Posted on 10/12/2022 6:35:55 AM PDT by george76
Just when you start to think the FBI couldn’t be exposed as any more corrupt, another revelation drops and ups the ante. That happened on Tuesday after a new report showed that the FBI wasn’t content with just following the facts as they had them prior to the 2016 election.
While it’s long been known that the bureau was desperately searching for something to stop Donald Trump’s election, things apparently went much further than just mining badly sourced intelligence. According to the report, which is based on testimony from Igor Danchenko’s ongoing trial, the FBI attempted to pay Christopher Steele up to $1,000,000 to “prove” his discredited dossier was true. All of this happened prior to election day in 2016.
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Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the explosive allegations in his dossier about Donald Trump, a senior FBI analyst testified Tuesday.
The cash offer was made during an October 2016 meeting between Steele and several top FBI officials who were trying to corroborate Steele’s claims that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to win the election.
FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified that Steele never got the money because he could not “prove the allegations.”
Auten also said Steele refused to provide the names of any of his sources during that meeting, and that Steele didn’t give the FBI anything during that meeting that corroborated the claims in his explosive dossier.
Ultimately Steele couldn’t prove his claims because the claims weren’t true. That’s not exactly noteworthy given we’ve known the dossier was garbage from nearly the moment it became public. Steele was a grifter, pedaling claims fed to him by Russians who knew they were spreading disinformation. That was one of the great ironies of the entire ordeal. While the FBI has constantly screeched about Russian election interference, they are the ones who got suckered by it.
I think the big thing that’s revealed here, and disturbingly so, is exactly how far the FBI was willing to go to try to clear the deck for Hillary Clinton. They weren’t just taking the facts as they came, waiting for a case to be built organically. Instead, they were taking taxpayer money and attempting to pay off a foreign spy to provide campaign-destroying information on Donald Trump. For all the talk about Watergate over the years, that’s infinitely worse and more corrupt.
You can’t even draw a parallel with prosecutors paying people for tips because in that case, there’s already a crime that’s been committed and pinpointed. Here, the FBI was just shooting into the dark with no basis whatsoever, desperately hoping to come up with anything that could stop Trump’s rise to the White House. That’s the only motivation that could have existed given the lack of any evidence at all of Steele’s salacious assertions.
Will anyone be held accountable, up to and including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? Of course, they won’t be. I don’t even expect any lower-level FBI agents to take the fall here. The bureaucracy protects its own, and with John Durham stuck dealing with D.C. judges and juries, there will be no justice served. Once again, those who recognize the corruption that went on are left hoping that one day, someone will enter the White House with the strategic ability and courage to tear the FBI down brick by brick. Until then, the pain will continue.
We’re the feds trying to pay for intel, or were they calling Steele’s bluff? Sounds to me like they called his bluff, knew the thing was garbage, but pursued anyway.
Sad thing is the great GOP was bipartisan on Biden as president and the hate Trump crowd since 2016. Amazing he got anything done despite the opposition.
Maybe someone will listen and go after the FBI and it’ll be a true BOMBSHELL.
Bonzo and Holder’s boys. Now I understand why the crap in the “media” was whining about how Bonzo’s “seventeen intelligence communities” were pissin’ and moanin’ just minutes after President Trump had been elected. They believed that Americans had no right to elect President Trump over their former “next president”, Tramp.
I wonder if there was not some sort of “operation paperclip”
for the FBI. And they just scarfed up all of the Stasi and KGB agents they could find..
Like I said before,
This sure sounds like a Major Felony worthy of LIFE in Prison for every last person involved
Could be. All of the government agencies sure swerved to the left in a hurry.
BTTT
And Comey’s first meeting with Trump was along the lines of “We’ve got this disturbing dossier about you and hooker in Russia...”
Trump said he viewed it as a ‘threat’.
Firing Comey did not have the desired effect- the people that took over were worse. He should have fired the entire top few layers.
Trump thought he needed people with Experience- which is ABSOLUTELY true in the business world- but in government it just means you’ve slithered your way to the top.
And “Republican” Chris Wray still walks around as a free man.
“We’re the feds trying to pay for intel, or were they calling Steele’s bluff? “
If that were the case, they’d be crapping all over themselves to present documentation proving that was the case.
Kaboom?
[Not really.]
Still don’t know what Steele was doing in Italy or in Halifax in 2016...
Inquiring minds want to know.
And published it like it was true and then used the publishing of it to set up fisa warrants. Then publis I see we have finally warrants he must be colluding with russia.
Obama’s FBI must be SHUTDOWN
Its only stunning if you aren’t paying attention and still naively believe that the FBI is an even-handed law enforcement agency. For everyone else, this is expected.
And Barr still sticks up for the FBI and DOJ and Sessions is still clueless.
Pence, VP. Barr, AG. Etc. The entire apple barrel is rotten to the core. That's what the new FBI would look like. Everybody with integrity stays as far away from DC as possible.
Ping
FBI is obsolete.
Even if they weren’t a corrupt political force it’s necessity is no longer exists, made obsolete and anachronistic due to technological advances.
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