Posted on 10/26/2017 9:43:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday that "fake" is not "an accurate characterization for the entirety" of the Steele dossier, and "what has not been corroborated has yet to be determined."
"When we did our Intelligence Committee assessment, we were aware that the -- there had been research done and that some Republican candidates as a matter of fact had contracted through I think Fusion GPS to obtain what it later became much known as a dossier," Clapper told CNN. "That work, as I understand, was handed off later to the DNC and the Clinton campaign. So I think this is something that bears an audit trail by experts in finances that can track the auditing for this, and to see who was responsible for it."
"I think with respect to the dossier itself, the key thing is doesn't matter who paid for it. It's what the dossier said and the extent to which it was -- it's corroborated or not. We had some concerns about it from the standpoint of its sourcing which we couldn't corroborate," he added. "But at the same time, some of the substantive content, not all of it, but some of the substantive content of the dossier, we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community assessment which from other sources in which we had very high confidence to it."
The effort behind the dossier began as "never Trump" GOP-funded opposition research project during the Republican primaries. The donor, PAC or campaign that first retained Fusion GPS has not been revealed.
After Trump secured the presidential nomination, the GOPs behind the Fusion GPS oppo effort dropped the project. It was picked up by the DNC and the Clinton campaign through law firm Perkins Coie. Fusion GPS hired former MI6 officer Christopher Steele
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When you are in a hole, stop digging.
IOW, “fake but accurate.”
This flaming liar needs to be behind bars too.
This is what’s known as an All-American CYA. I’m taking this as that there will be a day of reckoning for the various intelligence agencies and the FBI because they used this PoS dossier to justify a whole lot of bad deeds against American citizens. This is banana republic stuff we’re talking about.
So do you agree with Clapper?
That’s a non-denial denial.
Yeah like Im supposed to believe that Donald Trump flew to Russia so he could piss on Russian Hookers..COME ON, only the DNC would make up such utter BS..probably got the idea after Bill Clinton did it
Yeah, Kennedy called for that day of reckoning and we know how that turned out.
I can't get past his name...
How far are they prepared to go?
This isn’t 1963 anymore.
What an ass
And to think tjis idiot was DNI
Dumbest man ever in his position.
It is amazing to me how arrogant, narcissistic and above the law these pieces of human waste come across.
Clapper IMO is trying to insulate himself from blowback. Clapper probably pushed using the dossier for unmasking and FISA warrants, and now he wants to claim it was for good and probable cause.
Clapper’s a liberal elite liar... that said it’s better to hire whores or watch porn than do what liberal ‘elites’ like Harvey Weinstein do - attack the innocent and young.
If Trump was with a hooker at some point in his life, I don’t give a damn.
Clapper IMO is trying to insulate himself from blowback. Clapper probably pushed using the dossier for unmasking and FISA warrants, and now he wants to claim it was for good and probable cause.
Turns out there was some other Michael Cohen dude traveling to Prague, and these brilliant "intelligence experts" managed to put two and two together ... and come up with 37.8.
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