FBI, warned early and often that Manafort file might be fake, used it anyway
EXCERPT
When the final chapter of the Russia collusion caper is written, it is likely two seminal documents the FBI used to justify investigating Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign will turn out to be bunk.
And the behavior of FBI agents and federal prosecutors who promoted that faulty evidence may disturb us more than we now know.
The first, the Christopher Steele dossier, has received enormous attention. And the more scrutiny it receives, the more its truthfulness wanes. Its credibility has declined so much that many now openly question how the FBI used it to support a surveillance warrant against the Trump campaign in October 2016.
At its best, the Steele dossier is an “unverified and salacious” political research memo funded by Trump’s Democratic rivals. At worst, it may be Russian disinformation worthy of the “garbage” label given it by esteemed reporter Bob Woodward.
The second document, known as the “black cash ledger,” remarkably has escaped the same scrutiny, even though its emergence in Ukraine in the summer of 2016 forced Paul Manafort to resign as Trump’s campaign chairman and eventually face U.S. indictment.
In search warrant affidavits, the FBI portrayed the ledger as one reason it resurrected a criminal case against Manafort that was dropped in 2014 and needed search warrants in 2017 for bank records to prove he worked for the Russian-backed Party of Regions in Ukraine.
There’s just one problem: The FBI’s public reliance on the ledger came months after the feds were warned repeatedly that the document couldn’t be trusted and likely was a fake, according to documents and more than a dozen interviews with knowledgeable sources.
Imho, this period is for dismantling myths, exposing true stories on DS and breaking in the public for the precarious degree of Corruption that continues to threaten America and the array of Leftist notables behind it.
Could it be possible that our side is even working toward first getting Flynn and Manafort freed from the DS clutches, before bringing the Hammer down on the clutchers?
Realistically, it would be foolish to reach too high, and wide, for the likes of Obama, Brennan, Clinton, etc., before Trump is re-elected, when he will be extraordinarily and fully empowered to rain down Hell on the treasonist DS, their seditious handlers and their groveling media enablers?
Prematurely striking now, before Re-Election, does not guarantee making any charge stick, against anyone. Afterwards, however, should be a political and legal cake walk.
I do hope the justified mindset of George Patton rules the course of events, for Trump and the entire EXECUTIVE Branch.
DC is still a seditious Swamp.