Accountability for a Dossier: The dirty trick that started the collusion fable needs exposing

Wall Street Journal ^ | March 25, 2019 | William McGurn

[billorites]

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has dispatched the Russia collusion theories to the land of cranks and bitter-enders, but there are still some loose ends. To wit, how did the partisan propaganda known as the Steele dossier become the basis for an unprecedented FBI probe of a presidential campaign, an abuse of law enforcement, and two years of media and political hysteria?

We know the outlines of the story but not all the details, and no one has yet been held accountable under the law or even held to much public scrutiny. It’s time for both.

The dossier was concocted in spring 2016 by oppo-research firm Fusion GPS, and financed by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Fusion hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile sensational claims, based on anonymous Russian sources, that Donald Trump was compromised by Russian intelligence.

Mr. Steele used his intelligence contacts to get the dossier to an Obama State Department official and the FBI. Fusion GPS chief Glenn Simpson funneled it to the FBI through Justice Department employee Bruce Ohr...

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Mr. Mueller’s conclusion that there was no collusion suggests that he was not able to verify the dossier’s claims, and there needs to be a reckoning. The country has endured two years of angst and controversy based on a politically motivated invention financed by the Clinton campaign and promoted by former Obama CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

The Justice Department Inspector General is investigating, and so should prosecutors. Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham is promising hearings, and he should put this entire crowd under oath. The Steele dossier looks like one of the nastiest dirty tricks in political history, and its authors and promoters should be held accountable.

[The Great RJ]

I have long maintained that the Clintons will come to an ignominious end. Bill will likely have a fatal heart attack between the thighs of some bimbo and Hillary will end up in a private sanitarium babbling how she was robbed of the presidency. While deserving of jail for their many fraudulent schemes it might be more just for them to just fade to obscurity and irrelevance.

[zerosix]

That answer is fine, so far as it goes but this treason goes much deeper than BHO.

Even HE (Hussein O) couldn’t have dreamed this up, ordered all OUR intelligence agencies, going down into lower levels, entire Justice Department and full force and engagement of the FBI, with no leaks from “rogue” agents, employees, etc.!

If, and I do stress, if, he alone in consultation of his closest assistants, did, then his “help” came from outside the US and since there were no “whistleblowers” then all employees are dirty to their core and must be removed now, never again to work at any government agency - losing all retirement and other benefits forever!