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CNN's reporting on the Trump-Russia dossier has left out at least one crucial fact: the close ties between the network and the opposition research firm at the center of the dossier controversy.
CNN's reporting on the dossier, led by justice correspondent Evan Perez, has been favorable to the firm, Fusion GPS, and hyped the dossier's credibility. Left out of Perez's reporting, which has relied largely on unnamed sources, is his personal closeness to Fusion GPS' operatives. Fusion has repeatedly been described in Senate testimonies as a smear-for-hire operation that manufactures misleading or false media narratives for its clients.
Glenn Simpson, the Fusion co-founder most often associated with the dossier, is used to working on stories with Perez. As reporters at the Journal, Perez and Simpson regularly co-authored stories on national security.
Another Fusion founder, Tom Catan, worked as a reporter for the Journal at the same time as Perez and Simpson. The third Fusion co-founder, Peter Fritsch, worked above Perez and Simpson as the senior national security editor.
Simpson and Fritsch left the WSJ in 2011 to launch Fusion. Perez jumped from the paper to CNN in 2013. Another longtime Journal reporter, Neil King, left the paper to join Fusion in December 2016.
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Friday morning the Clinton News Network was hard at work defending Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... , following a tense interview with Kellyanne Conway about the Russia-Uranium deal. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, political correspondent Dana Bash and anchors John Berman and Alisyn Camerota blasted Conway and the right for their supposed "double standard" on the White House’s involvement with Russia.
Even though the media has been largely ignoring the shocking new details uncovered by The Hill last week, on the Uranium One deal, the panel flipped the blame, accusing the right of bringing up the "discredited" story simply to distract from Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s ties with Russia. Like the network has been doing all week, they framed the new report as a conspiracy theory invented by conservatives simply "to criticize Hillary Clinton."
"There's an incredible double standard from the White House and Kellyanne Conway on a range of issues when it has to do with the Russian investigation," Berman declared, to start off the discussion on CNN’s New Day, 8am PST Friday.
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How did CNN discredit the Uranium story? Did they pooh-pooh it?
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Memo to CNN:
No one as yet has proven any of the allegations against Trump but we do know there were payoffs and considerable cash hit the Clinton Foundation...double standard? Yep, the queen of corruption and her pedophile, sexual predator husband got a pass from the FBI but the entire world seems to e=want to believe that Putin is pulling Trump's strings....
Does anyone truly believe that anyone but Melania pulls Trumps strings????
A federal grand jury in Washington on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, CNN reported, citing sources briefed on the matter.
The charges are sealed under orders from a federal judge, and it was not clear what the charges were, CNN said, adding that anyone facing charges could be taken into custody as soon as Monday.
US intelligence agencies concluded in January that Russia interfered in the election to try to help President Donald Trump defeat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton through a campaign of hacking and releasing embarrassing emails, and disseminating propaganda via social media to discredit her campaign.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Trump campaign officials colluded with those Russian efforts.
He is also examining other possible crimes, including obstruction of justice, money-laundering and tax evasion.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment to Reuters about the CNN report on Friday.
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The charges are sealed under orders from a federal judge, and it was not clear what the charges were, CNN said, adding that anyone facing charges could be taken into custody as soon as Monday.
The timing sure is suspicious. I'm guessing these "charges" are so he has some thread to hang onto when they come for his job.
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^ Remember, remember the 27th of September. Maybe?
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It's all in the timing. The dam must have been close to breaking on all the Clinton/Obama slime and corruption. What ever this turns out to be its purpose is to bury all the coming evidence Felonius von Pantsuit laid the state department bare for a price and Barky and Mueller knew it.
[The Hill] Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, is backing a petition that opposes the removal of Virginia's Confederate statues and monuments.
In an email to supporters Tuesday, Gillespie cast efforts to remove Confederate statues from public land as an attempt to erase history.
"My opponent, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam has promised to do everything he can to remove Virginia's Confederate monuments and statues if he is elected governor," Gillespie said in the email, referring to Democratic nominee Ralph Northam.
"I think we should keep them up," he added. "We should teach history ‐ NOT erase it."
Gillespie's support for the petition comes weeks after violence erupted at a rally organized by white nationalists to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., where one woman was killed and many others were injured when a car was driven into a crowd of counterprotesters.
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The issue has never been whether candidates to the right of the GOP incumbent can defeat him in a primary - sometimes they can, and sometimes they can't. It's whether these GOP insurgents can defeat their likely Democratic opponents. The jury will remain out on this question until early November next year.
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It's harder to beat the Democrat when your own party works against you, but they have done this again and again. McConnell and friends would rather have a Dem in the Senate than someone even nominally conservative.
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It might also be asked what the worth of a "respectable viable" GOPer victory is, if that "respectable viable" GOPer does what a Democrat would do when in office.
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Zhang Fei, I think it's better to give voters a choice and when you have a Democrat against a RINO that's not much of a choice. We need candidates who can speak very clearly about the differences between conservatives and liberals so that voters can truly understand the issues.
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In fairness, Heller dug his own grave with his back-and-forth on Obamacare. Maybe it's time to let Tarkanian run with the ball.
[BizPacReview] Imagine if President Trump stayed hidden in the White House because of threats made against him.
Florida congresswoman, Rep. Frederica Wilson, has not been seen in Washington, D.C. for days and it appears it’s all because of those Trump supporters.
The Democrat from Miami was all over the media last week condemning the president for a condolence call he made to the wife of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an Oct. 4 ambush in Niger. But after creating a torrential firestorm with her attacks, the lawmaker found herself the target of ongoing threats against her, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday.
Wilson last voted on Oct. 12, before a week-long break at the House, and has since missed 19 votes between Monday, Oct. 23 and Wednesday, Oct. 25, according to the Miami Herald.
In fact, a group photo of Congressional Democrats on the steps of the Capitol, wearing stickers with red cowboy hats in Wilson’s honor, was taken without the congresswoman present, the publication reported.
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Florida congresswoman, Rep. Frederica Wilson, has not been seen in Washington, D.C. for days and it appears it’s all because of those Trump supporters.
It must be true! After all, she is hiding out, isn't she?
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A perfect example of how the term "Yellow Dog Democrat" is still operative in the south. If she was anything except a Democrat, she wouldn't get elected as a dog catcher (Thank you Donald)
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SPOD: A perfect example of how the term "Yellow Dog Democrat" is still operative in the south.
It's diverse (i.e. black) voters casting ballots for diverse candidates. The 9:1 GOP to Dem diverse voting pattern also manifests itself in the South. The difference is that whites increasingly vote 7:3 or 8:2 for the GOP vs the Dems. If we can get that white voting pattern to propagate nation-wide, thanks to Democratic iconoclasm (i.e. removing statues of Confederate figures, as well as Washington, Jefferson and Columbus), the Dems will be out in the cold for a long, long time.
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