Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting
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WASHINGTON
A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.
During the same period of late August or early September, electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency picked up a conversation among Russians, one of whom remarked that Cohen was in Prague, two people familiar with the incident said.
The phone and surveillance data, which have not previously been disclosed, lend new credence to a key part of a former British spy’s dossier of Kremlin intelligence describing purported coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia’s election meddling operation.
The dossier, which Trump has dismissed as “a pile of garbage,” said Cohen and one or more Kremlin officials huddled in or around the Czech capital to plot ways to limit discovery of the close “liaison” between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The new information regarding the recovery of Cohen’s cell phone location doesn’t explain why he was apparently there or who he was meeting with, if anyone. But it adds to evidence that Cohen was in or near Prague around the time of the supposed meeting.
Both of the newly surfaced foreign electronic intelligence intercepts were shared with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, people familiar with the matter said. Mueller is investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference and whether Trump’s campaign colluded in the scheme. Mueller also is examining whether Trump has obstructed the sweeping inquiry.
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This is a big story. If it is true it gives immense credence to the Dossier.
McClatchy seems to be hitching their journalistic reputation to this story. The stakes are high.
"Cohen In Prague" has become the holy grail of trump-Russia collusion evidence.
Oops, somebody is in very hot water........
(waits for a response via a 2:00 am Tweet storm)
Actually it is false. Cohen has always denied it and now his lawyer Lanny Davis (former Clinton operative) also denies it. Cohen never even had a passport for Prague. What it shows is how certain people fed false stories to the media (in this case McClatchy). The purpose of witch was obviously to lend some credibility to the "Dossier". The Washington Post spent a lot of time trying to verify if this story was true and never could.
So for McClatchy and now you - Prove there was signals from Cohen's phone in Prague.
Davis is no longer his lawyer.
Nope, he had one for Germany. Do you travel much? Once you get a visa from one of the Shengen territory countries you don't need a visa, nor do you need to get your passport stamped to travel directly between them. They have open borders on the interior.
If you get in trouble, get sick, reported missing they just run your passport say, in Spain. It will come back that you entered through whatever terminal in the territory.
Nice try but McClachky has been on this bone for some time. They have more than one official confirmations of the pings.
But but, Hillary. No wait, Bill or Obama....OMG all three of them.
nothing for nothing, but there have been hundreds of stories about cell phones being cloned.
Either Cohen was there with his cell phone or someone else was with his phone or a clone.
How many dozen cell phones did the FBI "collect" from Cohen?
Cohen maintains his "innocence".
The real question is, "why would someone do that"?
Identity theft mostly. These young people keep credit cards on different phone apps like Uber and Lyft.
Easy to hack if you have the account number.
Fair enough, I just think it would be a far too convenient excuse. Along the lines of, "Oh those drugs? But these aren't my pants!!!".
The real question is why would McClatchy editors print a story with no proof or better still why are so many news organizations now doing the same thing?
So either mueller star witnesses lying, Again, or mcclatchey’s reporting is wrong, again