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Seven times 'disinformation' turned out to be just the opposite
justthenews.com ^ | 10/12/2022 | Aaron Kliegman

Posted on 10/12/2022 9:06:46 AM PDT by bitt

At the heart of the second trial to come out of Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion probe is a story of disinformation.

Marc Elias, general counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, testified both during a House Intelligence Committee investigation in 2017 and recently during Durham's ongoing probe that he was the one who hired the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump.

Fusion GPS went on to commission former MI6 agent Christopher Steele to create the infamous "Steele dossier," which purported to show collusion between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin. It contained several salacious and since-debunked claims about Trump and his alleged ties to Russia.

The federal government infamously used the now-discredited dossier to obtain a warrant to surveil former Trump 2016 campaign aide Carter Page. The Justice Department later admitted the warrant application was full of misinformation and the surveillance warrant should've never been approved.

The primary source of the Steele dossier was Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who's now on trial as part of Durham's investigation for allegedly lying to the FBI about his own sources for the information that he provided to Steele.

Federal prosecutors allege that Danchenko, who has pleaded not guilty, fabricated and concealed his sources in conversations with the feds. The trial began in Alexandria, Va. on Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; danchenko; disinformation; durham; fbi; hillary; russiahoax; steele; trump

1 posted on 10/12/2022 9:06:46 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 10/12/2022 9:07:01 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

FYI OANN is down right now: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/oann.com.html


3 posted on 10/12/2022 9:09:47 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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Americans need to know and remember that, the number one agent of disinformation, is the federal government and politicians, especially the members of the democratic party.

As soon as the FBI or DOJ say that a document or piece of information is likely Russian disinformation, people need to turn it back around and hear what they say with a lot of skepticism. In fact, more disinformation has come out of the White House and the democrat members of congress, than from all other entities around, foreign and/or domestic.

Even the left-wing media and their supporting social media, are bigger agents of disinformation than all others around. Disinformation is not only false information, but the lack of information where important imformation is lefr out of the mainstream. Lying and hiding information, are the same thing, as far as disinformation is concerned.


4 posted on 10/12/2022 9:30:18 AM PDT by adorno
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BTTT


5 posted on 10/12/2022 10:51:47 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: adorno
Even the left-wing media and their supporting social media, are bigger agents of disinformation than all others around. Disinformation is not only false information, but the lack of information where important imformation is left out of the mainstream. Lying and hiding information, are the same thing, as far as disinformation is concerned.

When our enemedia refuse to provide the appropriate information so Americans can make informed decisions: political, health-wise, or other...they are doing the exact same thing the "fact-checkers" do when they ridicule and deride memes...they simply create the narrative they want to be heard and seen...everything else THEY DEEM "disinformation".

There isn't an honest "journalist" still left in America! I would bet a paycheck on that!
6 posted on 10/12/2022 11:34:15 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: bitt

Assume that whatever the “mainstream” media tells yo is disinformation, because it almost always is.


7 posted on 10/14/2022 5:20:39 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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