Beyond simple assertions that both men are above reproach I’ve seen little in their actions that lend such assertions any credence.
Are you a fan of Daniel Greenfield?
Both men have long, spotless career histories.
Beyond simple assertions that both men are above reproach I’ve seen little in their actions that lend such assertions any credence.
Are you a fan of Daniel Greenfield?
Both men have long, spotless career histories.
We can play this all day lol.
You hate Gowdy, but he’s well regarded in congress by people in both parties. And he thinks it’s time for a second SP.
Steele is above reproach? Maybe at one time in his career -but he sold out ( and he knew it was Clinton behind the payments)Steele is like Mueller.. above reproach.. Do you not respect men like that?
why? when did cost concerns ever stop DoJ?The set aside 3-4 million dollars and do it.
Gowdy didn't just jump in without weighing all the factors.We can play this all day lol.
You hate Gowdy, but he’s well regarded in congress by people in both parties. And he thinks it’s time for a second SP.
too much reliance on an old link.. events have changed. even Session says he'll investigate since thenFox News is not reliable when it comes to Trump.. Try 6 other news outlets at random.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier
Schiff is a typical shifty Dem..Adam Schiff lol?
He seems to care greatly when republicans charge that it was used to get the FISA warrant on Carter Page.
not much of a link..It says Steele was useful for Crimea 2014..but do you think his hatred of TrumpA reporter who met with the former spy behind the Trump-Russia dossier explains why it’s not 'fake news'
Grant Eizikowitz, Natasha Bertrand and Lamar Salter
Dec. 26, 2017, 9:08 AM
Excerpt:
According to people I've talked to, who are kind of close to "Steele", believe that the dossier is not flawless. One or two things may be wrong. He acknowledges that there's raw intelligence but broadly he thinks it's right. And he says it's between 70-90% correct. That's his kind of assessment. Which for an intelligence report is pretty good.
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For example, Steele read a whole lot of reports about the war in Ukraine in 2014, using these same sources that were behind the Trump dossier. And they were well received by US intelligence, who were actually sent up to John Kerry in the State Department and they were accurate.
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-...-fake-news-spy-luke-harding-collusion-2017-12
Gowdy didn't just jump in without weighing all the factors.
I saw him and he said there were 20 something witnesses that IG Horowitz could not get to
McCabe may still be up for indictment if they get an SP..Yup.
That’s why McCabe bailed. He knew once he was out of the agency Horowitz couldn’t get to him. That’s why I’m saying it may be now or never on Swamp draining.
Back in the fall and winter of 2016 the media even reported that the dossier was providing the FBI with a “roadmap” for its investigation of alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
But now it’s clear that the dossier was nothing more than an expensive political dirty trick by the Russians, the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign.
Recall that back in the October 2016 the New York Times and Politico breathlessly reported that then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., sent a letter a FBI director James Comey. In it Reid claimed that he was aware that Comey held “explosive information” about close ties between the Russians and the Trump campaign.
Reid was referring to the Steele dossier. How did Reid know about this dossier? A couple of ways. First, then-CIA director John Brennan briefed him on the matter. Second, a reporter friendly to the Clinton campaign – David Corn of Mother Jones – had already been reporting on the dossier, despite the now rewritten history that the dossier was first published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.
The media’s reporting on the material in the Steele dossier and reporting that senior Obama administration officials were sharing the information in official government briefings with senators was the best outcome the Russians, the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign could have hoped for.
All this created a patina of legitimacy around the unverified allegations in the Steele dossier – despite the fact that the dossier had never been vetted by the CIA or FBI for accuracy.
Well into October and after the election, the media were still reporting that the dossier was being used as a “road map” by the FBI in its investigation into alleged Trump campaign collusion with the Russians – a baseless accusation that remains unproven to this day.
We now know that the Fusion GPS dossier was nothing more than propaganda, much of it fed to Steele and Fusion GPS by current and former Russian intelligence operatives. In short, the Democrats, the Clinton campaign and the media facilitated the Russians’ most effective campaign tactic to undercut Americans’ faith in two important institutions: government and the media.
To be clear, it would appear that many in the mainstream media, our government and one of our major political parties were willing stooges in a massive Russian misinformation campaign. Because the dossier fed into their biases against Donald Trump, many ate it up – hook, line and sinker.
Yet, rather than own up to their failures, the media are doing what most people do when caught in a lie or a serious error in judgment: changing the narrative, shifting the blame and just making up another story.
In recent days, we’ve seen coordinated pushback, from yet another anonymously sourced piece by the New York Times, a supporting op-ed by the founders of Fusion GPS in the same newspaper, and now Democratic members of Congress loudly proclaiming that the dossier is really not that significant in the Russia investigation.
Really? CNN reported in April of 2017: “The FBI last year used a dossier of allegations of Russian ties to Donald Trump's campaign as part of the justification to win approval to secretly monitor a Trump associate, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.” In other words, our government was weaponized against private citizens based on a piece of partisan propaganda.
That’s one hell of a story. Yet members of the left and the media are now working to reverse themselves, to undermine the very role they reported the dossier played in the investigation, to find something else – anything else – to blame for triggering the Russia investigation.
This is happening because the continued highlighting of the fake dossier’s role in the investigation reveals the media’s complicity in the fairytale of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. But no matter how many times this phony story gets repeated, it remains nothing more than an anti-Trump smear job without a basis in fact.
If the fake dossier funded by Democrats spurred on the Russia investigation and was in many ways the impetus for the probe, this calls into question the entire legitimacy of the investigation. In addition, it would confirm in many ways what President Trump has been saying all along: that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is in fact nothing but a political witch hunt meant to nullify the 2016 elections.
But it’s another issue that should give every American – regardless of political affiliation – pause. Did a political party in power weaponize government against its opponents in an attempt to hold onto power? And was the self-appointed watchdog of government – a free, but at many times dishonest press – unwittingly or wittingly complicit in the effort?
The very troubling aspect, and an ironic one, is that for 90-plus years phony dossiers, rumors and innuendo were used by the Soviet Union’s KGB spy agency to send innocent people to imprisonment in the gulags. The state-controlled media did nothing to expose this, and were in fact used as tools by the government.
And we should never forget that the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931 for what turned out to be propaganda fed to its Moscow correspondent by the Russian government. In the 1980s, the Times finally admitted the truth: “Taking Soviet propaganda at face value this way was completely misleading, as talking with ordinary Russians might have revealed even at the time.”
Some folks never learn. We are now seeing some of the same behavior: a phony dossier used as justification to spy on American citizens, used to spin up investigations that are illegitimate, all wrapped in whisper and rumor campaigns and anonymously sourced stories.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/06/real-problem-with-fusion-gps-steele-dossier.html
gawd forbid you ever make a comment on a substance of an article, can't have that-that requires you to thinkFOX OPINION'hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
because you are a moron..anything is worth looking at, especiaily when it comes to Spooks.I DONT WASTE TIME READING RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA
too much reliance on an old link.. events have changed. even Session says he'll investigate since then
check your dates, or I am looking at wrong link..and today is only the 8thThat link is from March 12, 2018...