[PJ] During his testimony before Congress in August, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson said that the FBI had a source inside the Trump campaign who gave credence to the infamous dossier the company created for the Democrats.
He repeated the claim in a New York Times op-ed on January 2.
But today, Fusion GPS is retracting that statement, saying that Simpson "mischaracterized" the source.
Washington Times:
Then suddenly, as quick as the headlines went up, some one close to Fusion was waving off reporters. Mr. Simpsonhad "mischaracterized" the source. It was not some one on the Trump inside, but apparently an Australian diplomat
He was featured in a Dec. 30 New York Times story as the source who tipped off the FBI. Campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos told him over drinks that a Russian-linked professor knew of "thousands" of Hillary Clinton emails in the hands of Moscow.
How Mr. Simpson knew of the diplomat last August was unclear. He would have known of him in January when he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in which he again told of an insider source.
"As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp," he wrote.
Moments after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, unilaterally released the transcript, the inside-source story spread, especially in London. The city is home base of Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who wrote the dossier.
In his testimony, Mr. Simpson told of Mr. Steele's meeting with FBI agents in Rome in September 2016. Mr. Steele told Mother Jones magazine he was trying to jump-start an investigation into President Trump.
Mr. Simpson testified, "Essentially what he told me was they had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source and that ‐ that they ‐ my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point ‐ that they believed Chris's information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization."
Simpson did not "mischaracterize" anything in his testimony or his Times op-ed. He stated flatly that the FBI told him they thought the information in the dossier was credible because they had a source in the Trump campaign.
It's impossible to overstate the damage done by Simpson's lies. They can "retract" anything they want, but the fact that they didn't do it for two weeks after the Times op-ed appeared and several days after the actual testimony was leaked by Feinstein shows that their narrative about the dossier is unraveling. The media made a huge deal of the FBI source who, they say, validated what was in the dossier. Now we know there was no FBI source at all -- just an Australian diplomat who spoke to a drunk Trump operative.
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Eritrea. Oddly enough, I have friends from there who assure me I don’t want to visit the country they left as soon as they could. They don’t use the term shithole, but it is strongly implied.
[Breitbart London] New Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) statistics show the number of white people at British universities is in decline, with minorities surging ahead.
The figures show there were 1,507,815 white students enrolled at all levels in 2012/13, but this fell to 1,459,735 in 2013/14 and 1,418,685 in 2014/15.
Numbers declined slightly again in 2015/16 to 1,417,300, before ticking up slightly in 2016/17 to 1,425,665 ‐ for an overall decline of around 5.5 per cent over a five-year period.
Meanwhile, the number of black, Asian, and other (including mixed race) students are up significantly across the board ‐ despite left-liberal politicians such as Labour's David Lammy continuing to push the narrative that minorities are disadvantaged due to institutional prejudice.
'Real Engineer' in the comment section writes about the transition of scholarships in the United States:
RealEngineer2 • a day ago
In the USA, to get my engineering undergrad and science post grad on scholarship (back when, now valued over $200,000), I had to score top percentile GRE, attain national sales leadership among peers during (private sector) internship (in NYC Financial District, arguably the toughest in the world), earn an undergrad 3.8 GPA or better, take math-intensive electives, and score top percentile in a competitive scholarship exam. Furthermore, if my grad GPA ever fell below 3.8, or if I didn't meet quota during internship… THE SCHOLARSHIP WAS FORFEITED.
Fast-Forward to 2018, THAT SAME SCHOLARSHIP I got is now awarded to any "special snowflake" who can convey a "Tale of Woe" associated in any way with "diversity" (heavily favoring foreigners and females regardless of GPA), all math requirements have been "suspended", GRE scores merely have to be "submitted", recipients now get a "bonus" semester overseas in the country of their choice- instead of proving earning potential in an internship, and are handed options for a "set aside" appointment to a federal career… 2 ended up at NASA. (After scoring PERFECT 100's on federal exams, I was turned down for federal employment, and went to the private sector)…
For every academic "social inconvenience", there's a White male to take down publicly. The 'entitlement sector' tends to vote democratic. What are your questions.
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GRE scores merely have to be "submitted", recipients now get a "bonus" semester overseas in the country of their choice- instead of proving earning potential in an internship, and are handed options for a "set aside" appointment to a federal career......
One student ended up going to Pakistan and eventually became president of the United States. His GRE scores and college transcripts are no longer available.
[BBC] The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was interrupted by a group of protesters while speaking at an event for the Fabian Society.
...old style champagne Socialists who were well-established in George Berrnard Shaw’s day. I had no idea they still existed...
The protesters, calling themselves the "White Pendragons", announced they had come to perform a "citizen's arrest" on Mr Khan.
When they were removed from the venue, the mayor said "at least I didn't get given a P45" - a reference to an incident involving Prime Minister Theresa May at the 2017 Conservative Party conference.
An organiser told the BBC the protestors were admitted because they bought tickets, and appeared to be a far-right group.
[DAWN] Authorities in northern China have demolished a Christian megachurch in a move denounced by a religious rights group as “Taliban-style persecution”.
China’s officially atheist Communist authorities are wary of any organised movements outside their control, including religious ones.
The huge evangelical Jindengtai (Golden Lampstand) Church, painted grey and surmounted by turrets and a large red cross, was located in Linfen, Shanxi province.
Its demolition began on Tuesday under “a city-wide campaign to remove illegal buildings”, the Global Times newspaper reported, quoting a local government official who wished to remain anonymous.
“A Christian offered his farmland to a local Christian association and they secretly built a church using the cover of building a warehouse,” the official said.
The local housing department had stopped construction of the church in 2009 when it was almost complete, he added. Several members of the Christian group were then jailed, according to the official.
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Guess I really can't find fault when I advocate blowing mosques.
[ABCNEWS.GO] "The anti-Trump book is sweeping all over the world so Trump is being massively humiliated worldwide," crowed Kim’s paper, optimistically adding that strong sales of the book "foretells Trump’s political demise."
While Kim has been on the receiving end of Trump’s most colorful intercontinental insults, which have ranged from from ’little rocket man’ to 'sick puppy,’ the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, a ’murderous regime’ according to the president, is a close second.
Apparently they’ve been reading Wolff’s work in Tehran too.
On Wednesday the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency, Iran’s state media, drew on Wolff’s work to make the case that Trump is unbalanced, and that the world should resist any U.S. effort to tear up the nuclear deal.
"The promises and attempts made by the U.S. president in the first year of his presidency have been increasingly encouraging the idea that he has some sort of mental problem," said the article. "Trump's pledge to rip up the July 2015 Iran nuclear deal is an example."
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So can it be inferred that Li'l Kim is a progressive liberal as well?
[ABC] A Republican senator said President Donald Trump did not use the word "s---hole" in reference to immigrants from Haiti and Africa in a meeting at the White House last week.
Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, a close ally of the president, told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" Sunday that reports have misrepresented the president's comments during a meeting on immigration on Thursday.
"I'm telling you he did not use that word, George," said Perdue, who was among the senators at the meeting with Trump. "And I'm telling you it's a gross misrepresentation."
Stephanopoulos pressed Perdue, saying that multiple sources have confirmed the president's language, of whom the most outspoken has been Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois.
"Multiple sources? There were six of us in the room," Perdue responded to Stephanopoulos. "I haven't heard any of those six sources other than Senator Durbin talk about what was said."
In a statement Friday, Sens. Purdue and Tom Cotton had said, "In regards to Senator Durbin's accusation, we do not recall the President saying these comments specifically…"
On "This Week" on Sunday, Perdue also seemed to question Sen. Durbin's intentions, saying "it is not the first time" that the Illinois senator has accused someone of inflammatory language.
[Ynet] Iran on Saturday lifted restrictions on the messaging app Telegram, the state news agency IRNA said, after blocking the popular service as security forces sought to contain the most widespread public protests in the country since 2009.
"An informed source announced that the filtering of the Telegram messenger has been ended and it is being used by users," IRNA reported.
Many Iranians access Telegram using virtual private networks (VPNs) and other tools to bypass government filtering of the Internet, residents said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[PJ] During his testimony before Congress in August, Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson said that the FBI had a source inside the Trump campaign who gave credence to the infamous dossier the company created for the Democrats.
