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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

Assign a hand picked person to head the FBI and clean house. A purge.


41 posted on 12/29/2017 4:21:03 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Not gonna take it anymore
"Q" is the highest level of clearance and a "Chan" poster by the name of "Q" posts cryptic messages that seem to be proven true and embraced by former military.

Some believe "Q" is an insider in the WH and knowledgeable of coming plans.

On 12/24, "Q" posted the iconic photo of Washington Crossing the Delaware. Within hours, Mattis re-posted same photo that seem to provide credibility of "Q".


42 posted on 12/29/2017 4:34:02 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Proof, that ALL of the intelligence community knows the dossier is fake, lies in the cold hard truth that they have not seriously tried to investigate it. Any real investigation will discredit it.

All involved should be FIRED for dereliction of duty,at the very least. The superiors should be prosecuted for several crimes.


43 posted on 12/29/2017 4:34:21 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

He is boxed in by his own actions when he used the dossier for FISA warrants. His words would testify against him if he acknowledged the dossier was a hoax. As if the fact that it is a democrat hit piece were not bad enough.


44 posted on 12/29/2017 4:38:55 AM PST by odawg
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To: Not gonna take it anymore

A couple of links to help become familiar with Q and his Chan postings...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/

https://qcodefag.github.io/

Finally, there are a number of YouTube channels that help to decipher Q’s posts - here’s a couple:

https://www.youtube.com/user/tracybeanz/videos?disable_polymer=1

https://www.youtube.com/user/BPEarthWatch/videos?disable_polymer=1

A bit of advice - take all with a grain of salt...but much have been proven to be correct.


45 posted on 12/29/2017 4:39:50 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

We all wait on the IG report, due Jan 15th. It should take down Team Sedition. Happy day!

Yes, I am an optimist.

The 1.2 million pages of investigated documents the IG has will be released to Nunez and the Judiciary comittee in a few days. Ahead of the report. Look for the screaming lol.

If the IG report is as damning as rumored, Sessions will be forced to reopen the Hillary email investigation, with people other than Team Sedition running it. And proof they violated policy to exhonerate Hillary, then spied on Trump and friends illegally to throw the election, then overthrow a duly elected President.

That, my friends, meets the definition of Sedition.

Then it’s up to congress, and us, to scream bloody murder and push for hangings. Literally.

Be ready.

Oh, and Q is a larper. But nameredacted on twitter is a true insider.


46 posted on 12/29/2017 4:41:57 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

...embattled FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reportedly...

There’s that word reportedly again.


47 posted on 12/29/2017 4:45:01 AM PST by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: jjotto

No it isn’t.....it’s FLAUNTING his CORRUPTNESS! He got right after he got his new position that he got because of the Clinton BRIBE money to his wife so that he wouldn’t Prosecute.


48 posted on 12/29/2017 4:50:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

It seems to me that McCabe and Rosenstein are low hanging fruit. Congress should just subpoena them and tell them to bring the FISA applications. When they refuse, arrest them for contempt of congress (who cares about past tradition, this is a war), and then Trump can fire them. I wonder why Trump and Congress continue to treat McCabe and Rosenstein with kid gloves and honor meaningless traditions that do not meld well with the Constitution and the intent of the Founding Fathers.


49 posted on 12/29/2017 4:56:58 AM PST by SteveH
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To: LegendHasIt

The “dossier” is nonsense and for some strange reason its creator designed it to be exposed as nonsense. The front page classifies it as confidential. The front page also claims it contains a “sensitive source.” Noone would classify a sensitive source as confidential.


50 posted on 12/29/2017 5:03:05 AM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: Maris Crane

One more thought on post 5, concerning believability of the dossier:

IF TRAINED, VETERAN, SMARTY PANTS FBI, BELIEVED THAT OUTRAGEOUS REPORT, WE REALLY NEED SOME CHANGES IN THAT DEPARTMENT.

WOW, THE WORD PUTZ CAN BE REPLACED WITH the word “McCabe” , who by the way, looks kind of ....dumb.


51 posted on 12/29/2017 5:08:02 AM PST by Maris Crane (`)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Trump needs to take a fire hose to the FBI. And get someone who won’t fall asleep on the job at DOJ...


52 posted on 12/29/2017 5:10:03 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: LegendHasIt

I no longer think so, and I once had a Junior G-man badge.


53 posted on 12/29/2017 5:22:13 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Misleading headline; cross that writer off my list ...


54 posted on 12/29/2017 5:23:16 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I think it’s because if they say it’s false they need to correct the record with the judge... Which invalidates the Fisa warrants. Means Flynn gets to appeal and rescind his guilty plea. And they get sued too and agents could go to jail.

They will never admit it was false.


55 posted on 12/29/2017 5:43:54 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: newfreep

The FBI dossier was used for the FISA warrant to surveil Trump so the FBI has to maintain it is legit to avoid legal ramifications.


Nailed it.


56 posted on 12/29/2017 5:55:32 AM PST by Flick Lives (https://goo.gl/GxGKQh)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Yep - and when the LSM now says because McCabe says, or doesn’t say something, it means “The FBI” has that as its opinions, you know they are flailing....


57 posted on 12/29/2017 5:59:40 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: newfreep

Thank you. This is the only reason, if they were to ever be honest, they stand by it.


58 posted on 12/29/2017 5:59:47 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Diogenesis
Only a handful of Americans, on the coasts, find the FBI still credible. They murder Truth, justice, and apparently witnesses, too.


From what I have been reading, this is the new American Way.
59 posted on 12/29/2017 6:09:18 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: mad_as_he$$

Me also and by extension ALL democrats. 8 years of Obama put the end to any association with democrats. Even up to and including the Clinton (whom i loathe) and Bush years I had democrat friends and politics was rarely an issue with them. But the full vulgar and evil nature of that party is now on full display and I consider them mortal enemies.


60 posted on 12/29/2017 6:15:52 AM PST by Bonemaker
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