The Spies Who Hijacked America – Reporting by Matt Taibbi
Global scandals now labeled Russiagate, Spygate, and what President Trump calls Obamagate shook the political world, but hit me closer to home. I m the reason the so-called FBI spy at the center of Spygate, Stefan Halper, met Carter Page, the alleged Russian Asset in Russiagate s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
On May 19, 2018, this realization blindsided me in London as I was about to fly out for my wedding. The New York Times, NBC News and other sources had outed my PhD supervisor, Stefan Halper, as a spy known to the UK s MI6 intelligence service as The Walrus.
It didn t seem real. Could a former professor I once trusted as a mentor have betrayed his word, profession, and country to start these disasters? I had moved to England to pursue an academic career and leave DC s politics behind, only to have my PhD supervisor throw me back into the most outrageous political firestorms I could imagine. Just my luck. Then an even worse question began nagging at me. Did I unintentionally light the match that started it all?