Corroboration Zero - Dossier was always a joke

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  1. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Some excerpts below.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...t-steele-dossier-collusion-news-media-924944/

    ‘Corroboration Zero’: An Inspector General’s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke

    Horowitz ratifies the oft-denounced “Nunes memo.”

    Democrats are not going to want to hear this, since conventional wisdom says former House Intelligence chief Devin Nunes is a conspiratorial evildoer, but the Horowitz report ratifies the major claims of the infamous “Nunes memo.”

    As noted, Horowitz establishes that the Steele report was crucial to the FISA process, even using the same language Nunes used (“essential”). He also confirms the Nunes assertion that the FBI double-dipped in citing both Steele and a September 23, 2016 Yahoo! news story using Steele as an unnamed source. Horowitz listed the idea that Steele did not directly provide information to the press as one of seven significant “inaccuracies or omissions” in the first FISA application.

    Horowitz also verifies the claim that Steele was “closed for cause” for talking to the media, i.e. officially cut off as a confidential human source to the FBI. He shows that Steele continued to talk to Justice Official Bruce Ohr before and after Steele’s formal relationship with the FBI ended. His report confirms that the Steele information had not been corroborated when the FISA application was submitted, another key Nunes point.

    There was gnashing of teeth when Nunes first released his memo in January, 2018. The press universally crapped on his letter, with a Washington Post piece calling it a “joke” and a “sham.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Nunes for the release of a “bogus” document, while New York Senator Chuck Schumer said the memo was intended to “sow conspiracy theories and attack the integrity of federal law enforcement.” Many called for his removal as Committee chair.

    The Horowitz report says all of that caterwauling was off-base. It also undercuts many of the assertions made in a ballyhooed response letter by Nunes counterpart Adam Schiff, who described the FBI’s “reasonable basis” for deeming Steele credible. The report is especially hostile to Schiff’s claim that the FBI “provided additional information obtained through multiple independent sources that corroborated Steele’s reporting.”

    In fact, far from confirming the Steele material, the FBI over time seems mainly to have uncovered more and more reasons to run screaming from Steele, to wit:

    The “Steele dossier” was “Internet rumor,” and corroboration for the pee tape story was “zero.”


    The Steele report reads like a pile of rumors surrounded by public information pulled off the Internet, and the Horowitz report does nothing to dispel this notion.

    At the time the FBI submitted its first FISA application, Horowitz writes, it had “corroborated limited information in Steele’s election reporting, and most of that was publicly available information.” Horowitz says of Steele’s reports: “The CIA viewed it as ‘internet rumor.’”

    Worse (and this part of the story should be tattooed on the heads of Russia truthers), the FBI’s interviews of Steele’s sources revealed Steele embellished the most explosive parts of his report.

    The “pee tape” story, which inspired countless grave headlines (see this chin-scratching New York Times history of Russian “sexual blackmail”) and plunged the Trump presidency into crisis before it began, was, this source said, based a “conversation that [he/she] had over beers,” with the sexual allegations made… in “jest”!


     
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  2. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    All of these people and journalist in the video below are liars.

    It has been verified that nothing that comes our of Brennan's or Clapper's mouth can be trusted.

    If you believed anything about the dossier, you are a dumbass.

     
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  3. The entire mainstream media assured us it was genuine and Trump and his supporters were lying or delusional. That really did not age well.

    Never forget how much the mainstream media hate us.
     
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  4. Director of the FBI/Comey the Clown went over to the White House and directly threatened the President of the United States with fake dossier allegations in an attempt to hold on to his job.

    That was right out of J. Edgar Hoover's playbook. Hoover held on to his job for years by confronting all the power players with dirt that he had on them, but "not to worry, we are managing this."

    That whole obstruction charge by Comey against Trump is a complete crock. It's the other way round. Comey knew his job was at risk, because he was already known as a fuck-up from the Clinton investigation, so he tried to shake the President down. He should be in prison.

    The FBI was nothing more than an extension of the Clinton campaign while Comey was there. The tards will argue that Comey ended out hurting Hillary in the end so that counters that argument. NO. Comey was largely accused of being in the tank for Hillary especially after letting her off the hook with his illegal announcement which was not his to make. So as part of his defense he promised Congress that if any new evidence came up he would look at it and inform Congress. Then right before the election, Comey found out that McCabe had been sitting on the pile of emails that had been forwarded to him from the Southern District that came from the Weiner laptop/investigation. So Comey was fucked. He knew that if those came out AFTER the election he would be accused of hiding evidence from Congress. That's how that went down.

    But the FBI was 100% working for the Clinton campaign except for when Comey had to act fast to save his own arse and release the Weiner emails because he knew that they had been uncovered even though Andy had been sitting on them for three months waiting for the election to blow over.
     
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