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2017-09-17 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Gowdy Wonders If Democrats Are ‘Fearful' Trump Dossier Is ‘A Piece Of Fiction'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-17 05:08|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#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|| 2017-09-17 05:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-09-17 06:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-09-17 06:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-09-17 10:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-09-17 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's slap some sanctions on 'em!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-17 11:04|| 2017-09-17 11:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-09-17 12:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-09-17 17:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Bingo, #4 Abu.

Posted by Barbara 2017-09-17 19:18|| 2017-09-17 19:18|| Front Page Top

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