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The Steele Dossier Bacillus
National Review Online ^ | 7 January 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/07/2020 6:04:52 AM PST by lowbuck

In 2016, Hillary Clinton presidential candidate hired an ex-intelligence officer and foreign national, British subject Christopher Steele, to use Russian sources to find dirt (“opposition research”) on her then political opponent Donald Trump. So much for the worry about “foreign interference” in U.S. elections.

The public would take years to learn of the funding sources of Steele, because Clinton camouflaged her role through three firewalls: the Democratic National Committee; the Perkins-Coie legal firm; and Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS opposition-research firm.

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The Steele dossier resembles some sort of bacillus. Anyone who put currency into it was infected, and the contagion was passed on as the dossier made its rounds throughout the media and government. Those who were infected by it are now in the end-stages of career decline. And the only antidote to the infection — honest admission that the dossier was bogus and used for unethical and often illegal purposes — is apparently seen by the stricken as worse than the terminal disease.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fisa; steele; steeledossier; vdh; witchhunt
A well written summation of the hoax and key players. Worth the five minutes to read in full.
1 posted on 01/07/2020 6:04:52 AM PST by lowbuck
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To: lowbuck

Bookmark


2 posted on 01/07/2020 6:07:04 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: lowbuck

VDH really is a towering intellect


3 posted on 01/07/2020 6:07:51 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: lowbuck

It is treason. What will be done about it?


4 posted on 01/07/2020 6:08:24 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Sadly nothing. Some people are above the law.


5 posted on 01/07/2020 6:11:53 AM PST by FES0844
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To: silverleaf

Amen. And he’s an honest historian with towering credibility as well.


6 posted on 01/07/2020 6:21:33 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: lowbuck

Good article but I believe he left out the key co-conspirator and I don’t mean Susan rice.


7 posted on 01/07/2020 6:22:18 AM PST by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: lowbuck

Yawn. I enjoy VDH, but this is nothing we haven’t heard before, and still no one is held to account. Patience is wearing thin. Barr and Durham need to ****, or get off the pot. Are we supposed to froth at the mouth like Maddow’s audience waiting for the hammer to drop for another year or more?


8 posted on 01/07/2020 6:24:06 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: lowbuck
The Ukraine Hoax was just a means for the deep state Russian Collusion Hoax conspirators to set a back-fire. It won't work. It's all the same players working for the same goal.

High ranking SES-grade deep-staters are going to prison.

This is just the Ukraine Hoax (Russia 2.0) gang.


9 posted on 01/07/2020 6:24:48 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: FES0844

I have not given up on Durham by a long shot. He’s put pretty high-ranking corrupt FBI officials in prison before. (Boston Irish mob case)

Read this, it’s amazing.

Devin Nunes Tells Sara Carter: “ICIG Michael Atkinson is Under Active Investigation”…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/06/devin-nunes-tells-sara-carter-icig-michael-atkinson-is-under-active-investigation/?fbclid=IwAR0aoUWXqQ96Loi2FAxCya2GD-2a6XRfobBUdKgBADvjuDvqzlWp1G5VNog#more-180203


10 posted on 01/07/2020 6:27:11 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

He’s also an old style democrat! (At least that’s what he was the last he mentioned in his columns any party affiliation.)


11 posted on 01/07/2020 6:30:06 AM PST by Reily
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To: lowbuck

Wow, great account by VDH.


12 posted on 01/07/2020 6:30:14 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: lowbuck
Think of the paradox: While Clinton pounded president Trump for supposedly using Russians to win an election, she herself had used fraudulent Russian sources to obtain political advantage by smearing her opponent, apparently in the expectation that she would win the election and her modus operandi would never be discovered, or, even if Steele’s work were publicized and thus discredited, her own fingerprints would never appear — or no one would dare to question President Clinton.

Projection is their specialty.

13 posted on 01/07/2020 6:31:30 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: lowbuck
Yet if a judge is apprised that the evidence before him to support a federal surveillance warrant is based on political opposition research, and the dossier was related to candidate and then president Donald Trump, would it not be prudent to ask attorneys to name who had paid the dossier’s author?

Right, and give back the Bribe Money too??
14 posted on 01/07/2020 6:47:11 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: lowbuck
From the article concerning the submission of the Steele Dossier to the FISA Court:

“ None of the judges seriously probed government lawyers about the dossier before their court. Although they were told in a footnote that it was a product of opposition research, apparently none asked the nature of such sponsorship.”

The footnote reference is news to me. But VDH is simply the best so I’m certain he has a good source for that statement. Or maybe it’s old news that I just missed.

In any case it is certainly a further confirmation of The Rubber Stamp FISA Court Theory.

15 posted on 01/07/2020 6:48:33 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: lowbuck

There has to be a paper trail. Someone wrote a check to Steel, from a check to the campaign agency, from a check to the law firm, from the DNC,from likely Hillary. Hansen does a great job of making the complex easy to understand..


16 posted on 01/07/2020 6:54:32 AM PST by lurk
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To: lowbuck

The whole rotten plot is exposed in detail.

When, oh when, will we see heads on spikes?


17 posted on 01/07/2020 7:36:45 AM PST by DeplorablePaul (s)
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18 posted on 01/11/2020 8:11:11 AM PST by bitt (A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY)
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