Posted on 01/12/2017 10:45:47 AM PST by ColdOne
While BuzzFeed weathers criticism for publishing a document cache containing unsubstantiated and scandalous allegations about President-elect Donald Trump and his confidantes, they also could face legal consequences.
The organization elected to publish a 35-page dossier claiming Russian operatives had compromising personal and financial information about the president-elect and others in his orbit. The documents were compiled by a former British intelligence officer working for a private intelligence firm in London at the behest of Trump’s political opponents. They were later shared with Democratic political operatives and members of Congress.
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Maybe, but he makes up for it with his murderous temper and over-the-top megalomania.
Sic Thiel on them.
Buzzfeed could meet the fate of Gawker ...
“Hulk Hogan was financed by Peter Thiel, who supports Trump”
Thank you, I did not know that. Even better!
“FWIW, he says there is a clear “cause for action” in this case, and that the publisher of BuzzFeed “published his own career suicide note” by going with this story.”
I thought the comments from the Buzzfeed publisher was an admission that he was committing “reckless disregard for the truth”, which I understand has been one of the libel/slander standards regarding public figures.
Any FR legal types want to weigh in on this?
“They were later shared with Democratic political operatives”
IOW McCain
Remember those 20 women who claim he groped them?
He threatened to sue...and poof, they’re gone.
If Trump sued and won, it would most likely stem further accusations and further character assisination. At this point, I want the press to fear Trump. It’s the only way for him to get fair and honest coverage.
Donald will seek a wise balance. It’s an American tradition to talk dirt about politicians. That’s a given. But it’s another tradition, recently fallen into disuse but due for a revival, to rebuke those who talk such dirt for gratuitous reasons.
“Ah, Donald Trump is an idiot!” That can mean different things in different contexts. If it’s about using the wrong salad fork last night, that’s one thing. Laugh it off. But if it’s on the level of trying to disrupt perhaps the most difficult political balancing act attempted on earth to date... it deserves a far more acerbic answer.
Who leaked Donald Trump’s IRS filings?
Yes, that is exactly the case. Lionel quotes Ben Smith's words in the video, and says he totally crossed the line.
That's what he meant when he said Smith "wrote his career suicide note."
Whether a local jury (BuzzFeed's headquarters is in NYC) could be found that would give Trump a fair trial is another matter. Because of that factor, DJT might elect to let this one slide, and go after BuzzFeed and its corporate patron NBC/Comcast in other ways. Of which he has many.
Ultimately the question before us, is should the pushback come from heaven or from hell.
God would prefer that we be willing enough to perceive, that it can come from heaven. But if we are willingly dull, then God will let it come from hell. Better that we learn by experience to hate the devil, than stray forever from God.
Ironically, in 2017 Buzzfeed played the roll of the fringe outlet, and then CNN played the role of the legitimizer.
-PJ
Buzz feed. Soon to be Road Kill. Lol!
They wuz trollt.
And anyhow... the pushback from heaven is found in the form of blessings that will shame the curses, if the ones who fielded the curses are in such a position as to finally perceive it. And this needs God’s spiritual and eternal X-ray vision to happen infallibly. As humans we can have a rough idea of what God can perceive, based on the bible accounts. But we have to go into metaphors to understand. We could not literally grasp the actual thing, not now. “Eyes have not seen the glories He has prepared.” But if we smell a blessing coming down the road, I would suggest a first approach is to let it happen, not nullify it. God may be preparing to swallow up a heaping helping of death in victory, and we would not want to spoil that.
“He (Lionel) also pointed out that the “editor in chief” of BuzzFeed, a man named Ben Smith, has repeatedly admitted his culpability in public statements made since they broke the “story,” something that no journalist with any sense would ever do.”
Yep, a big obstacle in libel cases is proving that the person knowingly published false information, but Smith already has stipulated that publicly.
British Intelligence Trips Over Its Own Lies
The role of British intelligence in running the fraudulent campaign to
paint Donald Trump as a dangerous agent of Russia and Vladimir Putin,
who are supposedly subverting American freedom and democracy, has taken
the proverbial “one step too far.” Remember Army chief counsel Joseph
Welch, in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, towards the end of the
Truman/McCarthy anti-communist witch hunts? When McCarthy went after a
young lawyer in Welch’s law firm as a communist for having been in the
Lawyer’s Guild, Welch replied: “Now, Sir, you have gone to far. Have you
no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of
decency?” That exchange essentially finished off that portion of the
filthy British operation to tear apart the Franklin Roosevelt legacy in
America — although other British operations continued in other forms to
this day.
Yesterday, Donald Trump confronted our era’s “Joseph McCarthys,” in
the US press core, and within US intelligence, while it was also exposed
that this filthy operation has been run from the beginning by British
intelligence. The release of a 35 page document by the website BuzzFeed
and then promoted by CNN, the night before Trump’s press conference and
10 days before his inauguration, is full of hysterical claims which are
easily provable as manufactured lies. Not only do they claim that Trump
worked hand in hand with Putin to hack the DNC and Podesta’s e-mails,
and spread the hacked e-mails via Wikileaks, but they claim that Trump
was being blackmailed by Putin with video’s of his cavorting with
prostitutes in Russia, and even urinating on a hotel bed that Barack
Obama had slept in.
In his press conference, Trump nailed the treasonous reality of this
operation. If the scurrilous report had been released by the
intelligence agencies, he said, then it “would be a tremendous blot on
their record, if they in fact did that.... I think it was disgraceful —
disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that
turned out to be so false and fake [to come] out. I think it’s a
disgrace, and I say that, that’s something that Nazi Germany would have
done, and did do. I think it’s a disgrace that information that was
false and fake and never happened got released to the public.” When CNN
demanded the right to respond to Trump’s denunciation of their
participation in the scam, Trump cut them off: “Not you. Your
organization is terrible.”
Trump did not, however, identify the source of the lies — the
British intelligence agencies. The material is so clearly fraudulent
that the New York Times, which has been at the center of the campaign to
discredit Trump as a Russian asset, acknowledged that “The decision of
top intelligence officials to give the president, the president-elect
and the so-called Gang of Eight — Republican and Democratic leaders of
Congress and the intelligence committees — what they know to be
unverified, defamatory material was extremely unusual. The former
British intelligence officer who gathered the material about Mr. Trump
is considered a competent and reliable operative with extensive
experience in Russia, American officials said. But he passed on what he
heard from Russian informants and others, and what they told him has not
yet been vetted by American intelligence.”
In fact, the Times reported Jan. 6 that the official report released
last week by the US intelligence agencies, which accused Putin of
subverting the U.S. election, also came from British intelligence, which
“raised an alarm that Moscow had hacked into the Democratic National
Committee’s computer servers, and alerted their American counterparts.”
But this is what Lyndon LaRouche has reported for many, many years,
regarding the subservience of US intelligence, especially under Bush and
Obama, to the British Empire. After all, it was the British who dragged
the US into war with Iraq based on Tony Blair’s “sexed up” intelligence
reports on Saddam Hussein’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction;
into a war on Libya based on British intelligence lies about Qadaffi and
the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan “freedom fighters;” and the ongoing wars on
Syria and Yemen based on lies from the same British-Saudi networks which
are backing terrorists across Southwest Asia, to impose “regime change”
on secular governments.
Trump yesterday said that “If Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what,
folks? That’s called an asset, not a liability,” describing the urgency
of cooperation in defeating terrorism. The same is true of friendship
with China and Xi Jinping’s New Silk Road initiatives around the world,
which Trump must also join as the core of U.S. foreign policy.
A team of over 20 members of the LaRouche Political Action Committee
were on Capital Hill yesterday, mobilizing the Congress to immediately
pass Glass Steagall, calling especially on Democrats and Republicans to
hold Trump to his pledge during the campaign to implement Glass Steagall
and re-direct U.S. credit to rebuilding the industrial and agricultural
infrastructure, and restore the nations’ pursuit of fusion power, space
exploration, and the frontiers of human knowledge. Nothing less can put
the world back on a course worthy of human dignity for the human race.
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