Tweet
DoJ has turned over all documents. For some reason Rosenstein had a meeting with Ryan about it.
-
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh -
Someone that was involved in the discredited dossier was murdered.
The publication of the infamous dossier resulted in the death of at least one person, a lawyer for opposition research firm Fusion GPS told a Senate committee last year.
The comment, from Fusion GPS lawyer Joshua Levy, was made during an Aug. 22 Senate Judiciary Committee interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.
A transcript of that interview that was released by committee Democrats on Tuesday shows that Levy instructed Simpson to avoid discussing sources for the dossier because an unidentified person had already been killed over the salacious document.
“It’s a voluntary interview, and in addition to that he wants to be very careful to protect his sources. Somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work,” Levy told Jason Foster, an investigator for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
-
Have you even read the Steele dossier? I have.
It's not discredited. It's also not about "collusion" - because that wasn't Fusion GPS' assignment.
It's mostly about Russian election influence, the years they spent cultivating Trump, and using Wikileaks to maintain "plausible deniability" when releasing hacked information. It's a lot more about Putin's hatred for Hillary than any love for Trump. The closest thing to a quid quo pro appears to be election support (such as the Wikileaked emails and social media troll farms) in exchange for a promise to end US sanctions related to the Ukraine.
But the only things discredited so far are the whole series of Team Trump denials of various Russian contacts and meetings dating back to summer of 2016. Most of those denials have been proven false by their own admissions.
Oh, and Cohen, Trump's lawyer, filed a libel suit against Buzzfeed for being named in the dossier - apparently based on his claim that he's never been to Prague.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-ArmsComment
-
It's discredited in the sense that it is not evidence, since it was funded by the political opposition and not verifiable. Because it was used to get a FISA warrant. The FBI mislead the court to believe that they had verified the dossier.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
-
So you have no idea and are just repeating the talking points from your echo chamber. Again.
FYI, most of the Steele dossier's contents have been verified. It's a lot more damning vs the Russians than it is vs Trump, but it's also clear that Team Trump welcomed Putin's assistance. -
B'S. It's damn ning for Fusion GPS and the FBI as well as MSM. I have no time for this BS.
-
-
Based on how often he doesn't read the sources he posts, I would guess...NOOriginally posted by -Jrabbit View Post
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
-
We also know Christopher Steele, a former British spy, gathered information for the dossier from a hodgepodge of rumors from Russian sources that, according to Simpson’s own testimony, were never substantiated by the firm. Steele called the collection of rumors “raw” and “unverified.”
Simpson told Congress, in his prevaricating and often defensive testimony, that Steele allegedly went to the FBI because he believed the Kremlin had the goods on Trump. The Russians, he claimed, were blackmailing the candidate with evidence of sordid sexual escapades. More significant, the Trump team had colluded with the Russians in hacking emails of Democrats during the campaign and were working on a quid pro quo basis. It was like calling 911 when witnessing a potential crime, Steele noted.
Well, almost immediately, one of the most repeated and significant claims backing this testimony had to be walked back.
Simpson told Congress “an internal campaign source,” a “whistle-blower” within the Trump organization, had corroborated some of the information in the dossier for the FBI. This was a bombshell (if true) because it meant that there was a legitimate source substantiating those assertions. So even the dossier’s most shocking tales could be treated seriously by the FBI and used as a pretext to investigate Trump’s organization in the middle of a political campaign.
Soon after the transcript was released, however, NBC News’ Ken Dilanian, who has a close relationship with Fusion, reported that sources in the firm were correcting Steele, who’d mischaracterized a meeting with a Trump source. No, there was no “walk-in” from the Trump campaign, as Steele had maintained in his testimony.
This is hardly surprising. Those who bought, compiled and spread the Trump dossier’s rumors have been walking back its claims for a while. And that’s likely one of the reasons Democrats have been scrambling to retroactively diminish its importance in any investigation.
SEE ALSO
Trump's personal lawyer sues BuzzFeed over Russia dossier
In fact, Simpson’s description of Steele’s reasons for approaching the FBI aren’t even true. In the dossier, Steele alleges to be offering extensive evidence of a “conspiracy between Trump’s campaign team and the Kremlin.” In his deposition in a libel case late last year, however, the former spy says it was merely “possible” that collusion had taken place and the dossier reflects “limited intelligence.”
We see a similar downgrading of the dossier’s significance and veracity in Simpson’s own testimony. “The question that is asked generally is whether it’s credible,” he explained. “You don’t really decide who’s telling the truth.”
Well, now that Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, is filing a pair of lawsuits — one in federal court against Fusion GPS and the other in New York against BuzzFeed — the truth may take on some renewed importance. Add to that the fact that Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham asked the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Steele’s inconsistencies, and surely we can look forward to more clarifications and walkbacks in the future.
This is likely what prompted Feinstein to release the transcripts — which, incidentally, excluded not only a number of important contextual exhibits from Simpson’s testimony but also redacted all sorts of relevant information about the players in the case.
It doesn’t matter. At some point, we’re going to learn the whole story. And if it turns out that the political party in power used a dossier filled with raw, unsubstantiated information to spy on its opponents, it’ll be a massive scandal.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist.
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
-
Whatever babykiller.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
-
Yes, why respond with reasonable discourse when you can just call the person a babykiller.
And as ALWAYS you have no proof of that ridiculous accusation.
But then proof has never been necessary in the Kidverse. Sheeple.
It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
-
It's a figure of speech. I didn't expect you to get it.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
-
No, I don't consider that "a figure of speech"
Who does besides you?
I'm sure you can't provide a reliable source that accepts that as common usage as anything but a crass insult to Viet Nam Vets.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
-
It is btw. interesting that Kid calls Jrabbit Babykiller, but Roy Moore, who actually took part in Vietnam, a war hero,
who alone for his participation in the war should get so much respect, that people should stop accusing him of molesting minors
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
-
This is coming from the person who says that pro-life is a war on womenOriginally posted by rah View PostI drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
-
More conspiracy theoriesOriginally posted by Proteus_MST View PostIt is btw. interesting that Kid calls Jrabbit Babykiller, but Roy Moore, who actually took part in Vietnam, a war hero,
who alone for his participation in the war should get so much respect, that people should stop accusing him of molesting minorsI drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
-
Please feel free to quote a post where I said that.Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
I did say that I consider men that accost women at abortion centers akin to terrorism but that is nowhere near what you just accused me of.
terrorism
noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
So put up or shut up.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
-
Oh you just accused them of terrorism. My bad!
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
Comment