‘Who paid for the dossier?’ doesn't matter; Russian meddling in our elections is what's important

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 27, 2017 | The Times Editorial Board

[Parley Baer]

Is not the fake dossier meddling in our election? They are using that as a basis for impeachment. It is the basis for the investigation into President Trump. The Times is nuts.

[Elsie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro

“I have no name.” http://www.great-quotes.com/quotes/movie/O+Brother,+Where+Art+Thou

[datricker]

If the FBI knew their were Russian spies trying to infiltrate HRC inner circle and this attempt by Putin to get the Uranium how is it possible they didn't know about HRC's email server.

If they knew of the unsecured email server how could the FBI allow that to continue?

This is looking more and more like treasonous activity maybe fueled by hubris but something here doesn't pass the smell test.

[Hostage]

> “... remember the ***bogus*** scandal about the supposedly improper “unmasking” of Trump transition officials whose names appeared in intelligence intercepts? “

Bogus? BOGUS??? When did the illegal unmasking become ‘bogus’?

[ilovesarah2012]

What did Russia actually do to cause people to not vote for Hillary? I don’t understand.

[fuzzylogic]

Russian meddling is what is important, I agree!!!

...and it was Hillary & the DNC that were complicit in assisting them.

[MountainWalker]

Yeah, it doesn’t matter that Crooked committed flagrant treason and should be hanged. Other than than, no biggie.

[Dr. Zzyzx]

“This Jackass reporter”

It’s even worse than that. It’s the entire LA Times editorial board!

[Ann Archy]

Get the FUSION GPS BANK RECORDS!!!! NOW!!

[phormer phrog phlyer]

Left coast swamp creatures.

[moehoward]

“Who paid for the 35-page report compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele is far less important than whether any or all of the allegations it contains are true.”

It seems like only yesterday the Left was saying it didn’t matter what the DNC/et al emails SAID, what mattered is how they were attained.

[wiggen]

They make one attempt at truth and accuracy in that editorial. “If some of the allegations in the Steele dossier are accurate,”. So they acknowledge nothing in there may be accurate but they’ll run an editorial on a just in case anything is accurate basis.

[spintreebob]

‘Who paid for the dossier?’ doesn’t matter; Russian meddling in our elections is what’s important

So who dragged Russia into this?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Who paid for the 35-page report compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele is far less important than whether any or all of the allegations it contains are true.

Oh, I agree absolutely. But since anyone with the IQ of oatmeal knows that "the allegations it contains” were made up out of whole cloth and have no legitimate basis whatsoever, the “question” is already answered. In the negative.

The only interesting questions are who paid for this dog’s breakfast, what/to whom did Fusion GPS spend the money for, and how/to what extent has use been made of it to put the color of authority behind demands to conduct witch hunts with FISA warrants and an illegitimate special counsel?

[Impy]

I remain unaware of what actual crime was allegedly committed.

[Cementjungle]

Trump beat Hillary. That’s the crime.

[Flaming Conservative]

Next time, could you please add either a barf alert or a blood pressure warning before you post? At least then, I can prepare myself before I read the article. \;-D

[Flaming Conservative]

Their tripe doesn’t have to make sense....remember who their audience is.

[Liz]

LA TIMES: Russian meddling in our elections is what's important....

I guess the LA Times did not see anything amiss when Bill
Clinton meddled in an election to enrich him and Hillary.

This gambit by Bill Clinton (meddling in a foreign election) got the Russian uranium scheme going. Bill's calculated handshake was a bonanza for the Kazahk president's re-election. Nazarbayev responded in kind and signed-off on the initial phase of Russia's takeover of US uranium assets.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev greets former
president Clinton (L) in Almaty on September 6, 2005.

CIRCA 2015 A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter claims that former President Bill Clinton falsely denied hosting a meeting with Kazakh officials when she tried to write a story that involved his foundation several years ago.

Jo Becker, who works on the newspaper's investigative desk, said Clinton only confirmed the meeting took place after she informed him there were photographs.

Clinton's role in a deal that involved Kazakhstan, the Russian government, and a man who donated millions to the president's charitable foundation were detailed in a story Becker published on Thursday.

That article revisited some of her earlier reporting and included information from the upcoming book "Clinton Cash," which is generating widespread headlines amid a flurry of reports suggesting it will raise serious questions about Clinton's family foundation.

The donor in question is Canadian mining executive Frank Giustra, a longtime friend of the former president who has given tens of millions to the Clinton Foundation in the past few years. (A couple of hours after the NYT story was published, Giustra issued a defiant statement. We've included that below.)

Becker initially wrote about the February 2007 meeting between Clinton, Giustra, and executives from the state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom in 2008. The gathering took place at Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.

"When I first contacted both the Clinton foundation — Mr. Clinton's spokesman — and Mr. Giustra, they denied any such meeting ever took place," Becker recalled in footage aired by Fox News on Thursday.

However, Becker said Clinton and Giustra both changed their stories after she confronted them with evidence to the contrary.

"And then when we told them, 'Well we already talked to the head of Kazatomprom, who not only told us all about the meeting, but actually has a picture of him and Bill at the home in Chappaqua, and that he proudly displayed on his office wall.' They then acknowledged that yes, the meeting had taken place," Becker continued in the television interview.

The purpose of the meeting, then Kazatomprom President Moukhtar Dzhakishev told The Times, was to discuss Kazakhstan potentially buying a 10% stake in Westinghouse, a US nuclear company. Becker's 2008 story also noted one of Giustra's companies secured a deal to buy uranium deposits from Kazatomprom in 2005.

That agreement was made after Clinton accompanied Giustra on a trip to Kazakhstan. During the trip, Giustra and Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Clinton issued a public statement praising the Kazakh leader despite his questionable, antidemocratic record. The Times called the praise a "propaganda coup" for Nazarbayev. (he later "won relection" w/ an unbelievable 90% of the vote)

"Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle," wrote Becker and another reporter, Don Van Natta.

A spokesperson for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership told Business Insider they are "working on a formal statement" in response to a request for comment on Thursday. Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership is an initiative of the Clinton Foundation that was cofounded by Clinton and Giustra in 2007. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-reporter-clinton-lied-about-meeting-2015-48/25

[Liz]

...... a strange and disturbing turn..... Steele's dossier was passed along to the FBI. ...... to justify a Full Investigation, which in turn was used to justify a FISA order to surveil Trump's associates....the dossier was created and supplied to provide a pretext for an FBI FI, without which surveillance of the Trump campaign would not be possible.

They got a REAL problem...... b/c the (faked) dossier was actually used to get the go-ahead to conduct surveillance on individuals in the Trump campaign, and president Trump himself......and unmasking innocent citizens in the process, including General Kelly.

Their problem is ....it is a felony to WITHHOLD info from the court to get the OK to surveil someone.

<><>Did UN Amb Power's innumerable requests for a FISA warrant stipulate that Obama and Susan Rice wire-tapped Trump Tower......while Trump was a candidate?

<><> Did Power's obsessive requests stipulate that Obama's CIA director Brennan used phony foreign intel as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into candidate Trump?

<><> Did the request for a FISA warrant stipulate that phony foreign intel led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to candidate Trump (residing and conducting business in Trump Tower)?

<><> Did the request for a FISA warrant stipulate that foreign intel gave cover to Susan Rice's sifting/unmasking operations?

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I didn't think so.

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REALITY CHECK---FROM ONE OF THE MANY EXPOSES---Seeking to retain his position as CIA director under Hillary, Obama-era Brennan at the CIA used phony foreign intel as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into Trump.

That led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to Trump Tower and gave cover to Susan Rice's sifting/unmasking operations.

Not only Brennan.... "Susan The Sifter" had a dog in this hunt......Hillary tapped her for Secy of State. One could conclude Comey also had his reasons .....to stay on as a Hillary factotum. Mighty powerful incentives for anti-Trump shenanigans.

.......apparently there are records proving that Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, oversaw repeated spying on the phone calls of President Donald Trump and millions of other private American citizens. An audiotape just released by Federal Judge G. Murray Snow is part of a civil case........

Whomever tried the translation from English to Russian screwed-up several times....... and this is how they were outed.