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  • Russiagate or Hillarygate?

    Source: Paul Roderick Gregory

    According to an insider account, the Clinton team, put together the Russia Gate narrative within 24 hours of her defeat. The Clinton account explained that Russian hacking and election meddling caused her unexpected loss. Her opponent, Donald Trump, was a puppet of Putin. Trump, they said, "encourages espionage against our people." The scurrilous Trump dossier, prepared by a London opposition research firm, Orbis, and paid for by unidentified Democrat donors, formed a key part of the Clinton narrative: Trump's sexual and business escapades in Russia had made him a hostage of the Kremlin, ready to do its bidding. That was Hillary's way to say that Trump is really not President of the United States-a siren call adopted by the Democratic party and media.

    Hillary and the Orbis Dossier

    The most under covered story of Russia Gate is the interconnection between the Clinton campaign, an unregistered foreign agent of Russia headquartered in DC (Fusion GPS), and the Christopher Steele Orbis dossier. This connection has raised the question of whether Kremlin prepared the dossier as part of a disinformation campaign to sow chaos in the US political system. If ordered and paid for by Hillary Clinton associates, Russia Gate is turned on its head as collusion between Clinton operatives (not Trump's) and Russian intelligence. Russia Gate becomes Hillary Gate.

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    Not sure what to make of this yet, but .
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  • #2
    This is yet another example of why CNN (and others) are Fake News.

    If you take a CNN headline (Trump colludes with Russia) and based on no evidence at all simply guess the opposite (Hillary colludes with Russia) you are more likely to have your views vindicated six months later than the CNN headline. Again, take a CNN headline, assume the opposite, and you've a really good shot at being correct - that is how horrible these people are at their jobs.
    Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101

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    • #3
      And:

      State Department probes Clinton handling of government emails, could pull her security clearance

      The State Department has opened a formal inquiry into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while she was the nation’s top diplomat, Fox News has learned. Despite being under investigation, Clinton and her staffers still have security clearances to access sensitive government information.

      The department’s investigation aims to determine whether Clinton and her closest aides violated government protocols by using her private server to receive, hold and transmit classified and top-secret government documents. The department declined to say when its inquiry began, but it follows the conclusion of the FBI’s probe into the matter, which did not result in any actions being taken against Clinton or any of her aides.

      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...clearance.html
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      • #4
        Originally posted by OP story
        According to an insider account,
        It has anonymous sources so it must be true!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          It has anonymous sources so it must be true!
          That apparently comes from Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, so perhaps it's not so anonymous.
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          • #6
            "Critics are calling it 'the feel-good story of the decade'..."
            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
            Than a fool in the eyes of God


            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
              "Critics are calling it 'the feel-good story of the decade'..."
              I'm considering taking a spin through it anyway.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                "Critics are calling it 'the feel-good story of the decade'..."
                I've finally gotten around to reading this. It is, overall, a transparent attempt to elicit sympathy for HRC. The authors clearly had access to everyone from Obama and Hillary on down - it contains their personal thoughts. It is also clear that the Russia conspiracy was first broached as an October surprise which got released nearly simultaneously with the Access Hollywood tape and the Wikileaks dump of DNC emails. The authors clearly assume that Wikileaks is practically an arm of the Russian government. The Russia conspiracy angle didn't get much traction because it was overshadowed by other things; clearly, neither side took it all that seriously. It next came up in the immediate aftermath of Election Day as a convenient excuse for why Hillary lost, and the losers have been pushing it for all they're worth since.
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                • #9
                  Source: Putin's Playthings

                  One of the principals of the Clinton campaign, John Podesta, was a board member of a green energy firm that suddenly saw an infusion of Russian cash -- purportedly in an attempt to sway Podesta.

                  Congressional science and energy committees and subcommittees are currently interested in whether the Russians funneled cash into American anti-fracking groups such as Sea Change on the expectation that they might help derail American energy exploration and production.

                  The Russian government has lost nearly half its oil revenue because of the innovative American ability to frack gas and oil, which has crashed world energy prices. Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently will do anything to see it stopped.

                  Early in 2016, investigative journalists reported that Russian interests donated to the Clinton Foundation and offered generous speaking honoraria to former president Bill Clinton, apparently in hopes of gaining leverage with then-Secretary of State and likely future presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In one controversial deal, the U.S. government approved sales of a large amount of North American uranium deposits to Russian interests.

                  The list of Russian capers, collusions and conspiracies could be expanded, but the picture is clear: Putin's Russia is in bad shape. It is economically weak and eager to do anything possible to hurt the U.S. -- largely by using a fake-news disinformation campaign, spreading Kremlin cash, and playing a gullible and often unprofessional U.S. media eager to find a scandalous Russian under every American bed.

                  So far the Russian disinformation program has worked brilliantly.

                  Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0717/hanson072017.php3

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                  More Hillary fun:
                  Source: WaPo

                  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service engaged in widespread violations of federal law by pressuring managers to approve letter carriers taking time off last fall to campaign for Hillary Clinton and other union-backed Democrats, investigators said Wednesday.
                  High-level postal officials had for years granted employees requests for unpaid leave, leading last year to an "institutional bias" in favor of Clinton and other Democrats endorsed by the National Association of Letter Carriers, one of the largest postal unions. The Postal Service's Office of Special Counsel and inspector general found that the agency violated the Hatch Act, which restricts federal employees from working for or against a political candidate or party during election season.

                  Read more at http://jewishworldreview.com/0717/hi...Ax3BOYDQCBy.99

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                  • #10
                    Source: Who funded the fake Trump/Putin dossier?

                    [S]ome Democrats are quietly retreating from the Trump/Putin front because of the increasing risk that the fraudulent charade will ricochet.

                    Why would it backfire?

                    Because of Glenn Simpson and company.

                    Simpson is co-founder of Fusion GPS, the outfit that established its "reputation" after it was hired by Democrats in 2012 to conduct opposition research on Mitt Romney. In September of 2015 Fusion was reportedly hired by a wealthy Republican donor opposed to then-primary candidate Donald Trump to conduct opposition research, standard fare between competing high-profile primary and general election candidates.

                    But in May of 2016, once Trump was the presumed Republican nominee, Hillary Clinton's comrades took over the account and issued different orders. They paid Simpson at least $160,000 to commission a former British MI6 "black bag" operative, Christopher Steele, to compile the now-infamously fake "Trump/Putin dossier."

                    That totally debunked 35-page report became the centerpiece of the Demo/MSM propaganda machine's collusion conspiracy theory — the compulsive claim that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin conspired to steal the election from Clinton.
                    ....
                    On 21 July, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley (R-IA), and the ranking Democrat, Diane Feinstein (D-CA), issued a subpoena for Glenn Simpson to testify, after he had previously declined their invitation to voluntary do so, stating he had "long held vacation plans."

                    The subpoena prompted a response from Simpson's lawyer, Joshua Levy, that Simpson would appear and answer Senate investigators' questions in a closed-door session.

                    By the way, Levy is the former congressional counsel to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). This is probably as coincidental as the fact that, at the same time the Democrats began funding Fusion's fraudulent claims about Trump, it turns out that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer involved in the "controversial" meeting with Donald Trump Jr., was also associated with Simpson and Fusion.

                    Again, probably just coincidence...

                    While the Judiciary Committee would like information on who funded the phony Fusion dossier on Trump, its initial charges against Simpson are that he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register as one of Putin's paid agents. According to Sen. Grassley, "It is vital for the Committee to fully understand Fusion's failure to register under FARA and its role in the creating and spreading of the dossier."

                    Turns out that, according to the collateral Senate testimony of Bill Browder, at the time Fusion was compiling the fake dossier info on Trump for the Democrats, it was also lobbying on behalf of Putin to overturn the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which sanctioned Putin's oligarchs for human rights violations. According to Browder, he knows all about "Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson's role working on behalf of the Russian government to overturn the Magnitsky Act."

                    Copy that?

                    This has all the political hallmarks of a quid pro quo — Putin (by way of Simpson and Steele) generated a counterfeit report on Trump to help Hillary Clinton win the election, in return for the favor of her softening the Magnitsky Act's sanctions once president. Recall it was assumed by all the political illuminati that Clinton would absolutely be the 2016 victor. Unfortunately for Putin, Trump was elected, and he piled on additional Russian sanctions this week.

                    Investigative journalist Kim Strassel, in her Wall Street Journal analysis, "Who Paid for the 'Trump Dossier'?," posits this: "What if, all this time, Washington and the media have had the Russia collusion story backward? What if it wasn't the Trump campaign playing footsie with the Vladimir Putin regime, but Democrats? The more we learn about Fusion, the more this seems a possibility."

                    According to Strassel, "We know that at the exact time Fusion was working with the Russians, the firm also hired — wait for it — Christopher Steele to dig up dirt on Mr. Trump. Steele compiled his material, according to his [Trump dossier] memos, based on allegations from unnamed Kremlin insiders and other Russians. Many of the claims sound eerily similar to the sort of 'oppo' [former Soviet counterintelligence officer Rinat] Akhmetshin peddled." (Recall that Akhmetshin was also in that June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr.)

                    So, Steele was fed information by Russian operatives under the direction Putin — a former KGB colonel well-trained in such conspiracies — which is to say he, Simpson and their Democrat backers colluded with Russia to fabricate the hit piece against Trump.

                    Copy that?

                    In her analysis, Strassel concludes, "If the Russian intention was to sow chaos in the American political system, few things could have been more effective than that dossier, which ramped up an FBI investigation and sparked congressional probes and a special counsel, deeply wounding the president. ... If Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Democrats and the media really want answers about Russian meddling, this is a far deeper well than the so-far scant case against Mr. Trump. If they refuse to dive into the story, we'll know that the truth about Russia and the election was never what they were after."

                    Bottom line, the singular question any investigator should now be asking is: "Who funded the fake Fusion Trump/Putin dossier?"

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