Posted on 08/20/2019 7:14:47 AM PDT by bitt
To date the investigation into the Fusion GPS-manufactured collusion scandal has focused largely on the firm itself, its allies in the press, as well as contacts in the Department of Justice and FBI. However, if a sitting president used the instruments of state, including the intelligence community, to disseminate and legitimize a piece of paid opposition research in order to first obtain warrants to spy on the other party’s campaign, and then to de-legitimize the results of an election once the other party’s candidate won, we’re looking at a scandal that dwarfs Watergate—a story not about a bad man in the White House, but about the subversion of key security institutions that are charged with protecting core elements of our democratic process while operating largely in the shadows.
A Tablet investigation using public sources to trace the evolution of the now-famous dossier suggests that central elements of the Russiagate scandal emerged not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government—which are unlikely to exist separate from Russian government control—but from a series of stories that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote for The Wall Street Journal well before Fusion GPS existed, and Donald Trump was simply another loud-mouthed Manhattan real estate millionaire. Understanding the origins of the “Steele dossier” is especially important because of what it tells us about the nature and the workings of what its supporters would hopefully describe as an ongoing campaign to remove the elected president of the United States. Yet the involvement of sitting intelligence officials—and a sitting president—in such a campaign should be a frightening thought even to people who despise Trump and oppose every single one of his policies, especially in an age where the possibilities for such abuses have been multiplied by the
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I am grateful to McConnell for his stellar work in the Judiciary Committee.
Why should McConnell get a gold star for simply doing the basics of the job he was elected to do? Given the uneven history of “GOP” judges (Souter, Kennedy, etc.) I certainly won’t count my MAGA chickens on these GOP Senate vetted judges, either.
Should I be grateful for McConnell and the GOP Senate sinking President Trump’s MAGA Fed Picks and his recent DNI pick? Of course not.
Thanks rlmorel
You are most welcome. I try to present this info to my fellow Freepers in a way that can tie it together, because the media certainly won’t!
You do a good job with that rlmorel.
He didn’t know anything about it until he saw it on the news...
Sheeeyit. As if you’re ever going to get him to admit it.
Thanks for saying so, GOPJ!
thanks for posting. great article.
Writing it down helps me to remember it too...:)
When Hannigan, the head of GHCQ in the UK abruptly resigned in January 2017...a lot of heads turned on that.
Nobody anywhere in the world saw it coming, and a lot of people were asking why. Where there is smoke, there is fire, I say.
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