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Second Trump-Russia dossier being assessed by FBI (written by Clinton hack Cody Shearer)
The Guardian ^ | Jan 30, 2018

Posted on 01/30/2018 8:32:21 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist

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To: Tea Party Terrorist

This has almost as much credibility as if Louise Mensch had written a memo.


41 posted on 01/30/2018 9:29:19 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

These rats are really going to piss trump off. Hillary is in this up to her eyeballs. If trump had plans of going easy on her, she can forget it now. Her fingerprints are all over this corruption. Trump should blow it all wide open and let the chips fall where they may. They’re not going to back down so he should hit em with everything he’s got.


42 posted on 01/30/2018 9:36:39 AM PST by jersey117
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To: stylin19a
"a bogus document gets corroborated by another bogus document that contains the same information as the first bogus document?"

Dan RaTHer is envious

...or complicit.
43 posted on 01/30/2018 9:43:12 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: jersey117
Trump should blow it all wide open and let the chips fall where they may.

At first, I was willing to see where the deep state would mark it's "redline", but obviously, they are willing to go to the mat on ANYTHING that remotely looks anti-Trump. I was hoping, beyond hope, that their sense of duty to the protection of the United States would make them finally give up their ghosts or at least stop the swamp games.

Now, it looks like they do not intend to be honest or forthright! With that in mind, I say let it burn to the d@mn ground! The HONEST TRUTH about what the United States Government did to internal political opponents is MORE IMPORTANT than the preservation of even the United States Government, itself!

Because, if the US Government (aka Obama Administration) used the FBI as a front to spy on it's political opponents then it is NOT WORTH SAVING! We should not allow a Banana Republic mindset to continue, just because the current Swamp Creatures keep saying that it's "important to national safety"! EFF THAT and ALL THIS B.S.!!!
44 posted on 01/30/2018 9:49:17 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

The FBI probably said it had two independent dossiers...knowing full well they were just copies and neither one was worth a plugged nickel.

Probably went to the FISA judge with that line...


45 posted on 01/30/2018 9:51:56 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Here’s an article discussing Shearer, Blumenthal, and Clinton as well

http://www.nationalreview.com

(Ps what’s up with Alamo Girl’s list of Freepers and their profile/job info?)


46 posted on 01/30/2018 10:03:09 AM PST by HollyB
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To: UCANSEE2

“The FBI showed it to Trump and said, “This is the kind of report that COULD be used against you. “

When was that said?


47 posted on 01/30/2018 10:04:49 AM PST by HollyB
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To: HollyB
Ps what’s up with Alamo Girl’s list of Freepers and their profile/job info?

I've never noticed that.

48 posted on 01/30/2018 10:08:39 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (My aim is true)
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To: HollyB

Link to article: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419131/meet-cody-shearer-strangest-character-hillarys-vast-left-wing-conspiracy-brendan

Meet Cody Shearer, the Strangest Character in Hillary’s Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy


49 posted on 01/30/2018 10:10:05 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (My aim is true)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist
Ok, so I'm finally clear on what this nonsense is about.

It appears that this second dossier, also a product of the Clinton smear machine, was used by Steele to convince the FBI of the reliability of HIS Clinton-financed smear dossier because, surprise, it had many of the same smears in it!

This is what Grassley was on to in his letters to Clinton cronies the other day.

It appears that FBI coordination with the Clinton campaign was more extensive than first supposed. The Guardian, instead of hyperventilating, should be running for cover, because this story doesn't mean what they think it means.

50 posted on 01/30/2018 10:13:13 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: HollyB; Jim Robinson

Did you ever see Alamo Girl’s list of freepers and info she has posted?

There is a link that says ‘click here for FR profiles’. Click on that. Not sure how current it is, but... It’s a bit strange, to say it mildly. Just wanted to give you a heads up since her site is listed here with FR.

http://www.alamo-girl.com/profiles.htm


51 posted on 01/30/2018 10:27:21 AM PST by HollyB
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To: janetjanet998

“It was handed to them by Steele – who had been given it by an American contact”

The article does not say who this supposed American contact was but it had to be a Clinton operative possibly through a Fusion GPS intermediary.


52 posted on 01/30/2018 10:27:49 AM PST by detective
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Maybe it corroborated because both dossiers came from the same sources, ie Democrat-Russians colluding to take down areump!

Doh! FBI!


53 posted on 01/30/2018 10:34:52 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Tea Party Terrorist.

54 posted on 01/30/2018 10:53:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Ann Archy; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa
I'm glad you mentioned the Shearer/Talbott connection--reminds me of this:

Road to Moscow: Bill Clinton’s Early Activism from Fulbright to Moscow

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Late 1969: Clinton’s Roommates, the KGB, and the Road to Moscow

That December McSorley would again encounter Clinton in Oslo, Norway. Clinton, who had recently spent Thanksgiving vacation in Ireland with his fellow Moratorium protestor Tom Williamson, was now on his way to the Soviet Union, following in the footsteps of his new roommate Strobe Talbott.

Talbott was a Russian affairs scholar and intern journalist for TIME. He had begun visiting Moscow in 1968 and had developed contacts in the USSR. In summer 1969 he was in Moscow acting as a replacement for vacationing TIME Moscow bureau chief Jerrold Schecter. At this time he met Victor Louis (Vitali Yevgenyevich Lui), a KGB disinformation agent and talent spotter who specialized in influencing journalists and planting stories in the Western media.

For the past several years, under the control of KGB General Vyacheslav Kevorkov, Louis had been helping the KGB with damage control by acting as a sort of literary agent supervising the leaking of the memoirs of various former Soviet officials and celebrities, including Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, and former Premier Nikita Khrushchev. In 1967, with approval from KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov, Kevorkov and Louis began seeking a publisher for Khrushchev’s memoirs. Louis first approached Jess Gorkin, editor of Parade magazine, which had run an article on an NBC documentary on Khrushchev that Louis had arranged. Parade turned down the project because it seemed too expensive. Parade chief editor Lloyd “Skip” Shearer then suggested Louis approach Talbott, his future son-in-law. Louis approached Talbott through Schecter, whom he met at a party in Moscow in August 1968. In fall 1969, Louis broached the idea of TIME publishing Khrushchev’s memoirs to Schecter. Schecter secured approval from TIME-LIFE New York news service chief of correspondents Murray Gart, then contacted Talbott to offer him the job of translating Khrushchev’s memoirs. Talbott agreed on the condition that he could enlist the help of a Russian friend from Oxford, Yasha Zaguskin, a White Russian emigre who roomed with Boris Pasternak’s sister Lydia.

Talbott then began working on the project with Louis, launching a relationship that would last until 1992. However, it was not until 1999 that Schecter met Keyorkov at a CIA conference and learned that Louis had kept the KGB informed of the Khrushchev project the whole time.

In late 1969, after staying with Richard Stearns for a couple weeks in October, Clinton began rooming with Talbott and their friend Frank Aller. Aller, a draft dodger and China scholar, was doing academic work similar to Talbott’s, making trips to Switzerland to receive the unpublished notes of Edgar Snow, an academic advocate of the Chinese Communists who was linked to the old Institute of Pacific Relations network. (In 1971 the Chinese government would use Snow to mediate an invitation to Owen Lattimore, making sure there would be no Soviet objections if Lattimore visited China.) Clinton’s autobiography recalls how he often made Talbott and Aller breakfast while they were doing their work:

After more orthodox conservative forces removed him from power and installed Brezhnev and Kosygin, Khrushchev secretly recorded his memoirs on tape, and arranged, I think through friends in the KGB, to get them to Jerry Schecter, then Time magazine’s bureau chief in Moscow. Strobe was fluent in Russian and had worked for Time in Moscow the previous summer. He flew to Copenhagen to meet Schecter and get the tapes. When he got back to Oxford, he began the laborious process of typing Khrushchev’s words out in Russian, then translating and editing them. On many mornings, I would make breakfast for Frank and Strobe as they began their work.

Schecter similarly recalled meeting Clinton shortly after Talbott got the Khrushchev assignment:

Before leaving London, I also spent a day with Strobe at Oxford and met his long-haired, amiable housemate, Bill Clinton, who prepared omlets for our breakfast. I never asked Strobe how he told Bill about his new assignment.

Talbott was again in Moscow about the same time Clinton was there in 1970, though he insisted he did not travel there with Clinton, a Boston Herald article by Wayne Woodlief and Joe Battenfeld mentions. A dozen other Rhodes Scholars also followed up Talbott’s visit to Moscow by going there in 1969-1970, Maraniss’ article notes.

After Khrushchev’s memoirs were published, Khrushchev issued a nuanced denial of their authenticity, Soviet news agencies claimed Talbott was “a young sapling of the CIA”, and the Soviets refused to allow Talbott back in the country. Western Soviet expert Victor Zorza speculated that both the KGB and the CIA’s disinformation departments may have played tug-of-war over the memoirs.

When Clinton later nominated Talbott for Deputy Secretary of State, Talbott was questioned about his relationship with Louis. He initially claimed he met Louis in the 1970s, then under cross-examination he remembered that he had actually first met Louis in 1969.

(Talbott’s brother-in-law Derek Shearer later developed numerous Communist and IPS front associations and became one of Clinton’s closest advisors. Other Shearer family members also became part of the extended Clinton clan.)

55 posted on 01/30/2018 1:12:37 PM PST by Fedora
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To: mojito

Yes, it’s a gift.


56 posted on 01/30/2018 2:35:42 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (A bad peace is better than a good war.)
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