You can mock her all you want, but in light of all the sex pervert and pedophilia stuff that's come out about Hollywood, it's not that farfetched.
Fusion GPS dossier was one of the dirtiest political tricks in U.S. history
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You can mock her all you want, but in light of all the sex pervert and pedophilia stuff that's come out about Hollywood, it's not that farfetched.
And about time, too!
The Roman Polanski chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters program.
WRAY: I'm not going to discuss anything to do with the FISA court applications.
JORDAN: Remember a couple things, director... about the dossier. The Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign --which we now know were one in the same-- paid the law firm, who paid Fusion GPS, who paid Christopher Steele, who then paid Russians to put together a report we call the dossier, filled with all kinds of fake news National Enquirer garbage.
It has been reported that this dossier "was all dressed up" by the FBI, taken to the FISA court where it was painted as a legitimate intelligence document, that it became the basis for granting a warrant to spy on Americans.
I'm wondering if that all actually took place, it sure looks like it did...
I think Peter Strzok, head of counterintelligence at the FBI, Peter Strzok, the guy who ran the FBI's Clinton investigation, did all the interviews, Peter Strzok, the guy who was running the Russia investigation at the FBI, Peter Strzok, Mr. Super Agent at the FBI, I think he is the guy that took the application to the FISA court.
And if this happened, if you have the FBI working with the Democrats' campaign, to take opposition research, dress it all up and turning it into an intelligence document to take it to a FISA court so they can spy on another campaign, if that happened, that is as wrong as it gets...
JORDAN: Remember a couple things, director... about the dossier. The Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign --which we now know were one in the same-- paid the law firm, who paid Fusion GPS, who paid Christopher Steele, who then paid Russians to put together a report we call the dossier, filled with all kinds of fake news National Enquirer garbage.
It has been reported that this dossier "was all dressed up" by the FBI, taken to the FISA court where it was painted as a legitimate intelligence document, that it became the basis for granting a warrant to spy on Americans.
I'm wondering if that all actually took place, it sure looks like it did...
I think Peter Strzok, head of counterintelligence at the FBI, Peter Strzok, the guy who ran the FBI's Clinton investigation, did all the interviews, Peter Strzok, the guy who was running the Russia investigation at the FBI, Peter Strzok, Mr. Super Agent at the FBI, I think he is the guy that took the application to the FISA court.
And if this happened, if you have the FBI working with the Democrats' campaign, to take opposition research, dress it all up and turning it into an intelligence document to take it to a FISA court so they can spy on another campaign, if that happened, that is as wrong as it gets...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...lls_fbi_director_wray_about_peter_strzok.html
The department's Bruce Ohr, a career official, served as associate deputy attorney general at the time of the campaign. That placed him just below the deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, who ran the day-to-day operations of the department. In 2016, Ohr's office was just steps away from Yates, who was later fired for defying President Trump's initial travel ban executive order and still later became a prominent anti-Trump voice upon leaving the Justice Department.
Unbeknownst to investigators until recently, Ohr knew Steele and had repeated contacts with Steele when Steele was working on the dossier. Ohr also met after the election with Glenn Simpson, head of Fusion GPS, the opposition research company that was paid by the Clinton campaign to compile the dossier.
Word that Ohr met with Steele and Simpson, first reported by Fox News' James Rosen and Jake Gibson, was news to some current officials in the Justice Department. Shortly after learning it, they demoted Ohr, taking away his associate deputy attorney general title and moving him full time to another position running the department's organized crime drug enforcement task forces.
The news also stunned some of those who had been investigating the matter. Yes, they knew that knowledge of the dossier extended to some officials in the FBI. That was bad enough; how could the FBI endorse and consider underwriting one campaign's dirt-digging operation in the middle of a hotly contested election? But now investigators know that nearly the highest levels of the Obama Justice Department were also aware of the dossier.
Investigators believe the dossier's sensational allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign played a role in the beginning of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump-Russia affair — an investigation that later morphed into special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
Byron York: Dossier author was in contact with Obama Justice Department
Unbeknownst to investigators until recently, Ohr knew Steele and had repeated contacts with Steele when Steele was working on the dossier. Ohr also met after the election with Glenn Simpson, head of Fusion GPS, the opposition research company that was paid by the Clinton campaign to compile the dossier.
Word that Ohr met with Steele and Simpson, first reported by Fox News' James Rosen and Jake Gibson, was news to some current officials in the Justice Department. Shortly after learning it, they demoted Ohr, taking away his associate deputy attorney general title and moving him full time to another position running the department's organized crime drug enforcement task forces.
The news also stunned some of those who had been investigating the matter. Yes, they knew that knowledge of the dossier extended to some officials in the FBI. That was bad enough; how could the FBI endorse and consider underwriting one campaign's dirt-digging operation in the middle of a hotly contested election? But now investigators know that nearly the highest levels of the Obama Justice Department were also aware of the dossier.
Investigators believe the dossier's sensational allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign played a role in the beginning of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump-Russia affair — an investigation that later morphed into special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
Byron York: Dossier author was in contact with Obama Justice Department
Wood insists that he’s never read the dossier that his good friend and longtime colleague prepared. It was commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
In August 2016, “[Steele] came to me to tell me what was in it, and why it … was important,” Wood said. “He made it very clear … yes, it was raw intelligence, but it needed putting into proper context before you could judge it fully.”
August 2016 is a critical period, just after the FBI opened the Russia meddling probe, and after then-director James Comey recommended against prosecution for Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.
Wood said Steele had “already been in contact with the FBI” at the time.
“He said there was corroborating evidence in the United States, from which I assumed he was working with an American company,” Wood said.
British court records reviewed by Fox News as well as U.S. congressional testimony revealed that Steele was directed and paid at least $168,000 by Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson to push the research that fall to five American media outlets. According to British court documents, Steele met with The New York Times (twice), The Washington Post (twice), CNN, The New Yorker and Yahoo News (twice).
Along with the senator, Wood and McCain Institute for International Leadership staffer David J. Kramer attended the Canadian conference.
British court records state McCain ordered Kramer to get a personal briefing from Steele in Surrey, just outside of London, and then return to Washington, D.C., where Fusion GPS would provide McCain with hard copies.
In January, McCain officially gave the dossier to the FBI, which already had its own copy from Steele.
Of note, listed in the official program for the 2016 November Canadian conference as a participant was Rinat Akhmetshin — the same Russian lobbyist who was at Trump Tower five months earlier in June for a highly scrutinized meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and others.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...er-handoff-mccains-go-between-speaks-out.html
In August 2016, “[Steele] came to me to tell me what was in it, and why it … was important,” Wood said. “He made it very clear … yes, it was raw intelligence, but it needed putting into proper context before you could judge it fully.”
August 2016 is a critical period, just after the FBI opened the Russia meddling probe, and after then-director James Comey recommended against prosecution for Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.
Wood said Steele had “already been in contact with the FBI” at the time.
“He said there was corroborating evidence in the United States, from which I assumed he was working with an American company,” Wood said.
British court records reviewed by Fox News as well as U.S. congressional testimony revealed that Steele was directed and paid at least $168,000 by Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson to push the research that fall to five American media outlets. According to British court documents, Steele met with The New York Times (twice), The Washington Post (twice), CNN, The New Yorker and Yahoo News (twice).
Along with the senator, Wood and McCain Institute for International Leadership staffer David J. Kramer attended the Canadian conference.
British court records state McCain ordered Kramer to get a personal briefing from Steele in Surrey, just outside of London, and then return to Washington, D.C., where Fusion GPS would provide McCain with hard copies.
In January, McCain officially gave the dossier to the FBI, which already had its own copy from Steele.
Of note, listed in the official program for the 2016 November Canadian conference as a participant was Rinat Akhmetshin — the same Russian lobbyist who was at Trump Tower five months earlier in June for a highly scrutinized meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and others.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...er-handoff-mccains-go-between-speaks-out.html
The wife of a senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) demoted last week worked for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS during the 2016 election.
Investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed on Monday that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of Bruce G. Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS — the highly questionable research firm that produced the unverified Trump-Russia dossier, according to an exclusive report by Fox News.
Officials currently do not know if Mrs. Oher was involved in any way in the creation of the dossier, but the report from Fox News’ James Rosen noted that she “has written extensively on Russia-related subjects.”
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid for the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele who was hired by Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS’s connections to members of the U.S. government and to Russians involved in the investigation into unproven collusion allegations between Trump campaign officials and Russians officials has raised more questions about the creation of the unverified dossier, which was the initial basis for the Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative.
In November, a report revealed that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya — who met Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in June 2016 at her request — met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson before and after her meeting with Trump Jr., a meeting that was used to suggest that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/24564/report-demoted-doj-officials-wife-worked-fusion-ryan-saavedra
Investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) confirmed on Monday that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of Bruce G. Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS — the highly questionable research firm that produced the unverified Trump-Russia dossier, according to an exclusive report by Fox News.
Officials currently do not know if Mrs. Oher was involved in any way in the creation of the dossier, but the report from Fox News’ James Rosen noted that she “has written extensively on Russia-related subjects.”
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid for the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele who was hired by Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS’s connections to members of the U.S. government and to Russians involved in the investigation into unproven collusion allegations between Trump campaign officials and Russians officials has raised more questions about the creation of the unverified dossier, which was the initial basis for the Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative.
In November, a report revealed that Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya — who met Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in June 2016 at her request — met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson before and after her meeting with Trump Jr., a meeting that was used to suggest that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/24564/report-demoted-doj-officials-wife-worked-fusion-ryan-saavedra
Grumpy
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IMO, the "circumstantial" evidence showing she applied for a HAM radio license during the initial buildup and release of the dossier is telling. Using a ham radio would definitely defeat electronic eavesdropping. Not to sound sexist but why would a 60 yr old woman want a ham radio license?? The timing of all that is very curious
Hijinx
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The FBI and it's leadership wreaks with corruption.
Which is worse the FBI colluding to interfere with an election or the Russians.
I am not sure.
Which is the enemy of Democracy. A sovereign country wanting special favors from America.
Or the FBI and it's leadership corrupting the election from the inside out.
I am not sure again.
What I am pretty sure of is that the FBI is filled with Obama operatives, Democrat operatives if you will. But to be sure operatives that are in defiance of the FBI mission.
Once the FBI stood as an institution that couldn't be bought.
But it seems the Democrats have made the purchase.
Which is worse the FBI colluding to interfere with an election or the Russians.
I am not sure.
Which is the enemy of Democracy. A sovereign country wanting special favors from America.
Or the FBI and it's leadership corrupting the election from the inside out.
I am not sure again.
What I am pretty sure of is that the FBI is filled with Obama operatives, Democrat operatives if you will. But to be sure operatives that are in defiance of the FBI mission.
Once the FBI stood as an institution that couldn't be bought.
But it seems the Democrats have made the purchase.
Washington Post Profile Of Fusion GPS Downplays Firm’s Shady Russian Connections
Did the Washington Post omit significant information about the people behind both the Russian dossier and the Clinton campaign's opposition research?
The Post lets on that it’s not pulling any punches. Fusion GPS, the paper acknowledges, “has at times used hardball tactics.” They paid ex-journalists who may have misrepresented themselves as journalists. Simpson’s firm dissuaded some former Journal colleagues from writing a tough piece about their clients.One local politician targeted by Fusion GPS says they were all about “dirty politics and misinformation.” After all, these purveyors of “journalism for rent,” as Simpson brands his work, never said they weren’t interested in making money. Journalism is the new Wild West and the Post concludes that these guns for hire are among the best there is. “The Post’s review,” claims the Post, “represents the most comprehensive look at the firm’s work.”
Hardly. It makes no mention of some of the outfit’s more notorious, and widely reported, projects—work that shows a very different side to the charming, albeit hard-charging, rogues profiled in the Post. Fusion GPS spearheaded the campaign to undo the Magnitsky Act, American legislation imposing sanctions on Russian officials and other figures close to Vladimir Putin. Their work featured a smear campaign against the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, financier William Browder.
“I am surprised that the profile of Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson failed to mention my allegations that Simpson violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act rules, which I testified about at the senate Judiciary Committee in July,” Browder told me. “Nor did it mention his work for Natalia Veselnitskya trying to repeal the Magnitsky Act.”
Maybe the Post thought that those details would have been too difficult for its readers to square. You mean, Fusion GPS did pro-Kremlin work? What about its storied reputation for having exposed Trump’s ties to Russia? And what about Natalia Veselnitskaya? Isn’t she the Russian lawyer whose meeting with Donald Trump Jr. is the smoking gun proving that the Trump campaign was masterminded in Moscow? So now you’re telling me that Veselniytskaya and the Fusion GPS team were on the same side, trying to undermine the US sanctions that the dossier said Trump was going to relieve? Gee, maybe I have to rethink Russiagate… The fear of that happening is one reason the Post omitted significant facts.
“It’s as if Fusion GPS gave the Washington Post a dossier on the hard-working and wholesome researchers working at Fusion GPS,” says Thor Halvorssen, a human rights activist who was targeted by a Fusion GPS smear campaign on behalf of corrupt Venezuelan businessmen. “The Post ignored some of Fusion GPS’s worst excesses, including the scorched earth tactics they used against a journalist in London who was whistleblowing corruption in Venezuela, Alek Boyd. Fusion GPS planted stories that he was a rapist and pedophile.”
Did the Washington Post omit significant information about the people behind both the Russian dossier and the Clinton campaign's opposition research?
The Post lets on that it’s not pulling any punches. Fusion GPS, the paper acknowledges, “has at times used hardball tactics.” They paid ex-journalists who may have misrepresented themselves as journalists. Simpson’s firm dissuaded some former Journal colleagues from writing a tough piece about their clients.One local politician targeted by Fusion GPS says they were all about “dirty politics and misinformation.” After all, these purveyors of “journalism for rent,” as Simpson brands his work, never said they weren’t interested in making money. Journalism is the new Wild West and the Post concludes that these guns for hire are among the best there is. “The Post’s review,” claims the Post, “represents the most comprehensive look at the firm’s work.”
Hardly. It makes no mention of some of the outfit’s more notorious, and widely reported, projects—work that shows a very different side to the charming, albeit hard-charging, rogues profiled in the Post. Fusion GPS spearheaded the campaign to undo the Magnitsky Act, American legislation imposing sanctions on Russian officials and other figures close to Vladimir Putin. Their work featured a smear campaign against the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, financier William Browder.
“I am surprised that the profile of Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson failed to mention my allegations that Simpson violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act rules, which I testified about at the senate Judiciary Committee in July,” Browder told me. “Nor did it mention his work for Natalia Veselnitskya trying to repeal the Magnitsky Act.”
Maybe the Post thought that those details would have been too difficult for its readers to square. You mean, Fusion GPS did pro-Kremlin work? What about its storied reputation for having exposed Trump’s ties to Russia? And what about Natalia Veselnitskaya? Isn’t she the Russian lawyer whose meeting with Donald Trump Jr. is the smoking gun proving that the Trump campaign was masterminded in Moscow? So now you’re telling me that Veselniytskaya and the Fusion GPS team were on the same side, trying to undermine the US sanctions that the dossier said Trump was going to relieve? Gee, maybe I have to rethink Russiagate… The fear of that happening is one reason the Post omitted significant facts.
“It’s as if Fusion GPS gave the Washington Post a dossier on the hard-working and wholesome researchers working at Fusion GPS,” says Thor Halvorssen, a human rights activist who was targeted by a Fusion GPS smear campaign on behalf of corrupt Venezuelan businessmen. “The Post ignored some of Fusion GPS’s worst excesses, including the scorched earth tactics they used against a journalist in London who was whistleblowing corruption in Venezuela, Alek Boyd. Fusion GPS planted stories that he was a rapist and pedophile.”
FBI 'offered British spy $50,000 to corroborate his claims in the dirty dossier on Trump - which he never did'
Claims have resurfaced that the FBI offered the British spy behind the 'golden showers' dirty dossier $50,000 to corroborate his claims about now-President Donald Trump.
'I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn't, didn't, wouldn't, and they didn't pay him the money,' news analyst Andrew Napolitano told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Monday.
Former MI6 agent Steele's dossier claims the Russians possess compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump, and alleges the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Napolitano appears to be basing his claim on an April report from the New York Times, which cited two sources claiming that an FBI agent met Steele in Rome in October of 2016, just weeks before the presidential election.
The agent offered Steele $50,000 if he could get 'solid corroboration of his reports', which the FBI ultimately never paid out, the report said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-50K-verity-Trump-dossier.html#ixzz51hpbkFFk
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- Claims that FBI offered ex-MI6 spy cash for Trump dirt have re-emerged
- Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein refused to answer when asked in inquiry last week
- Republicans accuse disgraced agent Peter Strzok of using dossier for wiretap
- Strzok texts mention an 'insurance policy' in the event of Trump's election
- Questions over FBI integrity are mounting as Mueller election probe nears end
Claims have resurfaced that the FBI offered the British spy behind the 'golden showers' dirty dossier $50,000 to corroborate his claims about now-President Donald Trump.
'I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn't, didn't, wouldn't, and they didn't pay him the money,' news analyst Andrew Napolitano told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Monday.
Former MI6 agent Steele's dossier claims the Russians possess compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump, and alleges the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Napolitano appears to be basing his claim on an April report from the New York Times, which cited two sources claiming that an FBI agent met Steele in Rome in October of 2016, just weeks before the presidential election.
The agent offered Steele $50,000 if he could get 'solid corroboration of his reports', which the FBI ultimately never paid out, the report said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-50K-verity-Trump-dossier.html#ixzz51hpbkFFk
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“Andy” McCabe’s Transparent Motive For a Lost Dossier Memory….
Those who have been walking the deep weeds have a pretty strong understanding of Deputy FBI Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe’s risk profile and his role in the 2016 “Trump Project”. The Rosen report earlier today -based on investigators within the House Intelligence Committee- states McCabe has lost his memory around the timeline for the FBI’s FISA application and the Christoper Steele Russian Dossier as evidence therein.
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♦It is increasingly clear the entire purpose of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe was not to investigate some nefarious and innocuous Russian election interference; but rather with a Trump victory the same people who weaponized the FBI and DOJ to conduct the “Trump Project” needed to generate a shield or firewall to protect them from sunlight. The Mueller probe is that shield.
Those who are seeking answers to the most critical questions are now running into the officials within the scheme using the Mueller probe as a defensive shield so they do not have to answer questions. This is the primary purpose of the Mueller probe:
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/943554184825143297[/TWITTER]
With hindsight it is now clear why the Democrats, the intelligence operatives, and their media allies were so adamant a Special Counsel probe be initiated. They planned to use Mueller’s investigation as a shield all along.
♦Secondly, the same FBI and DOJ officials, along with career FBI and DOJ lawyers and administrators, who are at risk from exposure within the plot, do not want to answer questions in public hearings. They are using closed sessions under the auspices of everything therein being “classified”. This venue and manner of testimony blocks congressional representatives from talking about the content publicly.
Everything is being structured to avoid public scrutiny. In essence these career co-conspirators are using the familiar DC system to protect themselves from ramifications of their plot reaching the public.
Those who have been walking the deep weeds have a pretty strong understanding of Deputy FBI Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe’s risk profile and his role in the 2016 “Trump Project”. The Rosen report earlier today -based on investigators within the House Intelligence Committee- states McCabe has lost his memory around the timeline for the FBI’s FISA application and the Christoper Steele Russian Dossier as evidence therein.
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♦It is increasingly clear the entire purpose of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe was not to investigate some nefarious and innocuous Russian election interference; but rather with a Trump victory the same people who weaponized the FBI and DOJ to conduct the “Trump Project” needed to generate a shield or firewall to protect them from sunlight. The Mueller probe is that shield.
Those who are seeking answers to the most critical questions are now running into the officials within the scheme using the Mueller probe as a defensive shield so they do not have to answer questions. This is the primary purpose of the Mueller probe:
[TWITTER]https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/943554184825143297[/TWITTER]
With hindsight it is now clear why the Democrats, the intelligence operatives, and their media allies were so adamant a Special Counsel probe be initiated. They planned to use Mueller’s investigation as a shield all along.
♦Secondly, the same FBI and DOJ officials, along with career FBI and DOJ lawyers and administrators, who are at risk from exposure within the plot, do not want to answer questions in public hearings. They are using closed sessions under the auspices of everything therein being “classified”. This venue and manner of testimony blocks congressional representatives from talking about the content publicly.
Everything is being structured to avoid public scrutiny. In essence these career co-conspirators are using the familiar DC system to protect themselves from ramifications of their plot reaching the public.
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REPORT: McCabe Supposedly Contradicts Himself In Testimony; Unable To Cite Examples Of Verified Dossier Allegations
"McCabe claimed he could not recall — despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance."
Key takeaways from James Rosen’s report at Fox News:
Assuming all the information from the Fox News’ report is accurate, this is disastrous for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged and unproven "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Mueller’s investigation has taken several major blows to its credibility, including the revelation that DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr was demoted from his position for hiding his connection to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the anti-Trump dossier. It was later revealed that Ohr’s wife, Nellie H. Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS.
"McCabe claimed he could not recall — despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance."
Key takeaways from James Rosen’s report at Fox News:
- McCabe was supposedly a “friendly witness” to the Democrats that were present in the room.
- The Democrats tried to push McCabe into helping them build a case against President Donald Trump — and were unsuccessful.
- McCabe apparently described how thoroughly the FBI worked to verify the anti-Trump dossier and claimed that it is was credible.
- When pushed for examples of what was verified in the anti-Trump dossier, McCabe was only able to identify the fact that Trump campaign advisor Carter Page traveled to Moscow — McCabe could not even verify anything about the meetings that Page supposedly had.
- “The sources said that when asked when he learned that the dossier had been funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, McCabe claimed he could not recall — despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance.”
Assuming all the information from the Fox News’ report is accurate, this is disastrous for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged and unproven "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Mueller’s investigation has taken several major blows to its credibility, including the revelation that DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr was demoted from his position for hiding his connection to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the anti-Trump dossier. It was later revealed that Ohr’s wife, Nellie H. Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS.
In a seven-hour interview with the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe repeatedly declined to answer whether the bureau has been able to verify the substantive allegations in the dossier, or even to identify a substantive allegation that has been corroborated, according to sources familiar with the questioning.
The dossier portion of the interview began with McCabe being asked if he thought the dossier met the standard of credibility the FBI required to open an investigation. McCabe said he believed it did. He said on more than one occasion that the FBI had worked hard to verify the dossier, telling lawmakers that the FBI had at one point sent investigators to London as part of the effort.
McCabe was asked to point to anything in the dossier that he knew to be true. McCabe noted that the dossier said, accurately, that the unpaid, low-level Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page visited Moscow in July 2016.
McCabe's questioners were not impressed. Page's Moscow trip was reported in the press at the time it happened; the simple fact that he was in Russia was not a revelation. Lawmakers reminded McCabe that Page's presence in Moscow was long established and then asked again: Was there anything more in the dossier that McCabe now knows to be true? McCabe, according to sources, said he did not know how to answer the question.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/b...rump-dossier-they-got-nothing/article/2644225
The dossier portion of the interview began with McCabe being asked if he thought the dossier met the standard of credibility the FBI required to open an investigation. McCabe said he believed it did. He said on more than one occasion that the FBI had worked hard to verify the dossier, telling lawmakers that the FBI had at one point sent investigators to London as part of the effort.
McCabe was asked to point to anything in the dossier that he knew to be true. McCabe noted that the dossier said, accurately, that the unpaid, low-level Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page visited Moscow in July 2016.
McCabe's questioners were not impressed. Page's Moscow trip was reported in the press at the time it happened; the simple fact that he was in Russia was not a revelation. Lawmakers reminded McCabe that Page's presence in Moscow was long established and then asked again: Was there anything more in the dossier that McCabe now knows to be true? McCabe, according to sources, said he did not know how to answer the question.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/b...rump-dossier-they-got-nothing/article/2644225
The outlet’s investigation begins with a June 24, 2017, Facebook post by Mary Jacoby, the wife of Glenn Simpson, the former Wall Street Journal reporter who started Fusion GPS, the firm behind the dossier.
Jacoby, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who once shared bylines with Simpson, bragged how her husband was not getting the credit he deserved for the dossier.
“It’s come to my attention that some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,” she wrote on Facebook. “Let’s be clear. Glenn conducted the investigation. Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for Glenn.”
Until this day, the dossier is often referred to as the “Steele dossier,” named after the former British spy Christopher Steele who is believed to have authored the document.
Steele’s background has been used by collusion-believers to argue that the document is credible. But Jacoby’s post suggests that Steele might not have played as big of a role in the dossier as he is given credit.
Indeed, Fusion GPS hiring of Nellie Ohr — the wife of senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr — also shows that Steele’s role in producing the dossier may be exaggerated. Ohr is a Stanford Ph.D. whose expertise is Russia and she appears to be fluent in Russian. She may have conducted interviews or written parts of the dossier.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...bama-administration-weaponized-trump-dossier/
Jacoby, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who once shared bylines with Simpson, bragged how her husband was not getting the credit he deserved for the dossier.
“It’s come to my attention that some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,” she wrote on Facebook. “Let’s be clear. Glenn conducted the investigation. Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for Glenn.”
Until this day, the dossier is often referred to as the “Steele dossier,” named after the former British spy Christopher Steele who is believed to have authored the document.
Steele’s background has been used by collusion-believers to argue that the document is credible. But Jacoby’s post suggests that Steele might not have played as big of a role in the dossier as he is given credit.
Indeed, Fusion GPS hiring of Nellie Ohr — the wife of senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr — also shows that Steele’s role in producing the dossier may be exaggerated. Ohr is a Stanford Ph.D. whose expertise is Russia and she appears to be fluent in Russian. She may have conducted interviews or written parts of the dossier.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...bama-administration-weaponized-trump-dossier/
Hijinx
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A little hard to understand why anyone would want to claim credit for being involved in this scam.
Embattled FBI admits it can’t verify dossier claims of Russia, Trump campaign collusion
Sources familiar with House and Senate investigations say this is the FBI’s dossier talking point 17 months after agents were first briefed in July 2016 as Donald Trump battled Hillary Clinton for the White House.
The most recent FBI witness was Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who spent nearly eight hours last week in a closed session before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Republicans believe they have unearthed a scandal inside the bureau’s top echelons over its determination to target Trump associates based on flimsy evidence and improper Justice Department contacts.
Republican committee members pressed Mr. McCabe about a dossier that was financed by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign based on gossip-tinged information from paid, unidentified Kremlin operatives.
Mr. McCabe declined to criticize the dossier’s 35 pages of salacious and criminal charges against Donald Trump and his aides, but he said it remains largely unverified, according to a source familiar with ongoing congressional inquiries.
Sources familiar with House and Senate investigations say this is the FBI’s dossier talking point 17 months after agents were first briefed in July 2016 as Donald Trump battled Hillary Clinton for the White House.
The most recent FBI witness was Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who spent nearly eight hours last week in a closed session before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Republicans believe they have unearthed a scandal inside the bureau’s top echelons over its determination to target Trump associates based on flimsy evidence and improper Justice Department contacts.
Republican committee members pressed Mr. McCabe about a dossier that was financed by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign based on gossip-tinged information from paid, unidentified Kremlin operatives.
Mr. McCabe declined to criticize the dossier’s 35 pages of salacious and criminal charges against Donald Trump and his aides, but he said it remains largely unverified, according to a source familiar with ongoing congressional inquiries.
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Fusion GPS' 'Fake Investigation' — And Hillary Clinton's Real Russian Collusion
In their piece, journalists-turned-political investigators Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch made some interesting assertions about Trump and his supposed collusion with the Russians. But once again, they give no proof for what they call their "intelligence reports."
Someone forgot to tell the investigative duo: Intelligence without proof is merely gossip. And that's exactly what they've sold.
But what Simpson and Fritsch did do in their defense of Fusion GPS' actions was to confirm the worst fears about the real collusion that took place among the Democrats, Fusion and the Russians.
In case you don't remember all the twists and turns of the tale, Fusion was hired in the summer of 2016 to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump. It did so by hiring a former top British spy in Russia, Christopher Steele, whose murky Russian government and espionage ties and even-deeper connections to the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies made him the perfect source.
Steele produced 35 pages of salacious allegations against Trump — including that he cavorted with Russian prostitutes in a bed once used by Barack Obama; that he was offered bribes of more than a billion dollars by the Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft to end U.S. trade sanctions on Russia if he won the presidency; and that Trump officials secretly met with Russian officials to collude on "hacking" the Democrats during the 2016 election.
In their piece, journalists-turned-political investigators Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch made some interesting assertions about Trump and his supposed collusion with the Russians. But once again, they give no proof for what they call their "intelligence reports."
Someone forgot to tell the investigative duo: Intelligence without proof is merely gossip. And that's exactly what they've sold.
But what Simpson and Fritsch did do in their defense of Fusion GPS' actions was to confirm the worst fears about the real collusion that took place among the Democrats, Fusion and the Russians.
In case you don't remember all the twists and turns of the tale, Fusion was hired in the summer of 2016 to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump. It did so by hiring a former top British spy in Russia, Christopher Steele, whose murky Russian government and espionage ties and even-deeper connections to the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies made him the perfect source.
Steele produced 35 pages of salacious allegations against Trump — including that he cavorted with Russian prostitutes in a bed once used by Barack Obama; that he was offered bribes of more than a billion dollars by the Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft to end U.S. trade sanctions on Russia if he won the presidency; and that Trump officials secretly met with Russian officials to collude on "hacking" the Democrats during the 2016 election.