Law ***PAYBACK: Barr Assigns Top Prosecutor to Russia BS / UPDATE REPORT LEAKS START***

[SBJJ]

Blumenthal not getting the answers he thought he would

 

[unimackpass]

Continuing from Rolling Stone.

(How many people here must feel like total dumb fooks, they will continue on believing anything from these snake oil merchants regardless.)



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”!

Steele in his report said the story had been “confirmed” by senior, Western hotel staff, but the actual source said it was all “rumor and speculation,” never confirmed. In fact, charged by Steele to find corroboration, the source could not: corroboration was “zero,” writes Horowitz.

Meanwhile the Steele assertions that Russians had a kompromat file on Hillary Clinton, and that there was a “well-developed conspiracy of coordination” between the Trump campaign and Russians, relied on a source Steele himself disparaged as an “egoist” and “boaster” who “may engage in some embellishment.” This was known to the FBI at the start, yet they naturally failed to include this info in the warrant application, one of what Horowitz described as “17 significant errors or omissions” in the FISA application.

Finally, when the FBI conducted an investigation into Steele’s “work-related performance,” they heard from some that he was “smart,” and a “person of integrity,” and “if he reported it, he believed it.”

 

[MilesAbove]

What has he not delivered on?

*A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
*Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress
*Institute a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition
*We won't tweet anymore after I'm president. It's not presidential.
* Leave Social Security as is
*Get rid of most corporate tax loopholes
*No longer charge income tax to single individuals earning less than $25,000 per year or couples earning less than $50,000.
*BrokenFix the background check system used when purchasing guns to ensure states are properly uploading criminal and health records.
*Terminate President Obama's executive orders related to immigration. This includes getting rid of "sanctuary cities" that Trump says have become refuges for criminals.
*Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cutting benefits.

I could go on with his promises he can't keep.

 

[Deleted member 457759]

I'm watching Horowitz sandbag Cruz by never answering "yes" to pertinent questions. He agrees with a convoluted sentence.

 

[Witchhunt]

Bill Barr is so rustled the IG position is an Independent audit of the DOJ and not subservient like the Mueller probe was. He is so rustled that he could not keep and hold the IG Report and release his own 'Summary' he is now chasing the report with to try and set a different narrative.

It is laughable seeing him race on to TV, knowing that allowing the IG Report to resonate out their on its own will control talking points and narrative and get set in peoples mind.

Barr has entirely exposed himself again as nothing but a lackey to Trump without an inch o space between the two for Barr to act with any independence if contradicts his boss.

It is shameful that John Durham is also now a proven lackey hand picked by Barr because he is on board the agenda. But better Durham play that hand now then pretend up until he dropped his report that he was acting with any independence.

All of the substantive claims (no bad faith, no spying, nothing that undermined the origins of the investigation in a meaningful way) , NOTHING other than process errors which is a very different thing than team Trump claimed prior or pretending exists now.

Trumps hand picked FBI Director Christopher Wray, said it best that it was "important that the inspector general found that, in this particular instance, the investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization."

Oh poor Bill. The facts were never on your side but you hoped to control the narrative knowing that power that has and that slipped away from you. You have neither the facts nor the narrative on your side now and only the most loyal dupe Trumpsters will buy what you will now chase to sell.

The IG beat Durham to the punch by dropping his report first and now you suck on sour grapes.

 

[unimackpass]

More blistering butt hurt news for the stupid and gullible from
Rolling Stone.

So far, so good. But Horowitz also wrote:

Their notes stated: “[d]emonstrates lack of self-awareness, poor judgment;” “[k]een to help” but “underpinned by poor judgment;” “Judgment: pursuing people with political risk but no intel value;” “[d]idn’t always exercise great judgment- sometimes [he] believes he knows best;” and “[r]eporting in good faith, but not clear what he would have done to validate.”

The Crossfire Hurricane team got all of this, but, again, didn’t pass it upstairs or include any of it in its warrant application.

I’ve written about how reporters used sleight of hand to get the Steele dossier into print without putting it through a vetting process. What Horowitz describes is worse: a story about bad journalism piled on bad journalism, balanced on a third layer of wrong reporting.

Steele in his “reports” embellished his sources’ quotes, played up nonexistent angles, invented attributions, and ignored inconsistencies. The FBI then transplanted this bad reporting in the form of a warrant application and an addendum to the Intelligence Assessment that included the Steele material, ignoring a new layer of inconsistencies and red flags its analysts uncovered in the review process.

Then, following a series of leaks, the news media essentially reported on the FBI’s wrong reporting of Steele’s wrong reporting.

The impact was greater than just securing a warrant to monitor Page. More significant were the years of headlines that grew out of this process, beginning with the leaking of the meeting with Trump about Steele’s blackmail allegations, the insertion of Steele’s conclusions in the Intelligence Assessment about Russian interference, and the leak of news about the approval of the Page FISA warrant.

As a result, a “well-developed conspiracy” theory based on a report that Comey described as “salacious and unverified material that a responsible journalist wouldn’t report without corroborating,” became the driving news story in a superpower nation for two years. Even the New York Times, which published a lot of these stories, is in the wake of the Horowitz report noting Steele’s role in “unleashing a flood of speculation in the news media about the new president’s relationship with Russia.”

No matter what people think the political meaning of the Horowitz report might be, reporters who read it will know: Anybody who touched this nonsense in print should be embarrassed.

 

[Witchhunt]

Ah the ole talk-down strategy. Best to avoid the reality the facts of action and instead lean on the partisan cucking of an entire party.

I think you are conceding to "evil republicans" too soon. If the facts are on your side, you'll win. Right?
You can read whatever you choose in to any of this debacle. It's all good. The "facts" are being sorted out. We'll see..

 

[Deleted member 457759]

Horowitz just called out for suggesting wrong doing and a need to audit the FISA process but at the same time, denying that anything wrong happened.

Slither slither Horowitz.

 

[glenwo2]

Wow, even Rolling Stone gets this.


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

If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was.

Like the much-ballyhooed report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Horowitz report is a Rorschach test, in which partisans will find what they want to find.

Much of the press is concentrating on Horowitz’s conclusion that there was no evidence of “political bias or improper motivation” in the FBI’s probe of Donald Trump’s Russia contacts, an investigation Horowitz says the bureau had “authorized purpose” to conduct.

Horowitz uses phrases like “serious performance failures,” describing his 416-page catalogue of errors and manipulations as incompetence rather than corruption. This throws water on the notion that the Trump investigation was a vast frame-up.

Of course John "Bull" Durham is going to disprove that theory of "no corruption" on the part of the FBI, when he's done. Can't wait!

 

[unimackpass]

All one has to do is look at the findings of the report, its game over. It was a rigged investigation propped up by fraud and lies.

Carter Page won't be kept from the headlines. He will get his pound of flesh.

Bingo. Orange mad bad is driving this idiots to do things junior high kids would recognize has consequences that is on par with driving a vw head on into a semi doing 70.
They just keep getting crazier.

 

[glenwo2]

Horowitz seems to be saying that while he found no physical evidence of bias for the START of the investigation. He will not say that about the FISA applications.

John "Bull" Durham begs to differ.

 

[glenwo2]

Blumenthal not getting the answers he thought he would

So sad. Suck on that, you stolen-valor motherfucker.

 

[b34stmode]

Oh snap the wrongdoing of these FBI agents opens up a can of worms as just stated, can open up any criminal cases these agents were a part of to see if their conduct was in line with the FBI. Sheesh. FBI keeps taking L after L

 

[Witchhunt]

*A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
*Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress
*Institute a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition
*We won't tweet anymore after I'm president. It's not presidential.
* Leave Social Security as is
*Get rid of most corporate tax loopholes
*No longer charge income tax to single individuals earning less than $25,000 per year or couples earning less than $50,000.
*BrokenFix the background check system used when purchasing guns to ensure states are properly uploading criminal and health records.
*Terminate President Obama's executive orders related to immigration. This includes getting rid of "sanctuary cities" that Trump says have become refuges for criminals.
*Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cutting benefits.

I could go on with his promises he can't keep.

You're making a strong case for Trump 2020... He needs more time without all of the political distractions..

 

[Witchhunt]

Bwaaaaahahahahaha, Kamala not one to disappoint. Opens up with pure narrative.. I don't know how that lumped up sack of boar shit gets elected.. Like her claiming to be an African American senator.. What a fucking tool..

Watch her pitiful grandstanding in the Kavanaugh shit show for Lulz….

 

[unimackpass]

This whole clown show proves that "Russian Collusion" has become the definition "a lie made from whole cloth."

All they got is a actual joke trump made at a rally. Literally that's all they got proving they are a total joke.

 

[unimackpass]

Bwaaaaahahahahaha, Kamala not one to disappoint. Opens up with pure narrative.. I don't know how that lumped up sack of boar shit gets elected.. Like her claiming to be an African American senator.. What a fucking tool..

Watch her pitiful grandstanding in the Kavanaugh shit show for Lulz….

I had to change the the channel to ww2 history, couldn't deal with anymore of her slithering.

 

[Deleted member 457759]

Fox playing footage of Comey saying Steele is a reliable agent.

This is just too good.

 

[Big Dick Cheney**]

*A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
*Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress
*Institute a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition
*We won't tweet anymore after I'm president. It's not presidential.
* Leave Social Security as is
*Get rid of most corporate tax loopholes
*No longer charge income tax to single individuals earning less than $25,000 per year or couples earning less than $50,000.
*BrokenFix the background check system used when purchasing guns to ensure states are properly uploading criminal and health records.
*Terminate President Obama's executive orders related to immigration. This includes getting rid of "sanctuary cities" that Trump says have become refuges for criminals.
*Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cutting benefits.

I could go on with his promises he can't keep.

was opposed too strongly by the dumocraps. he tried though.

 

[SBJJ]

So when do the mass apologies from WR drones start pouring in for Devin Nunes?