Kimberley Strassel: The Fusion GPS dossier was one of the dirtiest political tricks in US history

FOX News ^ | November 10, 2017 | by Kimberley Strassel

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Steele dossier has already become a thing of John le Carré-like intrigue—British spies, Kremlin agents, legal cutouts, hidden bank accounts. What all this obscures is the more immediate point: The dossier amounts to one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history. It was perpetrated by Team Clinton and yielded a vast payoff for Hillary’s campaign.

“Details from the dossier were not reported before Election Day,” ran a recent CNN story. Hillary Clinton herself stressed the point in a recent “Daily Show” appearance.

This is utterly untrue. In British court documents Mr. Steele has acknowledged he briefed U.S. reporters about the dossier in September 2016. Those briefed included journalists from the New York Times , the Washington Post, Yahoo News and others. Mr. Steele, by his own admission (in an interview with Mother Jones), also gave his dossier in July 2016 to the FBI.

[BetJay]

It is NOT a trick; it is a conspiracy to deprive throw an election for the most powerful position in the world. Using the work ‘trick’ minimizes the destructiveness of these acts.

[Kevin in California]

A political crime is more like it.

[upchuck]

Brief excerpt:

“Details from the dossier were not reported before Election Day,” ran a recent CNN story. Hillary Clinton herself stressed the point in a recent “Daily Show” appearance. The dossier, she said, is “part of what happens in a campaign where you get information that may or may not be useful and you try to make sure anything you put out in the public arena is accurate. So this thing didn’t come out until after the election, and it’s still being evaluated.”

As Ms. Strassel points out, there's not a bit of truth to CNN's claim or what Killary said. Buncha BS. This is such old news....

[hillarys cankles]

More proof that this is no longer a nation of laws.

Ill be damned if only the elite will be able to prosper from our lack of law enforcement. If they think many of us out here are going to be the schmucks who abide by our laws just because they say we should, well, they are sadly mistaken.

Keep it up shitheads......... the S will eventually hit the fan and when it does, there will be hell to pay. Some of us out here are keeping a scorecard and we will be out for retribution for what you have done to our constitution and country.

[laconic]

Where on Earth is AG Sessions?

[2harddrive]

As a Jewess on the US, I can only point out that the number of women who allegedly DATED, but had no sex with, Roy Moore is EXACTLY the same number who accused President Clinton of FORCIBLE RAPE, a FAR more serious offense. Now we know why all REAL Americans put our 2nd Amendment FIRST. Just sayin’!

[Lopeover]

The Obama Legacy....

[eyeamok]

Where on Earth is AG Sessions?

I saw him in the Alley earlier going after a guy selling small amounts of marijuana to some lawyers..

[ReaganGeneration2]

The Uranium One and 30,000 email/server activities make the dirty-ness exponentially worse.

[MtnClimber]

The big question is whether this fake document was presented to a FISA court to get a wiretap order against Trump and his campaign associates.

[justa-hairyape]

Crooked Hillary just doing what she loves to do. Lie, cheat and steal. The Uniparty is now using similar tricks on Judge Moore. That is why we call the Uniparty the Stupid Party.

[precisionshootist]

I hope the President knows these criminals must be held to account. Hillary Clinton and the criminals of the last administration must be prosecuted and if convicted spend much time in prison. If she walks America is doomed cause the next would-be tyrants will make sure they don't lose the election.

It's very obvious now how utterly corrupt our government has become. Just think if she had won where we we be in another eight years? Well the President only has seven more years and there will never be another DJT that can win in this environment. The perps MUST BE PROSECUTED !

[odawg]

“The big question is whether this fake document was presented to a FISA court to get a wiretap order against Trump and his campaign associates.”

And that is a question that could be settled in a matter of minutes. Makes one wonder why it hasn’t been answered.

[Chewbarkah]

“The big question is whether this fake document was presented to a FISA court to get a wiretap order against Trump and his campaign associates.”

May we add the question of whether the FBI leadership KNEW Hillary/DNC paid Fusion GPS to create the dossier? Seems likely that the FBI was in on the whole plot and advised on how to set up the cut-outs.

I have suspected for a long time that Bill Clinton’s tarmac meeting with Lynch was more about the dossier and dirty tricks campaign than merely about obstructing justice over Hillary’s email crimes.

[Noob1999]

I’d love to find out where the $ millions to fund this sleaze came from. Of course Hillary laundered the payment thru a lawyer to cover it up, lawyer/client privilege Doncha know. Bet she skimmed it off the top of the Clinton crime foundation.

[upchuck]

Where on Earth is AG Sessions?

A guess:

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