INTERESTING TWIST on STEEL DOSSIER - Cyber-security experts hired by the Senate Intelligence Committee to write on how Russian social media accounts helped Trump beat Clinton themselves created fake Russian social media accounts
1. The Steele dossier plays a central role in Robert Mueller’s probe. In the unredacted portions of Rod Rosenstein’s memo outlining Mueller’s scope are allegations that Paul Manafort colluded with Russian officials in the 2016 race.
2. That claim is found in no other known document but the dossier.
It remains unclear whether further dossier allegations are in the redacted portions of the scope memo.
3. With Mueller in charge, the dossier based FISA warrant on Carter Page was renewed a third, and final, time in June 2017. It expired in September, when confidential human source and nebulous while corpulent Stefan Halper broke off regular communications with Page.
4. Interestingly, FBI’s monitoring of Carter Page for nearly a year, with access to his electronic communications prior to the warrant, Mueller has brought no charges against the former Navy officer alleged in the dossier to be at the center of a criminal conspiracy.
5. Even as prominent and early collusion theory promoter journalist Michael Isikoff now questions its probity, many still contend that Steele’s reports have not been “disproven.” Basing FISA on reports that aren't yet disproven is a travesty of the process itself.
6. The dossier model has given rise to similar operations, joining the press, political operatives, and intelligence officials, not all of them American, targeting Trump policies. The circular reporting used in the dossier has become a template for others.
7. The murder of Arab intelligence operative, WaPo contributor, Jamal Khashoggi was used as a platform by Turkish intelligence, Qatar, and U.S. operatives to advance a campaign through the press, with WaPo playing a leading role, against administration’s pro-Saudi policies.
8. Dem officials teamed with the media to thwart Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, also using an FBI investigation as a political tool. Again circular reporting, and "not yet disproven allegations" played a central role.
9. Cyber-security experts hired by the Senate Intelligence Committee to write on how Russian social media accounts helped Trump beat Clinton themselves created fake Russian social media accounts to dirty the GOP Senate candidate in last year’s special Alabama election.
11. "It is now accepted journalistic practice to print, and reprint, any garish fantasy so long as it’s layered with Russian intrigue & Trump treason. Even as rest of the country sees an institution that has made itself a laughing stock, the press salutes itself for its bravery"
13. According to Comey’s recent testimony, James Clapper ordered the briefing. The former director of national intelligence then tipped off CNN, which later hired him as a commentator.
15. I wrote about David Kramer, John McCain and the dossier some time ago.
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1. David J Kramer:
The guy who is the key in linking John McCain to the Trump-Russia "Dossier". By now if you are not familiar with the dossier or the "Circle of Filth" you are welcome to partake of my voluminous and somewhat odium inducing…
16. "The press didn’t report it because press is part of the operation, the indispensable part. None of it would've been possible, & certainly wouldn’t have lasted two years, had media not linked arms with spies, cops, & lawyers to relay a story first spun by Clinton operatives"