Wonderfully loving article about his love for his mother by Anderson Cooper
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7150271/BREAKING-NEW-Gloria-Vanderbilt-dies-age-95.html
Anderson Cooper announces that his mother Gloria Vanderbilt - scion of the ‘gilded age’ family - has died at the age of 95 from stomach cancer, as he shares touching video of her laughing in her hospital bed
Sorry. ABOUT Anderson Cooper’s love, not by him.
Gloria was an icon in her own right, but the expected overdose of mourning and the coverage of her demise will be more about propping up CNN and Anderson Cooper, all flogging for a little boost in the ratings, ad nauseum. They certainly need it, by news accounts.
Who Were the Mueller Report’s Hired Guns?
By Paul Sperry
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The arrangement has led congressional investigators, government watchdog groups and others to speculate that the private investigators and researchers who worked for the special counsels office might have included Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the private research firm that hired Steele to produce the Russia collusion dossier for the Clinton campaign.
They suspect the dossier creators may have been involved in Muellers operation and even had a hand in his final report because the special counsel sent his team to London to meet with Steele within a few months of taking over the Russia collusion investigation in 2017. Also, Muellers lead prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, had shared information he received from Fusion with the media.
Raising additional suspicions, Muellers report recycles the general allegations leveled in the dossier. And taking a page from earlier surveillance-warrant applications in the Russia investigation, it cites as supporting evidence several articles including one by Yahoo! News that used Steele and Fusion as sources.
Mueller even kept alive one of the dossiers most obscene accusations that Moscow had “compromising tapes” of Trump with Russian hookers by slipping into a footnote an October 2016 text Trump lawyer Michael Cohen received from a “Russian businessman,” who cryptically intimated, Stopped flow of tapes from Russia. Lawyers for the businessman, Giorgi Rtskhiladze (who is actually a Georgian-American), are demanding a retraction of the footnote, arguing Mueller omitted the part of his text where he said he did not believe the rumor about the tapes, for which no evidence has ever surfaced.
Muellers reliance on the Steele dossier is raising questions because it occurred long after FBI Director James B. Comey described the dossier as salacious and unverified.