(08-28-2018 03:42 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-28-2018 02:02 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Score another for the fake dossier.

Let's be careful about the "fake dossier" terminology. That opens you up to questions like, "What's fake about it?"

What it actually is, correctly described, is an unverified and/or uncorroborated dossier. Nobody that I have seen has asserted that every single detail has been independently verified or corroborated, and my general impression, from comments by Adam Schiff on down, is that signifiant portions of it have not been independently verified or corroborated (Schiff on CNN, "some of it has been corroborated").

The interesting thing is that, for purposes of introduction as evidence in a FISA proceeding, "fake" is the same as "unverified" or "uncorroborated." Exactly the same. Legally, neither of them is admissible in such a proceeding. Does that make anything produced pursuant to any warrant issued in such a proceeding "fruit of the poisoned tree"? Yep, pretty much.

So calling it "unverified" or "uncorroborated" has precisely the same legal effect, at least for FISA warrant purposes, as calling it "fake." Only difference is, "fake" puts the burden of proof on you, "unverified" or "uncorroborated" puts the burden on them. And there is nothing to indicate they can meet that burden.