Debunking Republicans' False Narrative on the Steele Dossier

I get to educate you a third time in one day? <happy sigh>

Yes, the Trump administration is attacking not only the most credible law enforcement institution in the entire world (the FBI), but also the entire American intelligence apparatus, which may not be the "best," depending on your measure (I would give that nod to the Mossad, personally), but is certainly the most extensive.

...only to spring an October surprise when "more emails" trickled out (from Russia) containing exactly nothing of probative value. Note that even after a year under a DoJ with 180 degrees of partisan difference between what you assume was in place before, not a single charge has been brought against Clinton. When not even an Alabama Republican in the Attorney General's chair can find enough evidence of wrongdoing for an indictment after an entire year, it is clear that your assumption that Clinton is a criminal is merely you (and those of your partisan ilk) showing your a$$.

In no way did the FBI ever attempt to rig the election, that is a HUGE pile of bullsh!t.

Yet another turd from Bullshit Mountain.

Are you freaking serious? The FBI tried to over throw Trump? This is a turd the likes of which even Randy Marsh would be proud...

Obama did no such thing.

They weren't spying on Trump, they were spying on Russians and people in contact with Russians.

The only person you could honestly say got "attacked" before the election was Clinton, when the news dropped of "more email" mere days before the election. I know, you're not interested in honesty.

This is just a repeat of the massive turd illustrated above.

No, the one doing the attacking is Trump, boy.

You're the disgusting one, willing to believe anything that some bullshit artist pundit lines up for you to parrot.

Yes, it has been. Three loads of manure, properly labeled and debunked. I truly can't wait for you to crawl out from under that rock again.

 

Well, now the testimony is available... I can now see why republicans were not interested in the transcripts becoming public.

 

This speaks to the question as to whether the "dossier" started the investigation into trump... and whether there was a source inside trump's organization...

 

btw, Senator Feinstein with the "payback is a b!@#h" to the republican senate leadership...

 

It's interesting that the transcript was not released earlier. I'm thinking it's typical that these are held private for the time being because of an active investigation, and that it was only released because ... well, better to just read it quote yourself. Bad bad GOP for playing politic with an active and important investigation.

“The American people deserve the opportunity to see what he said and judge for themselves,” Ms. Feinstein said. “The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice. The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”

 

It would be typical if the RNC leadership wasn’t running a disinformation campaign against the testimony. They weren’t just hiding the transcript from the public. Republican leadership was actively, publicly undermining the testimony and the credibility of those who testified as the active criminal and intelligence investigation continued. It was released to counter the rabid attacks against Mueller, Fusion GPS, Steele, and the Russian election interference investigation.

Republicans have been selectively leaking and making false insinuations about the motives of those investigating the Trump campaigns behavior and Trump's behavior with respect to Russia.

 

Why would the FBI tell Steele details of their investigation?

That would be a serious ethical violation.

 

no, the judge was misled/lied to

Comey said under oath the information in the dossier was unverified, any judge knowing that would not have approved a wiretap

if an unverified dossier commissioned by the Clinton campaign was used to get a wiretap on the Trump campaign (with help from people in DoJ), that's a massive scandal

which is why the media/Obama DoJ black hats are backtracking so fast, now saying the dossier was not important

 

Felix Sater? Really? He is likely a rat... he is a known money launderer and is a convicted felon I believe. He was known in NY circles.

 

Yea, and that will continue. They knew this could be released and they didn't care. Their calculus is enough will believe the bs, and that's certainly look true of trump supporters. Attack on Mueller, FBI, process, whatever in the way will continue while turning a blind eye on the potential crimes (we are far pass unethical, full of conflicts, full of lies, completely unfit Trump and his people) here.

 

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Ha ha! Nope.

I enjoy how you insist that the dossier is "unverified" (you either don't know what HUMINT is or you are a liar; based on your record I'll assume ignorance rather than deviousness) (but of course to date Steele's work has been corroborated in every possible way) yet want to feign outrage when - who was it again? Democrats? No! Obama black hats, of course - sorry, when Obama black hats, in your fantasy world, distance themselves from the intelligence. Which no one is doing.

 

Rarely proud of my CA senator, but DiFi did the right thing here.

Let the full-volume GOP/FOX smear of Fusion begin/continue.

That bit on Russia approaching McCain makes no sense to me. He'd be the last person they'd have a chance with, but maybe they wanted to probe the hard boundary of possibility.

 

Also, is anyone surprised by organized crime links? Even his slop-carriers have to recognize that 45 is just a more clever, less cross-eyed, better sprinting S Seagal.

 

That would depend on which details they shared. If they wanted to use some of Steele's contacts, they might be willing to share some of their own information.

 

The FBI could have been lying to cover their incompetence.

 

That is a pretty big if.

 

The FBI was pro-Trump? The Great Sean Hannity disagrees.