NEW: Former head of CIA counter-intelligence James Olson tells me of the FBI sending an investigator to interview @GeorgePapa19 under false pretenses in London in 2016: "Yeah I’d call that spying" https://t.co/KDb64M4ODx pic.twitter.com/6ENJ8K6Ix7— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) May 6, 2019
The Hill: Former CIA official on FBI's 2016 actions: 'I'd call that spying'
The FBI's reported attempt to obtain information under false pretenses from former Trump campaign operative George Papadopoulos in 2016 constitutes spying, former CIA counter-intelligence chief James Olson told Hill.TV in an interview Monday.
"It does sound like spying," Olson said, adding that "spying can take many different forms and the art of spying has evolved."
He went on to say that "the old fashioned ways of misrepresenting yourselves or approaching someone under false pretenses is still kind of the tried and true -- that sounds like what happened here."
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Update: 'I'd Call That Spying': CIA's Ex-Counterintel Chief Says FBI Conducted Espionage On Trump Campaign (Zero Hedge).
WNU Editor: DUH!!!!!
Update: Hmmmm. Even former Former Director of National Intelligence is admitting the obvious (see below).
Even Clapper agrees: “Well, yeah, I guess it meets the dictionary definition of spying."#Spygatepic.twitter.com/TbbMTqDeG4— Voice of The Mute (@eduardoauthor) May 7, 2019
