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| 2018-01-15 |
| [National Review] Fusion GPS founder’s testimony shows how we got the collusion narrative . . . and why it won’t go away Someone with fourth-hand knowledge that the bank was robbed claims that Smith conspired ‐ er, I mean, colluded ‐ with the local organized-crime family to rob the bank. Jones figures it must be true because he heard it from a trusted friend, a former cop ‐ and you know those guys have great sources. Yet, Jones has no concrete evidence that it’s true. In fact, he can’t even prove that the mobsters had anything to do with the robbery, much less that Smith did. But Jones is an industrious investigative journalist. Long before the bank was robbed, he conducted months of in-depth research and came to a single, unalterable, unassailable conclusion: Smith is a really crappy guy. He is a grade-A louche with mafia business partners and a decades-long record of financial shenanigans that walk the razor’s edge of actionable fraud. Born into wealth, he puts on the airs of the self-made man. When he’s in town, hide the women away. If he says he’ll pay you for a job, get it in writing . . . and make sure he still needs you when it’s time to pay up. Better have a good lawyer on retainer, too, just in case. Smith’s books are undoubtedly cooked, but they’re better hidden than Jimmy Hoffa ‐ and yeah, you can bet he knows something about that, too. Here’s what totally infuriates Jones, though: Smith seems to skate from debacle to debacle not only unscathed but ever more audacious. If you knew what Jones knows, rather than what the public thinks it knows, you wouldn’t trust Smith to run a 7-Eleven ‐ yet, Smith sees himself as White House material! Do you feel the frustration, the indignation that Jones feels in our hypothetical? If you do, then you know what it’s like to be Glenn Simpson. The former Wall Street Journal reporter is a superb investigative journalist. More notoriously these days, he is the founder of Fusion GPS. It was he, in cahoots with his friend and collaborator, former British spy Christopher Steele, who orchestrated the compilation and dissemination of the so-called Steele dossier ‐ the fons et origo of the Trump‐Russia collusion narrative. We now know the dossier was covertly commissioned by the Clinton campaign, which dealt with Fusion through a layer of lawyers. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 why not disclose that misconduct and put the collusion chatter to rest? Because it would do no such thing. At this point "collusion" is a dog whistle increasingly heard only be the far left, a crowd in which one will find no current or prospective GOP voters or Trump supporters. A more interesting question is, "If Trump could make the collusion narrative go away tomorrow would he want to do so?" I doubt he would. My wager is that he's going to keep the narrative alive until the actions of the Obama-Clinton crime syndicate (e.g., Uranium One and the like) are too glaring to ignore then flip the script on them. That's a much stronger play if he simply allows Mueller and his fellow travelers to continue embarrassing themselves until it's time to put the real criminals under the microscope. Tough to argue against pursuing actual demonstrated collusion when we've wasted so much time & effort chasing shadows already. |
| Posted by: Fleaque Choque3910 2018-01-15 19:23 |
| #3 Oh by the way. Siting a "bad deal" President Trump took a pass on the new US Embassy ribbon cutting ceremony in London. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-15 15:02 |
| #2 Blackmail and Blackout That being the case, why doesn’t President Trump just expose it? Why doesn’t he tell the intelligence agencies to declassify the relevant data? If the Justice Department and FBI abused their intelligence-collection authority by seeking a FISA-court warrant based on unverified information, if they in any way gulled a federal judge into believing that Steele’s rumor-mongering was refined U.S. intelligence reporting, why not disclose that misconduct and put the collusion chatter to rest? Emphasis added. Possible scenario. I say again possible: On Thursday November 17th, 2016, NSA Director Mike Rogers traveled to New York and met with President-Elect Donald Trump. It is suspected the conversation had to do with illegal monitoring. The next day Trump's campaign team moved out of Trump Towers and took up residence elsewhere. As news of the meeting became public, calls for Admiral Rogers firing were reportedly bouncing all over D.C. Soetoro wisely took no action. If Admiral Rogers refused to participate in a community monitoring and collection effort, perhaps the "community" outsourced the signals collection effort to Christopher Steele's old employer. This might explain the reluctance of President Trump to push the issue. The long-standing conflict btwn CIA and NSA is well document and the coincidences of events are simply too coincidental to be coincidences. Add to that the proximity of the British consulate to Trump Towers. Just a tinfoil hat thought. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-15 14:25 |
| #1 We discussed Steele going into hiding, like Comey's friend did when they were named. Similar turds in the same deep bowl. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-01-15 14:12 |