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Bob Woodward: ‘Russian Dossier’ on Trump a ‘Garbage Document’
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/15/2017 7:39:51 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

When it comes to experience in evaluating the quality of leaked allegations, it’s hard to beat Bob Woodward of Watergate/Deep Throat fame.

So attention must be paid to what Woodward said on today’s Fox News Sunday about the so-called Russia dossier on Donald Trump. Woodward called it a “garbage document.” For good measure, Woodward said the intelligence chiefs made a “mistake” in briefing on the basis of the dossier, and should “apologize.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; districtofcolumbia; donaldtrump; dossier; garbagedocument; russiadossier; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He said it was a mistake and the IC chiefs should apologize. I say it was intentional and that the very act of briefing it was to provide cover for cnn to broadcast it.

Trump truly should drain the IC swamp all the way down to manager level.


21 posted on 01/15/2017 8:05:26 AM PST by xzins (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

All one has to do is ask Christopher Steele (007-secret agent man) who wrote the dossier....where exactly he got the data? Then ask him about the folks who hired him to write the original piece....how they paid him (I’m willing to bet that he was paid outside of the UK, and avoided all taxation)....the Brit authorities might be interested in his deal and how it worked.


22 posted on 01/15/2017 8:05:31 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

It appears to me that he was quite industrious: make it once, sell it many times.


23 posted on 01/15/2017 8:07:00 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m sure Buzzfeed and CNN are going to apologize any day now.


24 posted on 01/15/2017 8:07:19 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Do I believe Woodward or do I believe McLame,Schumer/Pelosi,etc? I think I'll go with Woodward on this one.
25 posted on 01/15/2017 8:09:52 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: pepsionice

Michael Goodwin of the NY Post says it was a company called Fusion GPS who wrote the garbage. Some are suggesting it was paid for by either Mitt or Jeb.

I think in the end, the media is going to end up with a vast amount of egg on their face. Up there with the Hitler Diaries.


26 posted on 01/15/2017 8:14:50 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: oblomov; MinuteGal

Bob Woodward’s father was a conservative Judge in Du Page County (where I live in IL). Wheaton, IL where Woodward was raised, is a couple of towns over from my Village. Bob Woodward spent five years in the Navy. He has little to nothing to do with his old pal Carl Bernstein anymore, and hasn’t for years.

Woodward is what I would define as a moderate Republican, who as he ages, is getting more conservative. One of these days, he’ll turn into his father, lol. Here is a tidbit from WIKI about Woodward:

“Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Jane (née Upshur) and Alfred Eno Woodward II, chief judge of the 18th Judicial Circuit Court. He was a resident of Wheaton, Illinois. He enrolled in Yale College with a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) scholarship, and studied history and English literature. While at Yale, Woodward joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was a member of the prestigious secret society Book and Snake.[2][3]

He received his B.A. degree in 1965, and began a five-year tour of duty in the United States Navy.[citation needed] At one time, he was close to Admiral Robert O. Welander, being communications officer on the USS Fox under Welander’s command.[4]

After being discharged as a lieutenant in August 1970, Woodward considered attending law school but applied for a job as a reporter for The Washington Post, while taking graduate courses at The George Washington University. Harry M. Rosenfeld, the Post’s metropolitan editor, gave him a two-week trial but did not hire him because of his lack of journalistic experience.

After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly newspaper in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, Woodward was hired as a Post reporter in 1971.[5]”

And the rest, as they say, is history.


27 posted on 01/15/2017 8:16:55 AM PST by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45. How sweet it is. )
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To: miss marmelstein

Fusion is just a company that picked up a couple of ex-Brit MI6 retirees and did contracts for foundations/banks/etc. Someone connected to Jeb’s group is the one who approached them. Jeb may not have been fully aware of the deal.

At this point, I think Fusion GPS is finished and will have to shut down....emerge in six months as a different name. Brit tax authorities will be asking too many questions.


28 posted on 01/15/2017 8:18:40 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Avalon Memories

Pelosi comes by her utter corruption quite naturally. Check out her father, Tom D’Alesandro. Wonder why Baltimore is in such rotten shape? The answer is the same.


29 posted on 01/15/2017 8:23:18 AM PST by ryderann
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To: Zenjitsuman

Even a broken clock....


30 posted on 01/15/2017 8:28:47 AM PST by huckfillary
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To: HarleyLady27

I was on BuzzFeed’s mailing list for the humor but unsubscribed because of this.


31 posted on 01/15/2017 8:31:12 AM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: LydiaLong
I’m sure Buzzfeed and CNN are going to apologize any day now./Sarc

Fixed

32 posted on 01/15/2017 8:49:35 AM PST by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

DUH. I swear to God...I could be making a fortune as a talking head if this is all it takes.


33 posted on 01/15/2017 8:50:30 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

DUH. I swear to God...I could be making a fortune as a talking head if this is all it takes.


34 posted on 01/15/2017 8:50:34 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: pepsionice

It’s apparently “just a company” that produces lies designed to take down this president.


35 posted on 01/15/2017 8:51:11 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: pepsionice
Start with Rick (’a top GOPe strategist’) Wilson.

http://time.com/4106999/marco-rubio-super-pac-john-jordan-winery/

36 posted on 01/15/2017 8:58:50 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: flaglady47; Maine Mariner; ExTexasRedhead; Liz; onyx; MS.BEHAVIN; M Kehoe; magnum force 1; ...
I knew the late Du Page County (Illinois) Chief Judge Alfred Woodward well. One very warm summer night a number of decades ago ago he came to my house to informally lobby me (a county elected official and a GOP precinct committeeman) on behalf of his choice for county clerk in a hotly-contested upcoming election for the office.

We sat together outside on my patio chewing the fat for several hours about political things and cabbages and kings.....until we noticed it was 1 AM ! It was a rather memorable evening for me and I think of it often when I see his son on TV.

I think his son, Bob Woodward, became liberally-tainted along the way, perhaps beginning in his years at Yale, most probably during his journalistic stint at the Washington Compost.

However, I agree with you, Flaglady....when I watch Woodward now on TV he is definitely moving more to the right. Perhaps some of the solid middle-west conservatism of his dad is in his genes and is slowly coming to the fore as he ages.

There's always hope.

Leni

37 posted on 01/15/2017 9:06:03 AM PST by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!)
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To: MinuteGal

Nice story.


38 posted on 01/15/2017 9:37:56 AM PST by Liz
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To: pepsionice

BINGO!!! WHO WROTE IT and WHO PAID HIM!!


39 posted on 01/15/2017 9:38:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: xzins
He said it was a mistake and the IC chiefs should apologize. I say it was intentional and that the very act of briefing it was to provide cover for cnn to broadcast it.

Yes. I see no other reason why they put it in the briefing. CNN even admitted that it was the reason why they took the garbage dossier seriously.

Schmucky Schumer even warned or threatened Trump by saying that the CIA would get even with Trump. And I'm sure Obama was in on it too.

Trump truly should drain the IC swamp all the way down to manager level.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

40 posted on 01/15/2017 9:47:54 AM PST by FreeReign
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