlin had been extracted to safety in the US.

This spy was the primary source for the CIA's claim that Putin wanted Trump to win in 2016.

While CNN claimed that it was Trump who forced the extraction it turns out that the New York Times said that the CIA said that wasn't the case.

But the story that people are missing is that there is strong evidence that this "spy" might have been a double agent feeding disinformation to the US; including lying about Putin wanting Trump to win.

The first red flag was that when offered extraction in 2016 the "spy" refused.  While this is highly unusual, generally speaking people who are looking at being executed at any second are eager to retire to the US, it's not 100% proof that the "spy" was a double agent.  But given that the CIA wanted to extract the "spy" because the US press had been talking about him in ways that could make it relatively easy for the Russians to figure out who the "spy" was it is very odd.

More importantly according to the NYT:

"Some operatives had other reasons to suspect the source could be a double agent, according to two former officials, but they declined to explain further…."

That is even more troubling.  Some will say that since the "spy" chose to be extracted just recently that proves that they weren't a double agent but that's not in fact true.  If the CIA was beginning to suspect the source of being a double agent the only way to keep the CIA from discovering the Russian deception would be to have the "spy" play along and come to the US.

Given that the CIA takes good care of key assets and given that the "spy" would know that Putin wouldn't in fact be trying to kill them retirement to the US in order to ensure that the CIA keeps trusting them is hardly an unlikely scenario.

What's also interesting is that there was no example during the Obama administration when this "spy" was active of Obama being able to beat the Russians because he knew what Putin was doing.  In fact the Obama presidency is marked by a uniform submission to key Putin goals.  From not deploying missile defense systems to Europe--to protect Europe from Iranian missiles--to letting Putin run Syria after Obama's red line had been breached Obama was far more friendly to Putin than Trump has been.

But if we had a source with direct access to Putin one would have thought that we would have done better.  Consider this; suppose the "spy" told Obama that Putin would go to war over Syria or the missile defense systems even though Putin had no intention to do so. That could explain why Obama caved to Putin on so many issues.  Given that the Russians are masters at disinformation this scenario is not far fetched at all.

We can't trust #FakeNews media reporting that the "spy" is credible because it's clearly in the best interest of the #FakeNews media to support the credibility of the "spy" since without him the entire "Russians won the election for Trump" story which is believed by many Democrats would collapse.

This is an example of how the constant lying by the #FakeNews media is damaging our free press; because we know that they will lie to attack Trump we can't know if in fact their reporting on this "spy" is accurate or not.  

Just one more example of how lying by the #FakeNews media is spreading the darkness that will destroy democracy.