Is this the "collusion" everyone's wondering about? Before the 2016 election, a Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton's private server, likely by Russian hackers. In conversations and emails, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, and an ally implied they were working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, then an adviser to candidate Donald Trump.
From the Wall Street Journal:
The operation Mr. Smith described is consistent with information that has been examined by U.S. investigators probing Russian interference in the elections. Those investigators have examined reports from intelligence agencies that describe Russian hackers discussing how to obtain emails from Mrs. Clinton's server and then transmit them to Mr. Flynn via an intermediary, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence.
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