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FBI Still Considers Dossier Credible
FrontPageMag ^ | Dec 29, 2017 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 12/29/2017 1:55:06 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

The FBI admits the Left’s electoral collusion conspiracy theory is unsubstantiated but still refuses to distance itself from the discredited Russia propaganda dossier Democrats paid Fusion GPS to create to undermine President Trump’s candidacy.

Testifying behind closed doors in Congress the week before Christmas, embattled FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reportedly “declined to criticize the dossier’s 35 pages of salacious and criminal charges against Donald Trump and his aides, but he said it remains largely unverified, according to a source familiar with ongoing congressional inquiries.”

According to the Washington Times, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is broadening the scope of its investigation into the collusion theory. The panel is looking at who funded the dossier and whether it was used by the FBI. It is also examining recent misconduct inside the Justice Department and the FBI, as well as the Obama administration’s unmasking of Americans caught up in foreigner-surveillance.

As for McCabe, his entanglement in Democrat politics has had President Trump crying foul. McCabe has said he will retire from the FBI in the spring. He served as acting director of the FBI from May 9 when President Trump fired then-director James Comey until Aug. 2 when new director Christopher Wray took over. While serving as acting FBI director, McCabe was involved in the email investigation.

McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, was a Democratic candidate in 2015 for the Virginia State Senate. Her campaign received nearly $675,000 in donations from the Virginia Democratic Party and Common Good VA, a political action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), a slippery longtime Clinton flunky. Mr. McCabe failed to recuse himself from the Hillary Clinton email probe until Nov. 1, 2016, which was four days after Comey, then the FBI director, announced the agency had reopened the investigation into the emails after finding new data on computer hard drives belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), the now-imprisoned sex-offender husband of Hillary’s top lieutenant, Huma Abedin. It was also eight days after the ties between Mrs. McCabe and McAuliffe became public knowledge.

Whether McCabe should have recused himself from the email investigation is now being examined by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.

Trump attacked McCabe on Twitter on Dec. 24.

.@FoxNews-FBI’s Andrew McCabe, “in addition to his wife getting all of this money from M (Clinton Puppet), he was using, allegedly, his FBI Official Email Account to promote her campaign. You obviously cannot do this. These were the people who were investigating Hillary Clinton.”

The dossier is the salacious report commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS. The statements, among them that Donald Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed, were in the partisan hit job compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and published by cat video website BuzzFeed. In October 2016 Mother Jones reported Steele had boasted to the magazine that he pressed the FBI to begin probing the Trump campaign based on the dossier.

On Dec. 26, President Trump took to Twitter to denounce the dossier:

WOW, @foxandfriends “Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.” And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!

McCabe’s reluctance to condemn a tainted political opposition research paper could be construed as a kind of admission that FBI agents used the dossier to justify the unprecedented investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged electoral collusion with Russia. The FBI has reportedly used information from the dossier in applications for court-ordered wiretaps.

The dossier was just one of many outrageous dirty tricks by Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 election cycle. Clinton used the Democratic National Committee to snuff out Bernie Sanders’ bid for her party’s nomination, Clinton also personally authorized the illicit efforts of socialist felon Bob Creamer and organizer Scott Foval who fomented violence at Trump campaign rallies, as James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas group revealed in undercover videos.

The dossier, which BuzzFeed admitted is littered with errors, claims the Russians and the Trump campaign worked closely together, yet provides only unsourced evidence and rumors. The dossier is dominated by statements identified as coming from unnamed sources in and around the Trump team, the Kremlin, and the business community. Seemingly undermining a key contention raised in the case made against Trump, a dossier document claims Russians tried, but failed, to bribe the man who later became the 45th U.S. president.

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel has called the dossier a joke, saying "we do a disservice when we even refer to it as a 'dossier. That gives it too much mystique. This is an oppo research document but of lower quality than even oppo research documents."

And yet this silly, sloppy dossier threatens to continue to be the focus of the Trump-hating mainstream media for years to come.


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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“The FBI admits the Left’s electoral collusion conspiracy theory is unsubstantiated but still refuses to distance itself from the discredited Russia propaganda dossier Democrats paid Fusion GPS to create to undermine President Trump’s candidacy.”

The use of “collusion” or “dossier” should be punishable by summary execution.


21 posted on 12/29/2017 3:20:41 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: mad_as_he$$

“High level FBI person that doesn’t have Clinton Taint? Unicorn stuff.”

Clinton is a taint.


22 posted on 12/29/2017 3:22:19 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: newfreep

Post #5 - dead on.


23 posted on 12/29/2017 3:24:14 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: newfreep

And I believe Trump’s own security was on top of this as the FISA warrants were being signed. Before the FBI even got a bug planted or phone tap, because he and his team are that good. He has been using it against them from day one, twittering their triggers at his leisure.

Come the new year, we are sending them all to jail!


24 posted on 12/29/2017 3:24:49 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Jacquerie

Those aren’t the only two options - luxurious retirement or keeping him employed. There is trial for treason and incarceration and loss of all pension that his family might benefit from.

And there’s a small chance Lerner could have to face the music if Sessions weren’t in a coma.


25 posted on 12/29/2017 3:25:40 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Stop wasting MY tax money Azzhats!


26 posted on 12/29/2017 3:35:12 AM PST by Renegade
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To: Bonemaker

I despise all things Clinton and generally take the most negative view on their activities. Even my most negative assessment underestimated the corrosive power of their presence in government institutions. Add 8 years of Obama and a Cntl+Alt+Del could be the only answer.


27 posted on 12/29/2017 3:37:35 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Jacquerie

They can put a freeze on his benefits but still get his azz outa there. Truth be told, I think he has already been ‘reassigned’ to a desk with no power, no paper, etc.


28 posted on 12/29/2017 3:42:06 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Delta 21

If you follow “Q”, there SHOULD be massive arrests in 2018.


29 posted on 12/29/2017 3:45:20 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: newfreep

Post #5

BINGO


30 posted on 12/29/2017 3:53:38 AM PST by Maris Crane (.)
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To: newfreep

Yup. I guess that’s the “fruit of the poisonous tree” issue. The fake dossier is the poisonous tree, so everything that grows from it is bad.


31 posted on 12/29/2017 3:56:01 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Of COURSE they do....they PAID for some of it!!


32 posted on 12/29/2017 4:03:47 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Maybe it’s about the clock.....
I noticed, in British Court last week, when the writer of the Dossier was pushed under oath and cross-examination, he admitted everything in the dossier was “Unverified”, he did not claim it to be true in fact. This was in a defamation lawsuit.
Still.....about that clock, time is ticking but very few people in the public now trust the FBI. They have destroyed themselves, and Mueller is taking that stink upon himself.


33 posted on 12/29/2017 4:05:17 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

When you have lied, you have to keep repeating it. Repeating the lie makes it the narrative and more believable. What other choice do they have at this point but to go down with the lie they have embraced?


34 posted on 12/29/2017 4:05:17 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Diogenesis

One question....WHY would the Clintons CARE about and FUND a person running for the VIRGINIA STATE HOUSE??? hmmmmm.....no other reason EXCEPT that she was MARRIED to McCabe...it’s a CLEAR BRIBE!


35 posted on 12/29/2017 4:05:44 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bagster

And he can ride around in his NEW PORSCHE!! HOW did someone on a Govt. salary afford a SIX FIGURE CAR?? hmmmm.


36 posted on 12/29/2017 4:07:29 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

37 posted on 12/29/2017 4:08:36 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: boycott

Sessions also gave Brian Pagliano a FREE PASS!! WAKE UP, JEFFY!!


38 posted on 12/29/2017 4:08:39 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: newfreep

“Q” ?


39 posted on 12/29/2017 4:17:23 AM PST by Not gonna take it anymore (Now that Trump has won, I don't have to post about halfwit anymore)
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To: Ann Archy

FBI DD salary is at least $120k, and his wife is a physician in Maryland, where the average MD salary is $250k. The idea that they can’t afford a $120k auto is laughable.


40 posted on 12/29/2017 4:19:24 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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