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What If It’s True? Russia, the FBI, and the New York Times.
https://www.wsj.com ^ | 01/02/18 | By James Freeman

Posted on 01/05/2018 10:24:16 AM PST by Para-Ord.45

Wednesday is the latest deadline for the Department of Justice to cough up records related to its use of a Clinton-funded anti-Trump dossier in its 2016 investigation of the party out of power. The big question is whether our government used fake news paid for by a political campaign to turn the surveillance apparatus of the federal government against a political rival..it will perhaps be chilling to those who participate in American politics to learn that mentioning that you’ve heard a report that the Russians have dirt on an American politician is enough for the FBI to investigate you and your American associates..Yet there’s new reason to doubt that this is the whole story, and the reason is bound to be even more disturbing to all participants in our democracy.On Friday night Lindsey Graham told Fox News : "After having looked at the history of the dossier, and how it was used by the Department of Justice, I’m really very concerned, and this cannot be the new normal". New York Times published a story that doesn’t explain how the dossier was used or whether it was described accurately by Obama administration officials to a federal judge...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comey; fbi; fbioutofcontrol; fusiongps; goldenshowersdossier; mueller; nyt; steeledossier; trumpdossier
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1 posted on 01/05/2018 10:24:16 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45

WSJ: “Observers like Andrew McCarthy at National Review have noted that the latest Times reporting on this subject contradicts earlier assertions from the Times and makes no sense given the timeline of interviews conducted by the FBI.”


2 posted on 01/05/2018 10:25:25 AM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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There is no question in my mind.
Democrats have shown time after time they are corrupt to the core, and that is only stuff thats gone public.

If they could somehow cheat the election and get away with it, they would do it in a heartbeat.


3 posted on 01/05/2018 10:26:33 AM PST by No_More_Harkin
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To: No_More_Harkin

Waste of time posting WSJ stories. Can’t read them without a subscription.


4 posted on 01/05/2018 10:29:02 AM PST by Mr_Peter
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To: Mr_Peter

No need. I just gave you the bullet points.


5 posted on 01/05/2018 10:30:33 AM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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Its just dawning on the Wall Street Journal that the FBI colluded with the Clinton campaign to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign and that the New York Times ran interference for it? Most of us have known this for a while.


6 posted on 01/05/2018 10:32:45 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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What if it’s true???

Even if it’s true, will that mean Clinton will be charged? Sent to jail?

(insert sarcastic laugh here)

Our government at all levels (including the FBI) is corrupt and dishonest.


7 posted on 01/05/2018 10:35:08 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (R2: Proudly intruding since 1958)
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To: Para-Ord.45

What if the sky were not seen as blue. What if the sun really revolved around the earth. What if, what if. What a load of crap.


8 posted on 01/05/2018 10:37:18 AM PST by JayAr36 (Sliding into Socialism daily.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
...and the reason is bound to be even more disturbing to all participants in our democracy...

um.....
9 posted on 01/05/2018 10:38:13 AM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Lindsey Graham told Fox News : “After having looked at the history of the dossier, and how it was used by the Department of Justice, I’m really very concerned, and this cannot be the new normal”.

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Wake up there Linda. “New Normal”?

Hell, this is the OLD Normal. Nobody used the FBI and other agencies better than political playthings better than the Clintons and Obama.


10 posted on 01/05/2018 10:38:20 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (R2: Proudly intruding since 1958)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Its just dawning on the Wall Street Journal that the FBI colluded with the Clinton campaign to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign and that the New York Times ran interference for it? Most of us have known this for a while.

Dunning-Kruger effect:

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is.

The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude; without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.[


11 posted on 01/05/2018 10:39:17 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Para-Ord.45
When it truly begins to sink in to the general American public that the FBI and other alphabet apparatus have morphed into a mild KGB equivalent, that's when you see the government in general as being illegitimate and only in power via the barrel of a gun.
Things don't typically go well after that.
12 posted on 01/05/2018 10:45:41 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Para-Ord.45; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

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13 posted on 01/05/2018 10:46:21 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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I saw the full article here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-if-its-true-1514940313


14 posted on 01/05/2018 10:47:47 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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What If It’s True? Russia, the FBI, and the New York Times.

If it's true, the FBI and New York times are full of felonious criminals.

15 posted on 01/05/2018 10:49:13 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Mr_Peter

I saw the full article here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-if-its-true-1514940313


16 posted on 01/05/2018 10:49:34 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Its just dawning on the Wall Street Journal that the FBI colluded with the Clinton campaign to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign and that the New York Times ran interference for it? Most of us have known this for a while.”

Change that up. What is more scary is the “Obama Administration” colluded with the Clinton campaign to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign and that the New York Times ran interference for it?


17 posted on 01/05/2018 10:59:02 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Delusional - Adjective, Describes a Democrat or member of the MSM)
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To: Para-Ord.45
What If It's True?

It sounds like some people, who may have not been paying attention, have suddenly become aware of the enormity of the crimes committed by the law enforcement branch of our government - nothing less than a criminal conspiracy to fabricate evidence of crimes against an opposition candidate and duly-elected president.

18 posted on 01/05/2018 11:03:14 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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Its just dawning on the Wall Street Journal that the FBI colluded with the Clinton campaign to conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign and that the New York Times ran interference for it?

Not everybody at the WSJ - Kim Strassel has been on this from the beginning.

19 posted on 01/05/2018 11:05:35 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
What if it’s true???

Even if it’s true, will that mean Clinton will be charged? Sent to jail?

(insert sarcastic laugh here)


Indict Hillary, You are out of your mind.

Our government at all levels (including the FBI) is corrupt and dishonest.

Here you go.

20 posted on 01/05/2018 11:17:09 AM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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