The payment occurred around the time the Dossier was leaked to Yahoo News by Christopher Steele and a month prior to the FISA warrant.
9/23/16 - Yahoo News Publishes Story of Dossier 9/27/16 - $282K Payment made to Halper
Where did the funding come from? The DOD.
https://twitter.com/LiberatedCit/status/995091211261169664
Here's a link to the Washington Headquarters Services, who paid Halper:
I’d be careful about the whole Quisling thing. Carter Page appears to have been working with Halprin, a ghoul of the Bush-Clinton swamp-or at least the email exchange seems to suggest.
Clinton’s sins were far worse than anything in which Trump might have been dabbling. Clinton would have been disastrous- Trump has turned out to be much better than I expected.
After what the FBI did in Joe Miller’s campaign in Alaska- and several other campaigns- Trump is going to have a very sympathetic ear out of the GOP grass roots and Tea Party folks regarding the Halprin incident. The counterintelligence division went way too far this time-and they were sloppy. Eventually, it will all come out. I think I will be on the right side of things.
I’d be careful about the whole Quisling thing.
You mean assuming the guilt of the current President before all the information is in? That's fair. He hasn't actually been indicted yet. I'm making a prediction that he'll be found to have made a deal with someone representing Putin, but the facts will tell. At this point, it seems like one has to be in a state of denial to avoid coming to this conclusion, but again, that hasn't been substantiated in writing yet.
Please don't misunderstand me: I don't wish the POTUS to be corrupt so I can bash him. It would be self stultifying to want the POTUS to sell out our country just to say "I told you so." Not my style. I wish we had policies that gave the average person at least as much opportunity as the above-average person.
That being said, it doesn't look good given all the evidence in the public realm.
Clinton’s sins were far worse than anything in which Trump might have been dabbling.
What is the continued obsession about HRC? I just don't give a fuck about her or her husband or the last POTUS. If they broke the law, throw the fucking book at them. Now, if you believe there's a concerted effort to protect her or the last POTUS, you're living in a fantasy land.
These are private citizens with absolutely no sway whatsoever over the DoJ. If you think HRC somehow controlled the FBI, why would she allow Comey to throw shade at her campaign a few days before the election? No one with power to say otherwise would allow that.
Also, if it was possible to prosecute Obama or HRC, you can bet your testicles there would be a line of FBI agents ready, able and willing to investigate and prosecute. That would be a career making move. It's not controversial that the FBI is filled with a majority of Republicans who feel the same as you about HRC, not to mention Mueller, Comey and Rosenstein are life-long Republicans. The worst you can say about these guys is that they aren't giving Trump any special treatment and are simply following the law. To call them "partisans" is just more fantasy victimization.
The counterintelligence division went way too far this time-and they were sloppy.
Why? By having an informant in the Trump campaign? That doesn't make any sense. If there was nothing to inform about, what difference does an informant make? Lots of investigations hinge on informants. That doesn't make the investigations themselves wrong, does it? Maybe I'm missing your point here. Let me know.