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Gutter politics.
Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier
By Adam Entous, Devlin Barrett and Rosalind S. Helderman
October 24, 2017
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to the people.
Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Prior to that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC through the law firm continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.
Fusion GPS gave Steele’s reports and other research documents to Elias, the people familiar with the matter said. It is unclear how or how much of that information was shared with the campaign and DNC, and who in those organizations was aware of the roles of Fusion GPS and Steele. One person close to the matter said the campaign and the DNC weren’t informed of Fusion GPS’s role by the law firm.
The dossier has become a lightning rod amid the intensifying investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia. Some congressional Republican leaders have spent months trying to discredit Fusion GPS and Steele, and tried to determine the identity of the Democrat or organization that paid for it.
Trump tweeted as recently as Saturday that the Justice Department and FBI should “immediately release who paid for it.”
Elias and Fusion GPS declined to comment on the arrangement. Spokespersons for the Clinton campaign and the DNC had no immediate comment.
Some of the details about Fusion GPS’s work are included in a Oct. 24 letter sent by Perkins Coie to a lawyer representing Fusion GPS telling the research firm it was released from a client confidentiality obligation. The letter was prompted by a legal fight over a subpoena for Fusion GPS’s bank records.
People involved in the matter said they would not disclose the dollar-amounts paid to Fusion GPS, but said the campaign and the DNC shared the cost.
Steele previously worked in Russia for British intelligence. The dossier is a compilation of reports he prepared for Fusion. The dossier alleged that the Russian government collected compromising information about Trump and the Kremlin was engaged in an active effort to assist his campaign for president.
U.S. intelligence agencies later released a public assessment which asserted that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to aid Trump. The FBI has been investigating whether any Trump associates helped the Russians in that effort.
Trump has adamantly denied the allegations in the dossier and has dismissed the FBI probe as a witch hunt.
Fusion GPS’s work researching Trump began during the Republican presidential primaries when the GOP donor paid for the firm to investigate the real estate tycoon’s background.
Fusion GPS did not start off looking at Trump’s Russia ties, but quickly realized that those relationships were extensive, according to the people familiar with the matter.
When the Republican donor stopped paying for the research, Elias, acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, agreed to pay for the work to continue.
The Democrats paid for research, including by Fusion GPS, because of concerns that little was known about Trump and his business interests, according to the people familiar with the matter.
These people said it is standard practice for political campaigns to use law firms to hire outside researchers in order to ensure their work is protected by attorney-client and work product privileges.
The Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie $5.6 million in legal fees from June 2015 to December 2016, according to campaign finance records, and the DNC paid the firm $3.6 million in “legal and compliance consulting’’ since Nov. 2015 — though it’s impossible to tell from the filings how much of that work was for other legal matters and how much of it related to Fusion GPS.
At no point, these people said, did the Clinton campaign or the DNC direct Steele’s activities. They described him as a Fusion GPS subcontractor.
Some of Steele’s allegations began circulating in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2016 as the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into possible connections between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Around that time, Steele shared some of his findings with the FBI.
After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.
The dossier was published by Buzzfeed News in January. Fusion GPS has said in court filings that it did not give Buzzfeed the document.
Officials have said the FBI has confirmed some of the information in the dossier. Other details, including the most sensational accusations, have yet to be verified and may never be.
Current and former U.S. intelligence officials say Steele was respected by the FBI and the State Department for earlier work he performed on a global corruption probe.
In early January, then-FBI Director James B. Comey presented a two-page summary of Steele’s dossier to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump.
In May, Trump fired Comey, which led to the appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel investigating the Trump-Russia matter.
Congressional Republicans have tried to force Fusion GPS to identify the Democrat or group behind Steele’s work, but the firm has said that it would not do so, citing confidentiality agreements with its clients.
Last week, Fusion GPS executives invoked their constitutional right not to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. The firm’s founder, Glenn Simpson, had previously given a 10-hour interview to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Over objections from Democrats, the Republican leader of House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), subpoenaed Fusion GPS’s bank records in order to try to identify the mystery client.
Fusion GPS has been fighting the release of its bank records. The judge in the case could issue a decision as early as Tuesday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.813fefbc2d92
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Disgusting.
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I like this one.......
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/24/nyt-reporter-clinton-campaign-lawyer-vigorously-denied-being-behind-dossier/
Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias “vigorously” denied his involvement in the anti-Trump dossier that has made up the substance of the Russian collusion allegations, New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said.
Elias’ denial appears to have been intentionally misleading in light of new reporting from The Washington Post that Elias hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Elias reportedly hired Fusion to dig up dirt on Trump as part of a project that became the Trump dossier. (RELATED: Clinton Campaign And DNC Funded Trump Dossier)
“When I tried to report this story,” Vogel said of the Post report, “Clinton campaign lawyer [Marc Elias] pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.'”
Another NYT reporter, Maggie Haberman, similarly accused Democrats of sanctimoniously lying about their funding of the Trump dossier.
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“Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year,” Haberman wrote on Twitter, linking to the Post’s report.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC reportedly took over funding Fusion GPS in April 2016. A still-unknown Republican donor initially began funding the opposition research firm’s investigation of Trump up until that point. (RELATED: The Search For Fusion GPS’ Mysterious Republican Client)
Tags: Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton, Marc Elias, Russia, Trump Dossier
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbis-political-meddling-1508883468
Let’s give plausible accounts of the known facts, then explain why demands that Robert Mueller recuse himself from the Russia investigation may not be the fanciful partisan grandstanding you imagine.
Here’s a story consistent with what has been reported in the press—how reliably reported is uncertain. Democratic political opponents of Donald Trump financed a British former spook who spread money among contacts in Russia, who in turn over drinks solicited stories from their supposedly “connected” sources in Moscow. If these people were really connected in any meaningful sense, then they made sure the stories they spun were consistent with the interests of the regime, if not actually scripted by the regime.
The resulting Trump dossier then became a factor in Obama administration decisions to launch an FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, and after the election to trumpet suspicions of Trump collusion with Russia.
We know of a second, possibly even more consequential way the FBI was effectively a vehicle for Russian meddling in U.S. politics. Authoritative news reports say FBI chief James Comey’s intervention in the Hillary Clinton email matter was prompted by a Russian intelligence document that his colleagues suspected was a Russian plant.
OK, Mr. Mueller was a former close colleague and leader but no longer part of the FBI when these events occurred. This may or may not make him a questionable person to lead a Russia-meddling investigation in which the FBI’s own actions are necessarily a concern.
But now we come to the Rosatom disclosures last week in The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress.
Here’s another story as plausible as we can make it based on credible reporting. After the Cold War, in its own interest, the U.S. wanted to build bridges to the Russian nuclear establishment. The Putin government, for national or commercial purposes, agreed and sought to expand its nuclear business in the U.S.
The purchase and consolidation of certain assets were facilitated by Canadian entrepreneurs who gave large sums to the Clinton Foundation, and perhaps arranged a Bill Clinton speech in Moscow for $500,000. A key transaction had to be approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Now we learn that, before and during these transactions, the FBI had uncovered a bribery and kickback scheme involving Russia’s U.S. nuclear business, and also received reports of Russian officials seeking to curry favor through donations to the Clinton Foundation.
This criminal activity was apparently not disclosed to agencies vetting the 2010 transfer of U.S. commercial nuclear assets to Russia. The FBI made no move to break up the scheme until long after the transaction closed. Only five years later, the Justice Department, in 2015, disclosed a plea deal with the Russian perpetrator so quietly that its significance was missed until The Hill reported on the FBI investigation last week.
For anyone who cares to look, the real problem here is that the FBI itself is so thoroughly implicated in the Russia meddling story.
The agency, when Mr. Mueller headed it, soft-pedaled an investigation highly embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton as well as the Obama Russia reset policy. More recently, if just one of two things is true—Russia sponsored the Trump Dossier, or Russian fake intelligence prompted Mr. Comey’s email intervention—then Russian operations, via their impact on the FBI, influenced and continue to influence our politics in a way far more consequential than any Facebook ad, the preoccupation of John McCain, who apparently cannot behold a mountain if there’s a molehill anywhere nearby.
Which means that Mr. Mueller has the means, motive and opportunity to obfuscate and distract from matters embarrassing to the FBI, while pleasing a large part of the political spectrum. He need only confine his focus to the flimsy, disingenuous but popular (with the media) accusation that the shambolic Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
Mr. Mueller’s tenure may not have bridged the two investigations, but James Comey’s, Rod Rosenstein’s , Andrew Weissmann’s , and Andrew McCabe’s did. Mr. Rosenstein appointed Mr. Mueller as special counsel. Mr. Weissmann now serves on Mr. Mueller’s team. Mr. McCabe remains deputy FBI director. All were involved in the nuclear racketeering matter and the Russia meddling matter.
Let’s stop here. All this needs to be sorted out, but not in a spirit of panic and hysteria. We are a prosperous, successful country, in pretty good shape right now by historical standards, even if our officials behave in the frequently dubious, self-interested way they always have.
But still: By any normal evidentiary, probative or journalistic measure, the big story here is the FBI—its politicized handling of Russian matters, and not competently so.
To put it bluntly, whatever its hip-pocket rationales along the way, the FBI would not have so much to cover up now if it had not helped give us Mrs. Clinton as Democratic nominee and then, in all likelihood, inadvertently helped Mr. Trump to the presidency.
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I would have be money on this.
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Libfags in total meltdown
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LOL my ass off at Trumptards pretending to be offended by the gutter
I hope all you delicate snowflakes made it safely to your fainting couch
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LOL my ass off at Trumptards pretending to be offended by the gutter
I hope all you delicate snowflakes made it safely to your fainting couch
Is that is?
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Yes it feels nice to actually see what we all presumed to be.
Straw man has got some serious mental health problems or is trolling.
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So it was the Clintons and the rest of the Dems who colluded with Russia to try to influence the presidential election in their favor, and they still lost.
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So it was the Clintons and the rest of the Dems who colluded with Russia to try to influence the presidential election in their favor, and they still lost.
It's way more than that. The Clinton's paid for the phony dossier (which contained so much unverified and demonstrably false information that none of the major news outlets would touch it) and passed it along to "bruised brain" John Mccain and Barak Hussein Osama. Osama uses the phony dossier as a pretext to obtain a FISA warrants and spy on everyone in Trump's innner circle-- i.e.: The susan rice unmasking scandal. Mccain passed the phony dossier along to Comey. The ficticious dossier is used as a pretext to open a criminal investigation into members of the Trump team. Comey's firing prompts likeminded swamp rats in Congress to proclaim that he was sacked due to his involvement in the Russia probe (which originates with the fake dossier). This clears the way for the appointment of "independent counsel" and the recussal of Jeff Sessions. In the end, the fake dossier is what led to the current state of affairs.
Despite all of this, the Clinton's managed to expose themselves in a massive kickback scandal and Trump remains untouchable.
All of you left wing cockgobblers can suck it! MAGA
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LOL my ass off at Trumptards pretending to be offended by the gutter
I hope all you delicate snowflakes made it safely to your fainting couch
LMFAO at libfags last grasp hoping to bring down Trump is going away just like that.
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It's way more than that. The Clinton's paid for the phony dossier (which contained so much unverified and demonstrably false information that none of the major news outlets would touch it) and passed it along to "bruised brain" John Mccain and Barak Hussein Osama. Osama uses the phony dossier as a pretext to obtain a FISA warrants and spy on everyone in Trump's innner circle-- i.e.: The susan rice unmasking scandal. Mccain passed the phony dossier along to Comey. The ficticious dossier is used as a pretext to open a criminal investigation into members of the Trump team. Comey's firing prompts likeminded swamp rats in Congress to proclaim that he was sacked due to his involvement in the Russia probe (which originates with the fake dossier). This clears the way for the appointment of "independent counsel" and the recussal of Jeff Sessions. In the end, the fake dossier is what led to the current state of affairs.
Despite all of this, the Clinton's managed to expose themselves in a massive kickback scandal and Trump remains untouchable.
All of you left wing cockgobblers can suck it! MAGA
That's fooked up.
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It's way more than that. The Clinton's paid for the phony dossier (which contained so much unverified and demonstrably false information that none of the major news outlets would touch it) and passed it along to "bruised brain" John Mccain and Barak Hussein Osama. Osama uses the phony dossier as a pretext to obtain a FISA warrants and spy on everyone in Trump's innner circle-- i.e.: The susan rice unmasking scandal. Mccain passed the phony dossier along to Comey. The ficticious dossier is used as a pretext to open a criminal investigation into members of the Trump team. Comey's firing prompts likeminded swamp rats in Congress to proclaim that he was sacked due to his involvement in the Russia probe (which originates with the fake dossier). This clears the way for the appointment of "independent counsel" and the recussal of Jeff Sessions. In the end, the fake dossier is what led to the current state of affairs.
Despite all of this, the Clinton's managed to expose themselves in a massive kickback scandal and Trump remains untouchable.
All of you left wing cockgobblers can suck it! MAGA
Libfags live in a bubble
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LOL at Trumptards pretending the info in this dossier has been proven false
Like all other right wing bullshit they just make that claim and assume we should all just believe it
Someone here please post the entire contents of the dossier and the proof that each claim is proven false
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from Bums first post on this thread
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to the people.
Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Prior to that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.
So Fusion GPS was funded by an unknown GOP client prior to getting money from a lawyer being paid for by Clinton?
If Clinton somehow paid for this dossier then why didn't she get a copy or even know anything about it?
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from Bums first post on this thread
So Fusion GPS was funded by an unknown GOP client prior to getting money from a lawyer being paid for by Clinton?
If Clinton somehow paid for this dossier then why didn't she get a copy or even know anything about it?
So I guess what you're saying is everyone in the media was wrong about this.....except you. lmao
What part of that dossier about Trump was true with his ties to the Russians? I don't think you even understand whats been going on....minion.
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So I guess what you're saying is everyone in the media was wrong about this.....except you. lmao
What part of that dossier about Trump was true with his ties to the Russians? I don't think you even understand whats been going on....minion.
you guessed wrong again as usual dipshit
my questions are quite clear and simple to understand
1. If Hillary was paying for this why didn't she get a copy
2. (not really a question) - Per Faux News - an unknown GOP candidate initiated and funded Fusion GPS research into Trump
Personally, I think the entire dossier should be released to the public
You and I can agree on that...right?
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Personally, I think the entire dossier should be released to the public
You and I can agree on that...right?
Huffington Post
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Huffington Post
what about them?
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you guessed wrong again as usual dipshit
my questions are quite clear and simple to understand
1. If Hillary was paying for this why didn't she get a copy
I'm sure there are copies. What matter would it make?
2. (not really a question) - Per Faux News - an unknown GOP candidate initiated and funded Fusion GPS research into Trump
Doesn't matter, the bottom line is Clinton kept paying for it to release false information regarding Trump
Personally, I think the entire dossier should be released to the public
You and I can agree on that...right?
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DOJ just released the gag order on the FBI informant. :D
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you're asking "what matter it would make if there are copies"
Clinton never received the dossier and she didn't "release" the info
No proof yet provided that the info is false
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DOJ just released the gag order on the FBI informant. :D
This is a good thing
Trump and Trumptards are all in favor of this?
right?
Let's get all this shit out in the open and find out if the contents are true or not
You're all for finding out the truth
right?
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This is a good thing
Trump and Trumptards are all in favor of this?
right?
Let's get all this shit out in the open and find out if the contents are true or not
You're all for finding out the truth
right?
:D :D :D :D :D :D
Can't wait!!!
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:D :D :D :D :D :D
Can't wait!!!
so this is a good thing
right ?
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Here Are The 10 Most Important Reported Claims About The Steele Dossier On Russia
There's a lot of misinformation swirling about that shoddy dossier on Trump and Russia compiled by Christopher Steele. Here's what's actually been reported on the matter.
By Mollie Hemingway
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Last night the Washington Post reported that the infamous “Russia dossier” was partly funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The dossier’s inflammatory and unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump provided the framework for mainstream media treatment of the president for much of the last year and fueled multiple investigations. Here are 10 things to keep in mind about the dossier.
1) Russian officials were sources of key claims in dossier
We’re in the midst of media frenzy over Russian disinformation campaigns, particularly as they apply to the 2016 election. It is worth noting that the sources of the “Russia-Trump dossier” were senior Russian officials:
Source A—to use the careful nomenclature of his dossier—was ‘a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure.’ Source B was ‘a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin.’
2) No, the Russian dossier was not initially funded by Republicans
When the news broke that the Clinton campaign and the DNC were admitting partial responsibility for the Russia dossier, journalists acted like they’d presented it as a Clinton campaign operation all along. They also claimed it was initially funded by a Republican.
Incorrect. And Tapper took the tweet down when the error was pointed out. There is no evidence that a Republican donor or Republican campaign was ever involved with the Russian dossier. Fusion GPS claimed to reporters (though they did not provide evidence) that a Republican funded separate opposition research on Trump, dealing with his business interests. But as the Washington Post itself reports, the dossier did not exist until after the Democrats hired Fusion GPS:
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
3) The dossier is chock full of discredited information
Journalists who are friendly with Fusion GPS and opponents of the Trump administration claim, without any evidence of any kind beyond anonymous sources’ vague say-so, that the dossier has parts that were “verified.” That could mean something as simple as the parts about Russia trying to find information about Trump, or about Trump affiliates having friendly business relations with Russians. We have no evidence to suggest that anything significant from the dossier has been verified. And we don’t know how much, if any, was actually deliberate disinformation from the Russian government sources.
We have reports that the freelance spy who put together some of the information in the dossier was paying Russians for their information and used intermediaries. Former acting CIA director and Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate Michael Morrell said this was discrediting:
‘Then I asked myself, why did these guys provide this information, what was their motivation? And I subsequently learned that he paid them. That the intermediaries paid the sources and the intermediaries got the money from Chris. And that kind of worries me a little bit because if you’re paying somebody, particularly former [Russian Federal Security Service] officers, they are going to tell you truth and innuendo and rumor, and they’re going to call you up and say, ‘Hey, let’s have another meeting, I have more information for you,’ because they want to get paid some more,’ Morrell said.
Far from being “verified,” the dossier is better described as demonstrably false. That includes getting basic facts about Russia wrong, making claims — such as the claim that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen met with Federation Council foreign affairs head Konstantin Kosachev in Prague — that are verifiably wrong, making cartoonishly outlandish claims about finances, and various other problems.
4) The dossier was used as a basis for wiretaps on American citizens
In March, Washington Post used anonymous sources to report the FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to spy on U.S. citizen Carter Page, an unpaid and informal adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, as part of an investigation into links between Russia and the Trump campaign. CNN used anonymous sources to report that the infamous “golden showers” dossier was used as part of the justification to win approval to monitor the Trump associate.
A Clinton campaign opposition research operation using information or disinformation from top Russian intelligence officials was used by the FBI, these sources say, to enable spying on an opposing political party’s campaign.
5) The FBI also paid for the dossier
Last week, Donald Trump tweeted:
Fusion GPS was working on behalf of Russians while working on the dossier, but they claim, without providing evidence, that they kept their other Russia work separate from their Trump-Russia dossier work. Democrats released their involvement to friendly journalists at the Washington Post last night. When Trump asked about the FBI, many political journalists feigned shock and outrage that he would make such a claim.
They should not have. Their outlets had already reported that the FBI had tried to pay for the dossier and had, in fact, reimbursed expenses for the dossier. We do not know if those expenses include the payments to the Russian officials for salacious stories on Republican nominee for president Trump.
The FBI has resisted all oversight by congressional committees looking into the FBI’s role in funding and use of the dossier. Perhaps the agency is worried it will be revealed that a FISA court judge was misled about the provenance of the dossier. Perhaps the agency is worried about light shining on its use of the Clinton campaign operation to spy on Trump affiliates.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is backing House Intelligence Committee efforts to learn more about FBI’s handling of the dossier.
6) Dossier publisher Fusion GPS works with shady outfits
At a July hearing, Senate Judiciary members were told Fusion GPS helped advocate the interests of corrupt Russian and Venezuelan officials while hiding its foreign work from federal authorities.
Fusion GPS has been accused of illegally working as an undisclosed foreign agent and is currently refusing to comply with federal subpoenas for information on its foreign clients.
7) Fusion GPS’ ties to media are problematic
The principals at Fusion GPS are well-connected to mainstream media reporters. They are former journalists themselves, and know how to package stories and provide information to push narratives. They are, in fact, close friends with some of the top reporters who have covered the Russia-Trump collusion story.
Fusion GPS has placed stories with friendly reporters while fighting congressional investigators’ attempts to find out the group’s sources of funding. Fusion GPS leaders have taken the Fifth and fought subpoenas for information about the group’s involvement with Russia. Their close friendships with key reporters on these stories have paid huge dividends for the firm, although these friendships and cooperative relationships have not served the public well.
Fusion GPS was responsible for the dossier. But the group’s larger narrative push to reporters is even more influential, and a difficult story to unpack due to defensiveness, embarrassment, and outright media complicity.
8 ) Jim Comey personally briefed Trump on the dossier, shortly before CNN reported it
As confirmed by the Washington Post, the Russia-Trump collusion narrative was a Clinton campaign political operation. The dossier itself was shopped around by Fusion GPS a year ago to The New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, The New Yorker, and CNN, according to lawyers for the ex-spy who worked on the dossier. The dossier was so unverifiable that the only reporter to bite was from Mother Jones.
What really got the ball rolling on last year’s Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, then, was not the dossier itself but the briefing of it by Obama intelligence chiefs to President-elect Trump in January. Former FBI head Jim Comey admitted under oath that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked him to personally brief President Trump about this dossier. The fact of that meeting was quickly leaked to CNN.
Given the dossier’s many problems, was the entire purpose of the meeting to produce the leak that the meeting happened? No one was biting on the dossier and it needed legitimization by opponents of Trump. If the dossier was so shoddy that it was debunked in hours after BuzzFeed posted it in all its salacious glory, why brief the president and president-elect on it, much less leak it? What was the real purpose of that meeting, and that leak to CNN?
9) Mueller investigation spurred by dossier and illegal leaks from intelligence operatives about Trump
We know from previous reporting that the dossier of Russia-supplied information or disinformation was used by the FBI to secure a warrant to spy on an American citizen advising an opposing political party’s presidential campaign. We know that this dossier was funded at least in part by the Clinton campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the FBI. The firm that produced the report was itself funded by Russians.
We know that Comey briefed Trump on the dossier, and that this meeting was leaked almost immediately to CNN. We know that there were criminal leaks from intelligence officials regarding Trump associates having conversations with Russian counterparts.
We know that Trump was thrice told by Comey that he was not under investigation regarding Russia. And a year into the opposition-research-provoked Russia scare, we have no evidence of the Trump campaign committing treason by colluding with Russia.
Yet because of this dossier, and its selective use by intelligence agencies, we have a special prosecutor running a no-holds-barred investigation into Trump that, according to CNN, has gone into areas that have nothing to do with Russia or the 2016 election. We have two congressional investigations into alleged collusion of Trump and Russia. And we have had thousands of stories focused on supporting the Clinton campaign’s opposition research.
10) The Steele dossier was a Clinton/DNC-funded operation supported by the FBI and influenced heavily by Russian operatives in the Kremlin
The country has spent the last year with Obama intelligence officials, the media, and Democratic leaders pushing a narrative of Trump collusion with Russia to steal an election that was supposed to be won by Hillary Clinton. A meeting between Trump officials and a Russian who falsely promised dirt on Hillary Clinton is the best evidence — by far — to support this narrative.
Yet here we have the realization that the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and the FBI all worked wittingly or unwittingly with Russians to affect the results of the 2016 election. Far from just meeting with a Russian and not getting dirt on a political opponent, these groups wittingly or unwittingly paid Russian operatives for disinformation to harm Trump during the 2016 election and beyond.
Worse, these efforts perverted our justice system by forcing the attorney general to recuse himself for the crime of having served as a surrogate on the Trump campaign, spawning a massive, sprawling, limitless probe over Russia. These things are so much more damaging to the republic than a couple thousand dollars in ads on Facebook paid for by Russian trolls about a pipeline protest.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/25/top-10-things-to-know-about-dossier/
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Bum - why are you posting the same bullshit in two different thread
1. Russia were actively attempting to help Trump win so if they were going to make up shit about Trump it would be stuff that would be helpful to him. I have yet to see anyone show proof of who the source were. In fact no one in the public that I'm aware of even has the dossier
2. The GPS Fusion has already said the first person to fund this thing was from the GOP
3. The Clinton campaign and the DNC Did NOT admit partial responsibility for the Russia dossier.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/john-podesta-debbie-wasserman-schultz-trump-dossier/index.html
I'm not even going to bother with the rest of it since it "things to know" started out with a bunch of lies
I say let's get the entire dossier out the public and let's go over every single allegation and the sources and see what is true and what (if anything is false)
I'd be fine with that
I wonder how Trump would feel about that
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False - you know the jig is up on obama misdeeds - l
Bum - why are you posting the same bullshit in two different thread
1. Russia were actively attempting to help Trump win so if they were going to make up shit about Trump it would be stuff that would be helpful to him. I have yet to see anyone show proof of who the source were. In fact no one in the public that I'm aware of even has the dossier
2. The GPS Fusion has already said the first person to fund this thing was from the GOP
3. The Clinton campaign and the DNC Did NOT admit partial responsibility for the Russia dossier.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/john-podesta-debbie-wasserman-schultz-trump-dossier/index.html
I'm not even going to bother with the rest of it since it "things to know" started out with a bunch of lies
I say let's get the entire dossier out the public and let's go over every single allegation and the sources and see what is true and what (if anything is false)
I'd be fine with that
I wonder how Trump would feel about that
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FEC Complaint: Hillary for America & DNC Failure to Disclose
Oct 25, 2017
CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign committee violated campaign finance law. They failed to accurately disclose the purpose and recipient of payments for the dossier of research alleging connections between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia, effectively hiding these payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law.
http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/sites/default/files/10-25-17%20CLC%20DNC%20Clinton%20%28Filed%29.pdf
http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/document/fec-complaint-hillary-america-dnc-failure-disclose
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Bum - why are you posting the same bullshit in two different thread
1. Russia were actively attempting to help Trump win so if they were going to make up shit about Trump it would be stuff that would be helpful to him. I have yet to see anyone show proof of who the source were. In fact no one in the public that I'm aware of even has the dossier
2. The GPS Fusion has already said the first person to fund this thing was from the GOP
3. The Clinton campaign and the DNC Did NOT admit partial responsibility for the Russia dossier.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/john-podesta-debbie-wasserman-schultz-trump-dossier/index.html
I'm not even going to bother with the rest of it since it "things to know" started out with a bunch of lies
I say let's get the entire dossier out the public and let's go over every single allegation and the sources and see what is true and what (if anything is false)
I'd be fine with that
I wonder how Trump would feel about that