Well it seems that things are falling apart, the centre is
not holding. There are those on
the left who will not abandon the “dossier” fiasco. As late as October 7, 2017 the Guardian
described it as “one of the most explosive documents in modern political history.” This “dossier” was an obvious fraud and
no one in the intelligence community believed otherwise. People who claimed it might possibly
have value were deceiving the public. They did this because it was the only
thing they had to justify an investigation of the Donald Trump campaign. According to the Wall
Street Journal the dossier “became a factor in Obama administration
decisions to launch an FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump
campaign.”
This batch of memos was circulated through the media and
intel community for months when BuzzFeed published the full document in January
2017. As long as it was not public
it could be vaguely referred to in order to support the charge that Trump was
owned by the Russians. Once it was
published it because obvious that it was a fraud. This is revealed on the first page. No experienced intelligence officer
would classify a Sensitive Source as Confidential. If he did he would be looking for a new job or possibly be
behind bars.
The other implausible claim in the document concerns the “golden
shower” allegations. 4Chan, an
imageboard website, has claimed responsibility for this hoax. Under the circumstances 4Chan has as
much or more credibility than the former heads of three of the major intel
agencies. They have not perjured
themselves in front of the U.S. Congress.
Their claim is that they mailed this “fanfiction” to Rick Wilson, a
noted Never Trumper. They claim that Wilson then gave it to the CIA. In October
2016 Wilson
on the Jamie Weinstein Show claimed “there are some things out there that I
think would cause even his most passionate supporters to go, ‘Whoa, wait a
minute.'” It appears that he was
hinting that he had some privileged information.
This would all be a very humorous incident except for the
fact that the “dossier” was used for such a nefarious purpose. Trump’s attorney, Michael
Cohen, stated “It’s so
ridiculous on so many levels. Clearly, the person who created this did so from
their imagination or did so hoping that the liberal media would run with this
fake story for whatever rationale they might have.” C.
Mitchell Shaw claimed, “the dossier does not read like the product of ‘a
former British intelligence operative.’”
He continued, “With its bad grammar, poor spelling, and lousy format,
the dossier reads much more like what the anonymous 4Chan user claims: a prank
that wound up being wildly successful beyond anything its perpetrators could
have hoped.” Even Piers
Morgan commented, “The moment I heard about it, my gut reaction was that it
was utter nonsense.”
Eventually the details about these memos will be
revealed. We live in a new
age. Dan Rather found this out
when he attempted to pass off a computer generated memo hr claimed was created
in the 1970s. San Francisco
professor Eric
Clanton discover that wearing a mask would not prevent him from being
identified when he used a bike lock to assault a man. All of the electronic communications dealing with these
memos are available. The chain of acquisition is on the internet. The only
thing lacking is the willingness to find them. Secretary of the Interior Zinke
claims that one third of the Interior Department’s employees are disloyal to
the President. The intel community
may contain an even higher number of employees who do not want to see the
President succeed. They will not
be enthusiastic about uncovering information they feel would benefit the
President. Perhaps they need a new
team to discover the origins of these memos.
“Crackas
with Attitude” appears to have the aptitude to do the research. This is a British group and not
Russian. They were able to hack
into the email accounts of CIA Director Brennan, Director of National
Intelligence Clapper, FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano and Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Johnson. When they hacked CIA director John Brennan's AOL
account they discovered a number of classified documents which were later
published on WikiLeaks as well as the Social Security numbers of more than a
dozen top American intelligence officials. The British eventually arrested the 16 year old youth.
It has now been revealed that the DNC paid Steele for his
efforts. The Washington
Post reported that, “After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to
continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia.” It is only a matter of time before all
the details of the “dossier” affair are revealed to the public.
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