agencies was exposed months ago. He, as well as Halper and several female honeypots were deployed to interact with Flynn, Popadopolus, and Carter Page way back before Trump won the Pub nomination. Some of the contacts date back to 2015. The goal was to dirty them up and use these contacts to predicate IC investigations in the future.
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