Posted on 04/29/2019 8:04:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Fusion GPS has insisted that “nothing in the Steele memoranda has been disproven," despite special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report refuting at least one of former British spy Christopher Steele's bombshell claims and casting serious doubt on many others.
Mueller's report confirmed that Cohen “had never traveled to Prague,” as Steele had alleged. Mueller found no collusion between President Trump or any of his associates and Russia. Steele's dossier alleging there was a high-level conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin.
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Fusion GPS stood by the Steele dossier in its entirety. Joshua Levy, counsel for Fusion GPS, said: “The Mueller Report substantiates the core reporting and many of the specifics in Christopher Steele’s 2016 memoranda, including that Trump campaign figures were secretly meeting Kremlin figures, that Russia was conducting a covert operation to elect Donald Trump, and that the aim of the Russian operation was to sow discord and disunity in the US and within the Transatlantic Alliance.”
“To our knowledge, nothing in the Steele memoranda has been disproven."
Former CIA Moscow station chief Daniel Hoffman told the Examiner: “I called what bullshit the dossier was a year and a half ago … It’s likely FSB [the successor agency to the KGB] disinformation.”
Steele was hired by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS in 2016. Fusion GPS was, in turn, being paid by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm. The dossier was used as a central part of one Foreign Intelligence Surveillance application and three renewals to obtain a FISA warrant against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. And it has come under increased scrutiny, with intelligence experts suggesting that some of its claims may have originated as Russian disinformation.
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“These alien fungi are extremely dangerous”
I take your word for it. Not long ago I had a fungal infection in my esophagus (likely from my inhaler) that wiped me out for a few weeks. I think I may have a fungal infection in my lungs. Going in for a CT scan soon.
There is nothing fun about fungi. Except for mushroom gravy over meat loaf or salsbuy steak.
The childish game of proving a negative.
“Oh yeah, prove to me you DIDN’T hire prostitutes to pee on Obama’s bed!”
That knocks the legs out from under the rest of it.
Put up the pee pee video or shut your lying Stalinist clap trap
As soon as someone conclusively proves Steel is not a KGB / FSB agent, I will take a serious look at the unverified and unverifiable dossier. Until then I’ll wait for evidence and not just an allegation.
The burden is on DOJ to prove the allegations. The accused don’t have to disprove them.
Mushroom gravy with shiitake is the best. Once had a friend who swore never to eat a mushroom whose name started with “shiit.” He changed his mind after he tasted them.
We’re Fusion GPS publically traded…now would be the time to sell.
Don’t think I ever had shiitake mushrooms but I’ve heard a lot of good things about them. Mushrooms are very good for you and under appreciated as a nutritional source.
Dossier Claim: Mr. Cohen Goes to Prague
Revelation: The president’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was accused in the dossier of meeting with “Kremlin representatives” in Prague in August 2016. Cohen has repeatedly denied traveling to the Czech capital, but McClatchy last month reported that Mueller had evidence the trip happened.
The report stated that Mueller’s team discovered proof Cohen got to Prague through Germany. The two countries are part of a number of European nations with an open borders agreement that allows undocumented travel. However, no other media outlet has been able to confirm McClatchy’s reporting.
Current McClatchy coverage
The newly released report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller says Donald Trump’s fixer and personal lawyer was not in the Czech Republic months before the 2016 election.
The redacted report is silent on whether investigators received information placing one of Cohen’s devices in or near Prague, as McClatchy reported.
There are similar problems with most of the dossier. There are parts that cannot ever be proven or disproven (mostly the salacious stuff). Other parts could have been known without insider info. e.g. MSM says things like "Kalugin was suspected of helping to finance the email hacking of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta." which is simply junk. Kalugin served Russia in DC from 2010 to 2016 as scheduled and as Steele could have found out.
Nor did Mueller substantiate any of the claims in the Steel document. Tat is a far lower bar than disproving allegations.
Sounds like it is time for some FBI agents to interview Fusion GPS. “So you are saying that the Steel document is truthful, remember it is a federal crime to lie to an FBI agent.”
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