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Gowdy Wonders If Democrats Are ‘Fearful' Trump Dossier Is ‘A Piece Of Fiction'
2017-09-17
[Daily Caller] Democrats are "fearful" that the Trump dossier is "a piece of fiction," one that the FBI used to form the basis of its investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.

That’s one theory that South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy is proposing for why Democrats are pushing back so hard against a GOP effort to get answers about the dossier from the FBI and Justice Department.

In an interview with The Daily Caller, the House Intelligence Committee member addressed claims from his Democratic colleagues and some in the media that he and his fellow Republicans are attempting to discredit the dossier and its author, former British spy Christopher Steele, in order to help Trump.

"I don’t know why anyone ‐ from [California Rep.] Adam Schiff, to Vanity Fair, to Rachel Maddow ‐ would not be curious whether or not the world’s premier law enforcement agency relied upon a dossier in connection with an investigation without vetting it," Gowdy told TheDC on Friday.

"For the life of me I don’t understand why they are focused on this," Gowdy says of the Democratic pushback, "unless they are fearful that the bureau did rely on a piece of fiction."

He was responding to Democrats’ criticism of a GOP-led effort to subpoena Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray for information about the dossier.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  Bingo, #4 Abu.
Posted by: Barbara   2017-09-17 19:18  

#8  I think it's now know the FBI bought the dossier than "somehow" it made it's way to the dems.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-09-17 17:58  

#7   The FBI neither confirms or denies that it made payments to the British spy who authored the dossier.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-09-17 12:47  

#6  Let's slap some sanctions on 'em!
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-09-17 11:04  

#5  B, if what Morris and McGannn say is true then it was the Brits who were attempting to interfere in our election.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-09-17 11:02  

#4  Fearful that it's fiction? Maybe a few of them are fearful...the rest already know.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-09-17 10:58  

#3  Steele's Trump dossier references a number of unnamed sources. None that I recall were Israeli. But that's precisely where the breakdown occurs. The extensive vetting of sources and the establishment of 'multiple source reporting' is crucial to establishing the reliability of the information.

Until validation of sources and reporting takes place, there is no intelligence, only information.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-09-17 06:42  

#2  For some reason I'm thinking "What if the source wasn't British but Israeli?".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-09-17 06:34  

#1  Dick Morris and Eileen McGannn - Rogue Spooks, The Intelligence War on Donald Trump., (comments 5 of 12), Chapter Four, What were the Brits up To? Pages 102-103.

Consider the following pieces of evidence (some have been explained above but are repeated to show the extensive reach of British involvement):

1. It was Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) who first warned the United States that the Russians had hacked the Democratic Pary's computers. Back in September 2015, long before the FBI and CIA knew anything about it or showed any interest in it, GCHQ was waving flags about Russian hacking. For a long time, the U.S. intel agencies did nothing about it.

2. During the campaign and even after, both MI6 and GCHQ routinely passed along classified intelligence information to the U.S. intelligence community about Trump's associates.

3. It was Christopher Steele, an ex-M16 spy who was responsible for the dossier that contained unsubstantiated, unreliable, but nevertheless explosive material about Donald Trump. Was Steele only a former M16 agnet? Bear in mind what the Russian embassy said, shortly after the details of the dossier were released: "M16 officers are never ex."

4. It was Steele who went to the FBI, without telling his American client, in July 2016 to tell them about the dossier and urge them to investigate Trump and Associates.

5. It was former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Andrew Wood - a business associate of Steel's - who first alerted Senator John McCain about the dossier and warned him about sthe danger that Trump might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail in the dossier was actually true.


In summary: The book suggests that the dossier was gaining little traction until put into the hands of Senator John McCain. The authors also suggest that (to name just a few) Trump was targeted due to his; support of Brexit and fear that Brexit would shut-off intelligence sharing with Europe, Trump's insistence that NATO was "obsolete" and member nations should "pay their fair share."

No probleem, I'll say it. "Follow the money."

The books contains page after page of supporting evidence refuting the validity of the dossier, interference in our presidential election, and collusion of our cousins.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-09-17 05:39  

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