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4Chan Claims To Have Fabricated Anti-Trump Report As A Hoax
Zero Hedge ^ | Jan 11, 2016 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 01/11/2017 11:18:29 PM PST by greeneyes

In a story that is getting more surreal by the minute, a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous "golden showers" scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as "fanfiction", then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: HandyDandy

okay that could be the case too. the anon 4chan guy last night on twitter said he sent it out to A LOT of people to see if they’d bite. But the 4chan poster loved trolling Wilson in particular looking at an older tweet that he made before this story broke. Making fun of Wilson’s son and his sexual fetish which apparently is getting pissed on. Wilson had blocked him.


21 posted on 01/12/2017 12:16:05 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Part or all of the report was faked by 4Chan user and directed to never Trumper Rick Wilson. He fell for it and apparently gave it to CIA who also fell for it and included it in their report.

New Spin is that the CIA merely included it as examples of the types of stuff that was being peddled to try and compromise Trump.

The claims I read on twitter was that CIA, CNN, Wilson, and McCain all got punked. Further more this info had been floating around the gossip groups in DC for months, and most news outlets had refused to do anything with it because it had such outlandish and unbelievable claims and zero proof.

The alleged inclusion by the CIA, and their leak that Trump had been briefed gave CNN an excuse to report on it in a cleverly worded disinformation report. Careful not to tell what was actually there and giving the impression that the info could be really damaging.

They noted that it had been known for a while, but never mentioned before. However, their intelligence sources had told them that it was Opposition research hired by GOPe and DNC and came from a former MI6 agent was deemed a credible source.

So again we had unnamed Intelligence sources with a high degree of confidence meme. What CNN did was worse than what Buzzfeed did. Buzzfeed noted that the fantastic claims were likely not true, even though they printed the whole thing of outlandish garbage.

CNN gave the impression that there was real damaging stuff, that they were waiting until IC could verify before they would tell specifics. Carefully worded so that they could avoid libel/slander laws. Shades of Dan Rather - even used the terms: seriousness of the charges IIRC.

If someone wanted to do a spoof on spies and news, they couldn’t make stuff like this up - it defies the imagination. LOL


22 posted on 01/12/2017 12:17:12 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: Reddy

Don’t ask me anything about that - I had to google to find out what in the heck they were talking about. My face was red for at least 24 hrs.


23 posted on 01/12/2017 12:18:56 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: HandyDandy

And the 4chan anon’s twitter account he had his location the UK. Twitter account was only a couple months old. Apparently he’s had twitter accounts shutdown before because...well...he trolls people like Wilson.


24 posted on 01/12/2017 12:21:35 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: greeneyes
As a top GOPe strategist who did Rick Wilson work for? Rubio? Cruz? Jeb? Lacy Graham? I did ‘search’ and not much showed up, on this leader of the GOPe. Maybe Rick Wilson moonlighted for Hillry and her DNC? I did find he hails out of Florida.
25 posted on 01/12/2017 12:23:15 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Thinking about it more, since the 4chan troll’s twitter has his location as the UK, he probably sent it to Wilson pretending he was some UK former spy. LOL


26 posted on 01/12/2017 12:23:46 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart

Funny part about that is that the 4chan guy on the Jeff Kuhner radio show actually stated that some of the “fanfiction” was written by Rick Wilson’s son. That just reconfirms for me that the 4chn caller was legit. In the segment I caught on the car radio while driving there was no mention of a British spy. The caller did say things got added and the story got embellished.


27 posted on 01/12/2017 12:25:23 AM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: Just mythoughts

I didn’t recognize the name and didn’t get the idea that he was a top operative exactly, he apparently made some sexually disparaging remark about trump supporters.

That was another reason that the prankster and his fellow chatters couldn’t believe he took the bait - should have been obvious they thought.

To be honest, I don’t know much about that site, I only clicked a link to see what the rest of the chatters had to say and see what the site looked like. First and last time to visit I think.


28 posted on 01/12/2017 12:27:59 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: snarkytart
Thinking about it more, since the 4chan troll’s twitter has his location as the UK, he probably sent it to Wilson pretending he was some UK former spy. LOL

I had the same thought last night. I think I read lord McCain sent a representative to the UK to pick up this 'report'. That took some 'scheduling' and who did lord McCain send?

29 posted on 01/12/2017 12:30:13 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: snarkytart

That’s almost plausible. The other thing to keep in mind is that it was “several” 4chan users who put the piece of fiction together.


30 posted on 01/12/2017 12:31:12 AM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: Just mythoughts

That’s a good point. I wasn’t sure where the MI6 got added in.


31 posted on 01/12/2017 12:31:45 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: sockmonkey

Well, Trump really did set it up to show that IC was leaking, because he told no one about the meeting.


32 posted on 01/12/2017 12:34:14 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes
I didn’t recognize the name and didn’t get the idea that he was a top operative exactly, he apparently made some sexually disparaging remark about trump supporters. That was another reason that the prankster and his fellow chatters couldn’t believe he took the bait - should have been obvious they thought. To be honest, I don’t know much about that site, I only clicked a link to see what the rest of the chatters had to say and see what the site looked like. First and last time to visit I think.

A couple of 'articles' I found on him, he is noted as being a 'top' Republican mouthpiece... I think he was the source for Ted Cruz calling Trump supporters 'low information' voters... because one article quoted Rick Wilson as calling Trump supporters 'low information'... He was anti-Trump from the beginning.. What I cannot find, which politician hired him.

33 posted on 01/12/2017 12:35:50 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: snarkytart

What we need to realize is that a fake story about our Pres elect became embedded in a dossier kept by our “intelligence” agencies, aided and abetted by John McCain who provided them with the false information. And then made its way into print!


34 posted on 01/12/2017 12:39:47 AM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
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To: greeneyes

this is a good recap.

including the alleged 4chan anon troll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdH9eDJFIE


35 posted on 01/12/2017 12:46:26 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Southack
it doesn't seem like McCain's talking about where he got it or when he got it.

the Guardian claims this:

Senator John McCain, a hawkish Republican, was there and was introduced to a former senior western diplomat who had seen the documents, knew their source and thought him highly reliable. McCain decided the implications were sufficiently alarming to dispatch a trusted emissary, a former US official, to meet the source and find out more.

The emissary hastily arranged a transatlantic flight and met the source at the airport as arranged. (The Guardian has agreed not to specify the city or country where the meeting took place.) The meeting had a certain cold war tradecraft to it, as he was told to look for a man with a copy of the Financial Times. Having found each other, the retired counter-intelligence officer drove the emissary to his house, where they discussed the documents and their background.

The emissary flew back within 24 hours and showed McCain the documents, saying it was hard to impossible to verify them without a proper investigation. McCain said he was reluctant to get involved, lest it be perceived as payback for insulting remarks Trump had made about him during his rambunctious campaign.

However, on 9 December, McCain arranged a one-on-one meeting with Comey, with no aides present, and handed them over.

“Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI. That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue,” the senator said in a statement on Wednesday morning.


possible McCain got punked.
36 posted on 01/12/2017 12:47:04 AM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

good recap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdH9eDJFIE


37 posted on 01/12/2017 12:47:09 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Wilderness Conservative

“Someone help me here. A 4chan user faked the docs under the guise of a mI6er or a MI6er forged or fell for it?”

Exactly


38 posted on 01/12/2017 12:49:29 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison)
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To: Just mythoughts

Well, whatever he was doing in the primaries, he’s not all that top, because he wasn’t on any national news programs that I ever saw. I suppose it is possible that he was a volunteer for some Republican somewhere or other.


39 posted on 01/12/2017 12:52:35 AM PST by greeneyes
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To: stylin19a
possible McCain got punked.

The so called report was supposedly given to Rick Wilson first. Then it appears as if a 'conspiracy' was hatched to give the report 'credibility'... across the pond. WHO did lord McCain send to fetch this 'report'?

Senator John McCain, a hawkish Republican, was there and was introduced to a former senior western diplomat who had seen the documents, knew their source and thought him highly reliable. McCain decided the implications were sufficiently alarming to dispatch a trusted emissary, a former US official, to meet the source and find out more.

Where is 'was there'? Who is the former 'senior' western diplomat? And who is this 'trusted emissary'?

40 posted on 01/12/2017 12:58:11 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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