Posted on 04/26/2019 3:18:13 PM PDT by Starman417
As Bob Woodward stated, the Steele dossier is full of garbage.
It demands an investigation and that may be well underway.“What I found out recently, which was really quite surprising, the dossier, which really has got a lot of garbage in it and Mueller found that to be the case, early in building the intelligence-community assessment on Russian interference, in an early draft, they actually put the dossier on page two in kind of a breakout box,” Woodward said.
“I think it was the CIA pushing this. Real intelligence experts looked at this and said ‘No, this is not intelligence, this is garbage,’ and they took it out,” he continued. “But in this process, the idea that they would include something like that in one of the great stellar intelligence assessments, as Mueller also found out, is highly questionable. Needs to be investigated.”
Congressional Republicans have long demanded answers from the Department of Justice regarding how heavily the CIA and FBI relied on the Steele dossier when deciding to launch a counter-intelligence investigation into Russian interference in the election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. Those lawmakers, led by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are now focused on determining to what degree information from the dossier was used to justify the FBI’s application for a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump national-security adviser Carter Page.
The Mueller Report destroyed a number of alleged scandals:
1) The Mysterious Change to the 2016 Republican Party Platform Concerning UkraineThe author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, is known to hate Donald Trump.2) The Russian Ambassador’s Trump Contacts
3) Jeff Sessions’s Russian Contacts
4) Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen’s Trip to Prague
5) Cohen’s Lies to Congress About Trump Tower
6) Michael Flynn’s Sanctions Talk With Russia
Christopher Steele hadn't been to Russia in years. He did not make personal contact with the sources who fed him the lurid information. Steele used a fake news site for some of his information. He used his "network" to gather intel, depending heavily on the Russians.
This individual proved to be a treasure trove of information. “Speaking in confidence to a compatriot,” the talkative Source E “admitted there was a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between them [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership.” Then this: “The Russian regime had been behind the recent leak of embarrassing e-mail messages, emanating from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to the WikiLeaks platform.” And finally: “In return the Trump team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue and to raise US/NATO defense commitments in the Baltic and Eastern Europe to deflect attention away from Ukraine.”It's garbage. A few irrelevant nuggets were tossed in to give it legitimacy but it remains garbage.Then there was Source D, “a close associate of Trump who had organized and managed his recent trips to Moscow,” and Source F, “a female staffer” at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton hotel, who was co-opted into the network by an Orbis “ethnic Russian operative” working hand in hand with the loquacious Trump insider, Source E.
These two sources told quite a lurid story, the now infamous “golden showers” allegation, which, according to the dossier, was corroborated by others in his alphabet list of assets. It was an evening’s entertainment, Steele, the old Russian hand, must have suspected, that had to have been produced by the ever helpful F.S.B. And since it was typical of Moscow Center’s handwriting to have the suite wired up for sound and video (the hotel’s Web site, with unintentional irony, boasts of its “cutting edge technological amenities”), Steele apparently began to suspect that locked in a Kremlin safe was a hell of a video, as well as photographs.
The dossier is a piece of Russian propaganda. It was a disinformation campaign:
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
That’s one long run-on sentence, Journalist Bob.
Woodward and Bernstein used questionable reporting tactics about Watergate....their brand of journalism wasn’t all lily white....they helped remove a President from office....cheering on the same bullying and lies to help remove another President from office. Rest assure their past will catch up with them.....
“The question no democrat will touch”
what was the question?
The Romans used decimation to great effect when legions went rogue. A similar concept, perhaps without the killing, could nonetheless be used on the CIA and FBI bureaucracies.
Of course, we all know - nothing will happen to anyone. The Deep State is beyond reach.
With that confession, Woodward acknowledges that he is a very stupid man.
Everyone of average to high intelligence has known that it is nothing but garbage, fiction, and a hoax since it was first made public.
They made us wait until the end of the story for this, embedded in a graphic:
"If Russia wanted Trump to win why did they feed dirt on him to Steele?"
At least they didn't call it a "Blockbuster!"...
Also, anyone with anything more than a double digit IQ knew that Russia had no reason to want a Trump presidency, but had every reason to support a Hillary presidency. After all, Russia had already bought and paid for her.
I’m an uneducated white deplorable and I figured it out right away.
If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?
I still cannot fathom how anyone would think a capitalist crying out, “Make America great again,” would collude with foreign communists to attain office. The media sure isn’t asking that question.
“why did they feed dirt on him to Steele?”
IDK, maybe because Beto had already eaten.
Woodward is a genius. He just figured out what we have known for 2 1/2 years, and he did it all by himself. Of course it was a CIA operation, can you say John Brennan, Nellie Ohr, or the other FBI wives with CIA connections? I knew you could. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Mueller knew from the beginning. He should be arrested for fraud and the $35 million he charged being returned.
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