Posted on 12/16/2019 5:27:58 AM PST by karpov
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[M]any journalists seem determined not to explain how the report vitiates the “Steele dossier” and discredits its author, Christopher Steele, a former British spy who peddled third-hand hearsay to gullible paymasters at both the opposition-research firm Fusion GPS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With a few exceptions, journalists have eagerly embraced former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as guardians of democracy rather than culpable apologists for dire threats to Americans’ civil liberties.
Every American who cares about civil liberties should peruse at least pages 186-93, wherein the inspector general’s staff shreds the Steele dossier piece by piece and indicts the bureau’s reliance on visibly shoddy work that any unbiased intelligence professional would have quickly discarded.
Mr. Steele confessed in a 2016 FBI interview that one of his top two sources was a “boaster” and “egotist” who “may engage in some embellishment” (page 110). Mr. Steele had asserted to interviewing agents that this person—whom he variously called “Source D,” “Source E,” a Trump “associate” and “Person 1”; we’ll go with P1 for short—was the source for both the dossier’s most salacious claims about Donald Trump and the information on which the FBI relied to obtain a warrant to spy on former campaign aide Carter Page.
Yet Mr. Steele’s “Primary Sub-source”—we’ll abbreviate that to PSS—contradicted those claims, telling the FBI that P1 didn’t furnish any salacious information. Mr. Steele claimed that PSS and P1 had met two or three times, but PSS said their only contact was a single 10- to 15-minute phone conversation.
Three FBI interviews of PSS in the first half of 2017 impeached Mr. Steele’s reporting—even as the bureau was petitioning the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to keep extending its pointless electronic surveillance of poor Mr. Page.
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so does it mean anyone is going to serve time...
the cogs of justice sure move slowly...
1) Any Day Now.
2) 4 to 6 weeks.
3) Four to Six Months.
4) Never.
#4 is way out front and pulling strong.
If Barr/Durham punt, the game’s over.
They’re not going to punt, in my estimation.
I listen to Hugh Hewitt’s morning radio show. He rarely has callers but this morning he did. One caller said, “for the long term gain of maybe a 7-2 Supreme Court and maybe one hundred more Circuit and Federal judges, I am OK with the scum bags in the FBI walking free with pensions”.
It’s all about the Supreme Court. Even Ruth is not going to outlast another Presidet Trump.
Next President gets a minimum of 2 Scotus picks.Thomas retires. Diabetic Latina may not last that long either.
The dossier has been described as.....Garbage, Crap, bar room talk, unverified AND paid for by Hillary.
I’ll give Steele credit for one thing. He was able to generate a pile of garbage and sold it to NeverTrumpers, DNC, Clinton campaign AND the criminal organization FKA the FBI. He got a lot of money and managed to dupe some big people.
Short sighted. Like boxing an opponent with a knife.
They are NOT journalists only job they can find is smut making.
“dupe some big people”
Some big people want to be lied to, if it serves their narrative.
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