In light of the events of the past week with Durham's investigation I came across this:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/10-times-t...-disproven

Somewhere in the heart of Ohio, a liquor store owner is smiling. In the past 4 years the media has helped put his kids and grandkids through college and allowed him to buy a McMansion and add on to the business.

I'm sure this will help booster sales as well.

I remember when Tom and Mach wanted me to get a ban for typing out * F A K E D O S S I E R * in a post.

(11-10-2021 04:05 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  I remember when Tom and Mach wanted me to get a ban for typing out * F A K E D O S S I E R * in a post.

They should have been banned for *R E A L D O S S I E R*

DOJ and FBI gave cover to Steele dossier source accused of lying

Quote:The Justice Department and the FBI continued defending their use of information from Christopher Steele’s main source, Igor Danchenko, even after interviews with the bureau during which special counsel John Durham says the Russian lied repeatedly.

Danchenko, a U.S.-based and Russian-born researcher, was charged “with five counts of making false statements to the FBI” that Durham claims he made about the information he provided to Steele for the dossier. The Durham indictment stated Danchenko lied to the FBI five times in 2017. He pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.

The efforts by the DOJ and the FBI to defend the credibility of Steele’s dossier and his source were notable in 2018, the year after Danchenko allegedly lied to the bureau, and in the midst of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Then-Assistant Attorney General John Demers told Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Rosemary Collyer in a July 2018 letter that Danchenko had been “truthful and cooperative” with the FBI. The DOJ official also defended the flawed FISA applications against Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

Demers told the FISA court: “The Government submits that the applications, read in light go this additional information, contain sufficient predication for the Court to have found probable cause that the target was an agent of a foreign power.”

The DOJ knew Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos repeatedly denied any Russia collusion in 2016 conversations with FBI confidential source Stefan Halper, denials not relayed to the FISA court.

“Even considering the additional information regarding Papadopoulos’ conversations with Source #2 [Halper] and others, and regarding Source #1 [Steele], the applications contained sufficient predication for the Court to have found probable cause that Page was acting as an agent of the Government of Russia,” Demers told the FISA court. “The FBI has reviewed this letter and confirmed its factual accuracy.”

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s December 2019 report undermined the dossier’s claims, and he criticized the DOJ and the FBI for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA warrants against Page and for the bureau's “central and essential” reliance on Steele’s dossier.

Horowitz said FBI interviews with Danchenko “raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting” and cast doubt on some of its biggest claims. Documents show the FBI had previously investigated Danchenko as a possible “threat to national security” due to alleged connections with Russian intelligence.

Collyer condemned the actions of the FBI as "antithetical to the heightened duty of candor" in the wake of the report.

In another instance, the FBI’s “Draft Talking Points” for a Senate Intelligence Committee briefing dated February 2018 includes further defenses of Steele and Danchenko.

The bureau pointed to interviews with Danchenko in January 2017, writing he “advised that several reports appeared to be derived from multiple sources, to include the information he provided to Steele as well as information that he had not collected,” and that Danchenko “did not cite any significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier.”

FBI notes of a January 2017 interview with Danchenko showed he told the bureau he “did not know the origins” of some of Steele's claims and “did not recall” other information that was in the dossier. He noted that much of what he passed along to Steele was “word of mouth and hearsay” and that some stemmed from a “conversation ... with friends over beers,” while the most salacious allegations may have been made in “jest.”

Horowitz concluded Danchenko “contradicted the allegations of a ‘well-developed conspiracy’ in” Steele’s dossier.

The FBI’s talking points also said they learned Steele was relying on a main source in October 2016, and the bureau provided a response to how speaking with Danchenko affected the FBI’s confidence in the dossier.

“At minimum, our discussions with [Danchenko] confirm that the dossier was not fabricated by Steele,” the FBI wrote. “Our discussions with [Danchenko] confirmed that he operates within high level academic and government circles, maintains trusted relationships with individuals who are capable of reporting on the material he collected for Steele, and that Steele and [Danchenko] utilized reasonably sound intelligence tradecraft.”

The FBI also claimed to senators it had "successfully protected from public disclosure the overwhelming majority of the individuals who contributed source reporting to the Steele Dossier." The alleged sources for Steele’s dossier have largely either been accused of lying, have denied being sources, or have otherwise backed away from the dossier.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, previous head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in August 2020 that the 2018 briefing demonstrated the FBI had misled the Senate about Danchenko and the dossier.

Later that month, the South Carolina Republican revealed Bill Priestap, the FBI's former head of counterintelligence, was the official he claims tried “whitewashing” the dossier to the Senate in 2018. Graham said he was turning the information over to Durham to investigate, calling it “potentially another crime.”

Priestap, the leader of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, wrote to the CIA to describe Steele as “reliable” as the FBI pushed to include Steele’s allegations in the 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian interference.

Nearly all of the signers of the Page FISA warrants — Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates , Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein , FBI Director James Comey, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — have now indicated under oath that they would not have signed off on the surveillance if they knew then what they know now.

Even more on the now fake dossier

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ru...-explained

How manyvtaxpayer dollars and wasted staff hours were spent on this by these liberal goons?

This is one of the primary reasons why the guilty in DC get off scot free.

(11-12-2021 11:34 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  How manyvtaxpayer dollars and wasted staff hours were spent on this by these liberal goons?

The Mueller thing was north of 60M ..... that was just a fraction of it probably.

So where we are is.... the effin FBI knowingly investigated what they absolutely 100% knew was a big fat lie

They did this why? As a political fishing expedition to see if they actually could find something on Trump.

People should be in prison and a few should be executed for treason.



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And yet, nothing of any real consequence will happen.

Some third rate flunkie like Danchecko will get 18 months of Club Fed and that'll be that.

Sullivans wife is counsel to the "moderate" Garland.

Lulz. Of course she is...

The Rewriting of History Begins After Bombshell Steele Dossier Revelations

Quote:Over the last two weeks, the Steele Dossier, which was pushed for years as a credible source of dirt on Donald Trump, has been completely discredited. While it’s been obvious for a long time that the dossier was unverified and full of false conspiracy theories, John Durham’s indictment has given us an eye into exactly how the sausage was made and put the last nail in the coffin.

Igor Danchenko, now indicted for lying multiple times to the FBI, was the chief source for Christopher Steele, but it was a Hillary Clinton operative who actually fed Danchenko many of the salacious claims.

And with those revelations have come the ritual rewriting of history. The Washington Post has begun to delete parts of past articles that discussed the Steele Dossier.

The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles, published in March 2017 and February 2019, that had identified a Belarusian American businessman as a key source of the “Steele dossier,” a collection of largely unverified reports that claimed the Russian government had compromising information about then-candidate Donald Trump.

The newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said The Post could no longer stand by the accuracy of those elements of the story. It had identified businessman Sergei Millian as “Source D,” the unnamed figure who passed on the most salacious allegation in the dossier to its principal author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

Of course, what the Post didn’t do was reveal who their fake news sources were from their original reporting. You’d think that when a source lies to you, that would be grounds to expose them in order to prevent it from happening again. But doing that would be too much of an admission of defeat for the Post, and a very public one at that.

Instead, we are getting relatively quiet editing of years old articles to make it seem as if the nation’s second-largest newspaper didn’t completely botch this story. That way, years from now, there’s no real record of their failure for people who are otherwise ill-informed. There’s something really sketchy about that, especially since Post reporters literally won Pulitzers for their garbage reporting on Trump and Russia.

Will anyone in the media pay a price? The answer is obviously no. For most of Trump’s presidency, the Trump-Russia hoax dominated the news. Journalists claimed bombshell after bombshell, only to have their stories and lying sources fall flat time and again. But their mission was accomplished. Trump is no longer president and his term was severely handicapped by a witch-hunt special counsel. That was always the goal, not accurate reporting.

In the end, nothing changes except a few articles long after the damage is already done.

(11-10-2021 04:05 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  I remember when Tom and Mach wanted me to get a ban for typing out * F A K E D O S S I E R * in a post.

And neither, along with all their buddies, have the balls to show up here and defend their slobberer in chief.

(11-12-2021 01:30 PM)maximus Wrote:  So where we are is.... the effin FBI knowingly investigated what they absolutely 100% knew was a big fat lie

They did this why? As a political fishing expedition to see if they actually could find something on Trump.

People should be in prison and a few should be executed for treason.



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I’d flip the switch.