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Posted on 11/12/2025 7:56:38 AM PST by Retain Mike
In early January 2017, the Clinton campaign’s “Steele dossier”—a secretly funded collection of made-up stories and gossip alleging that Russia had dirt on Trump and that Trump was colluding with Russia against the United States—was published. The investigations it spurred would bankrupt Trump associates, destroy lives, and hamstring Trump’s ability to govern. It led to draconian censorship campaigns against conservatives. It hurt Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 general election. But no evidence was found that a single American, much less Trump himself, conspired with Russia.
One document Ratcliffe released is a “tradecraft review” of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). Conducted by career officials at the CIA, the review found that the dishonest leaks by the Obama administration in December 2016 created an “anchoring bias” that polluted the entire document. The review also expressed concern about the ICA’s frantic production timeline; the refusal to allow analysts reviewing the document to see the intelligence its conclusions were based on; and the over-involvement of Comey, Brennan, and Clapper.
The documents released by Ratcliffe and Gabbard show that career officers were pleading with their bosses not to assert, falsely, that Russia preferred Trump and not to include the Steele dossier in any way, shape, or form. One wrote: “Based solely on what we DO know now, my bottom line is this—unless FBI is prepared to provide much better sourcing—I believe this should NOT be included in the paper.” Noting that the document had not been formally issued as an FBI product, this same official characterized it as suffering from “POOR SOURCE TRADECRAFT,” as having “extremely sketchy” sourcing, and as failing to “meet normal [intelligence community] standards.”
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It was either Mark Twain or Winston Churchill who said, "A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on". Well, this one went around the world several time to be well imbedded in history. She seems to provide a good summary to retain in opposition.
There is no significance unless we see high profile people go to jail over this.
Last time, they sentenced some guy named Kevin (that no one ever heard of) and he was sentenced to go to bed without cookies or something.
Nothing ever happens to these people!
Thanks for reposting.......Mollie is terrific
The tyrannical, fascist RATS are still at it with their new “documents” proving Trump spent all his spare time with Epstein. And they want us to believe their far-left, phony “documents” that were mysteriously found with a pile of Rose Law Firm documents and FBI files are real. Weird how the “media” can always convince the ignorant among us how documents created by the communists and pedaled by their retarded college idiots are real.
The 3 reasons for this BS abuse of government.
Don’t worry, they’ll use an off the shelf AI program that’s proven itself by writing legal briefs for incompetent attorneys who just managed to pass the bar to create fake videos of Trump and Epstein having anal sex.
Bkmk
Certainly sedition
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Elections have consequences. The immensely powerful American tech and internet leaders and their companies are now behind President Trump.
Trump Hosts Tech Leaders at White House Dinner
So now, we can say BOTH the truth and the lies can reach all civilized corners of the world in milli-seconds via the undersea cables that circle globe and carry 99% of the world's internet traffic.
The saying is a modern adaptation of a much older idea, and while it’s often misattributed to people like Mark Twain or Winston Churchill, its origin is unknown.
The earliest known version of the phrase dates to an 1820 adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s 1710 writing about “falsehood flies”.
The sentiment traces back to the 18th century, with Jonathan Swift writing, “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it”.
The quote has evolved over time through various adaptations. One notable version was recorded by the preacher Charles Spurgeon in 1858, who wrote, “A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on”.
The modern version is frequently attributed to Mark Twain or Winston Churchill, but there is no evidence they were the original source. This tendency to attribute the quote to well-known figures is often called “Churchillian drift”.
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