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# As Dossier Scandal Looms, The New York Times Struggles To Save Its Collusion Tale

Authored by Andrew McCarthy via National Review,

"The totality of the evidence undermines the Times’ collusion narrative..."

"Trump Adviser’s Visit to Moscow Got the F.B.I.’s Attention.” That was the page-one headline the New York Times ran on April 20, 2017, above its breathless report that “a catalyst for the F.B.I. investigation into connections between Russia and President Trump’s campaign” was a June 2016 visit to Moscow by Carter Page.

It was due to the Moscow trip by Page, dubbed a “foreign policy adviser” to the campaign, that “the F.B.I. obtained a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court” in September — i.e., during the stretch run of the presidential campaign.

You’re to be forgiven if you’re feeling dizzy. It may not be too much New Year’s reverie; it may be that you’re reeling over the Times’ holiday-weekend volte-face: “How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt.”

Seven months after throwing Carter Page as fuel on the collusion fire lit by then-FBI director James Comey’s stunning public disclosure that the Bureau was investigating possible Trump campaign “coordination” in Russia’s election meddling, the Gray Lady now says: Never mind. We’re onto Collusion 2.0, in which it is George Papadopoulos — then a 28-year-old whose idea of résumé enhancement was to feign participation in the Model U.N. — who triggered the FBI’s massive probe by . . . wait for it . . . a night of boozy blather in London.

What’s going on here?

Well, it turns out the Page angle and thus the collusion narrative itself is beset by an Obama-administration scandal: Slowly but surely, it has emerged that the Justice Department and FBI very likely targeted Page because of the Steele dossier, a Clinton-campaign opposition-research screed disguised as intelligence reporting. Increasingly, it appears that the Bureau failed to verify Steele’s allegations before the DOJ used some of them to bolster an application for a spying warrant from the FISA court (i.e., the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court).

Thanks to the persistence of the House Intelligence Committee led by Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), the dossier story won’t go away. Thus, Democrats and their media friends have been moving the goal posts in an effort to save their collusion narrative. First, we were led to believe the dossier was no big deal because the FBI would surely have corroborated any information before the DOJ fed it to a federal judge in a warrant application. Then, when the Clinton campaign’s role in commissioning the dossier came to light, we were told it was impertinent to ask about what the FBI did, if anything, to corroborate it since this could imperil intelligence methods and sources — and, besides, such questions were just a distraction from the all-important Mueller investigation (which the dossier had a hand in instigating and which, to date, has turned up no evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy).

Lately, the story has morphed into this: Well, even if the dossier was used, it was only used a little — there simply must have been lots of other evidence that Trump was in cahoots with Putin. But that’s not going to fly: Putting aside the dearth of collusion evidence after well over a year of aggressive investigation, the dossier is partisan propaganda. If it was not adequately corroborated by the FBI, and if the Justice Department, without disclosing its provenance to the court, nevertheless relied on any part of it in a FISA application, that is a major problem.

So now, a new strategy to prop up the collusion tale: Never mind Page — lookee over here at Papadopoulos!

But that’s not what they were saying in April, when the collusion narrative and Democratic calls for a special prosecutor were in full bloom.

Back then, no fewer than six of the Times’ top reporters, along with a researcher, worked their anonymous “current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials” in order to generate the Page blockbuster. With these leaks, the paper confidently reported: “From the Russia trip of the once-obscure Mr. Page grew a wide-ranging investigation, now accompanied by two congressional inquiries, that has cast a shadow over the early months of the Trump administration” [emphasis added].

Oh sure, the Times acknowledged that there might have been a couple of other factors involved. “Paul Manafort, then [i.e., during Page’s trip] Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, was already under criminal investigation in connection with payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.” And “WikiLeaks and two websites later identified as Russian intelligence fronts had begun releasing emails obtained when Democratic Party servers were hacked.”

But the trigger for the investigation — the “catalyst” — was Page.

Somehow, despite all that journalistic leg-work and all those insider sources, the name George Papadopoulos does not appear in the Times’ story.

Now, however, we’re supposed to forget about Page. According to the new bombshell dropped on New Year’s Eve by six Times reporters, it was “the hacking” coupled with “the revelation that a member of the Trump campaign” — Papadopoulos — “may have had inside information about it” that were “driving factors that led the F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of President Trump’s associates conspired.”

It seems like only yesterday — or, to be more precise, only late October, when he pled guilty to a count of lying to the FBI in the Mueller probe — that Mr. Papadopoulos was even more obscure than the “once-obscure Mr. Page.” Now, though, he has been elevated to “the improbable match that set off a blaze that has consumed the first year of the Trump administration.”

But hey, if you’re willing to hang in there through the first 36 paragraphs of the Times’ nearly 3,000-word Papadopoulos report, you’ll find the fleeting observation that “A trip to Moscow by another adviser, Carter Page, also raised concerns at the F.B.I.”

You don’t say!

### Page and the Dossier Problem

Again, until this weekend, Page was the eye of the collusion storm. And as I outlined in a column last weekend, a significant part of what got the FBI and the Obama Justice Department stirred up about Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow was the Steele dossier — the anti-Trump reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. Alas, six months after the Times’ planted its feet on Page as the linchpin of the Trump-Russia investigation, we learned that the dossier was actually an opposition-research project paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. We further learned that at Fusion GPS, the research firm that retained Steele for the project, Steele collaborated on it with Nellie Ohr, the wife of top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr — and that Bruce Ohr had personally been briefed on the project by Steele and a Fusion GPS executive.

It is an explosive problem, this use of the dossier by the Obama Justice Department and the FBI in an application to the FISA court for authority to spy on Trump’s associates. Politically, it suggests that the collusion narrative peddled by Democrats and the media since Trump’s victory in the November election was substantially driven by partisan propaganda. Legally, it raises the distinct possibilities that (a) the FBI did not adequately verify the claims in the dossier before using them in an application to the secret federal court; and (b) the Justice Department of the then-incumbent Democratic administration did not disclose to the court that the dossier was produced by the Democratic presidential campaign for use against the rival Republican candidate.

When it emerged in October that the dossier was a Democratic-party campaign product, Representative Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) recounted that, for months, the Justice Department and FBI had stonewalled House demands that they fess up about whether dossier allegations were used in applying for the FISA-court warrant to surveil Page. But though the DOJ and the Bureau have struggled to lock the barn, the horse left long ago. Shortly before the Times ran its Page extravaganza last April, CNN confirmed that the dossier had indeed been used to obtain the FISA warrant — the network relying on unnamed “US officials briefed on the [Russia] investigation.”

I won’t hazard a guess on which of CNN’s anonymous sources are also the Times’ anonymous sources. But it is safe to say the intelligence community, still suffused with Obama holdovers, has been undone by its own illegal leaking. Back in April, they leaked because they figured it would wound President Trump: After all, if the dossier had been used to obtain a FISA warrant, that must mean that the dossier’s sensational allegations of a traitorous Trump-Russia conspiracy were true. That is, the leakers assumed, just as many of us familiar with the FISA process assumed, that the Justice Department would never put information in a FISA warrant application unless the FBI had first corroborated it.

Subsequently, however, former FBI director James Comey told a Senate committee that the dossier remained “salacious and unverified.” Obviously, if the FBI had not verified the dossier by the time Comey testified in June 2017, then the Bureau cannot possibly have verified the dossier when DOJ sought the FISA warrant nine months earlier, in September 2016.

Then in October, it emerged that the Clinton campaign paid for the dossier. More recently, we learned that anti-Trump bias ran rampant in the upper ranks of the Bureau and the Justice Department — to the point that a top FBI counterintelligence agent spoke of the Bureau’s need for an “insurance policy” against the risk of a Trump presidency. Right before Christmas, reporting from Fox News strongly suggested that the FBI, though apparently aware that the dossier was a partisan campaign project, had verified none of its sensational claims. Finally, in a Fox News interview on Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who has inspected relevant classified documents, indicated that the Justice Department used the dossier in its application without disclosing its partisan political genesis to the FISA court (see Paul Mirengoff’s Powerline post with embedded video).

All of this comes back to Carter Page, heretofore the anchor of the media’s collusion narrative. The link between Page and the dossier is manifest. As I outlined in last weekend’s column, the FBI began receiving the dossier’s explosive reports shortly after Page’s Russia trip. Steele’s reports, based on anonymous Russian sources, alleged that (a) there was an explicit Trump-Russia conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election, (b) the conspiracy included Russian hacking of Democratic email accounts in which Trump campaign officials, including Page, were complicit, and (c) Page met with two top Kremlin operatives on the Moscow trip — operatives who discussed with him a quid pro quo arrangement to drop sanctions against Russia, floated the possibility of providing the Trump campaign with “kompromat” (compromising information) on Hillary Clinton, and warned that Trump better be careful because the Putin regime had a kompromat file on him, too.

It has become increasingly clear that Steele’s claims about Page are, at best, highly dubious; more likely, they are untrue. Aside from the fact that Comey has been dismissive of the dossier as “unverified,” Page has vigorously and plausibly denied its allegations about him. The Annapolis grad and former naval-intelligence officer insists he is not even acquainted with the Russian officials with whom he supposedly had traitorous meetings. Moreover, if the Russian regime truly wanted to make insidious proposals to Trump, it had emissaries far better positioned to approach him; it strains credulity to believe the Kremlin would turn to Page — barely known to Trump and, years earlier, derided as an “idiot” by a Russian intelligence operative who tried to recruit him.

### Papadopoulos and the New ‘Russian Reset’

So now, with the Page foundation of the collusion narrative collapsing, and with the heat on over the Obama administration’s use of the dossier, it is apparently Papadopoulos to the rescue.

In the Times’ new version of events, it was not the dossier that “so alarmed American officials to provoke the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election.” That, according to the Times, is a false claim that “Mr. Trump and other politicians have alleged.” Somehow, the paper omits the inconvenient details that it was the Times that led the charge in claiming that it was Page’s trip to Moscow that provoked the investigation, and that it was the dossier that so alarmed the FBI about that trip.

In what we might think of as the latest “Russian Reset,” the Times now says the investigation was instigated by “firsthand information from one of America’s closest intelligence allies” — Australia. Turns out Papadopoulos was out drinking in London with Alexander Downer, “Australia’s top diplomat in Britain.” Tongue loosened, the “young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign” made a “startling revelation” to Downer: He had learned that “Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.”

Because of the “Statement of the Offense” that Special Counsel Mueller filed with the court when Papadopoulos pled guilty, the Times and the rest of us now know that a few weeks earlier (on April 26), Papadopoulos was told by a Maltese academic who purported to have Kremlin ties that Russia had “thousands of emails” that could damage Hillary Clinton. We also know that in July, hacked Democratic-party emails began being published.

With that established, we’re now told that when the emails were leaked, Australian officials put two and two together, figuring these emails might be what Papadopoulos was talking about “that night at the Kensington Wine Room.” The Aussies thus tipped off their American counterparts to the barroom conversation between Papadopoulos and Downer. That, not the dossier explicitly alleging a Trump-Russia conspiracy, is what provoked the investigation. You can take it to the bank. After all, the Times has gotten this revisionist history from “four American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role” — i.e., from the same sort of unidentified, unaccountable sources that brought you the Page-centric version of events that has now been discarded.

To say this story has holes in it does not do justice to the craters on display. To begin with, the Times admits that “exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said” to Downer “is unclear.” What we are dealing with here is sheer supposition. And, it appears, flawed supposition.

As I pointed out after Papadopoulos pled guilty, he was told that the Russians had “emails of Clinton.” But the hacked emails that were published were not Clinton’s emails; they were those of the DNC and John Podesta — exceedingly few of which Clinton was even included on, much less participated in. Given the amount of misinformation the credulous Papadopoulos was given (one of his interlocutors falsely posed as Putin’s niece), the likelihood is that he was being toyed with: Remember, there was much speculation at the time, including by Trump himself, that the Russians (and other foreign intelligence services) might have hacked former secretary Clinton’s unsecure private server and obtained the 30,000-plus emails that she refused to surrender to the State Department; it is probable that these were the emails Papadopoulos’s dubious Russian connections purported to be dangling.

There is no evidence that Papadopoulos or the Trump campaign was ever shown or given any of the emails the Kremlin purportedly had. The evidence, in fact, undermines the collusion narrative: If the Trump campaign had to learn, through Papadopoulos, that Russia supposedly had thousands of emails damaging to Clinton, that would necessarily mean the Trump campaign had nothing to do with Russia’s acquisition of the emails. This, no doubt, is why Mueller permitted Papadopoulos to plead guilty to a mere process crime — lying in an FBI interview. If there were evidence of an actual collusion conspiracy, Papadopoulos would have been pressured to admit guilt to it. He wasn’t.

Even a cursory FBI investigation of Papadopoulos would have illustrated how implausible it was that he could have been integral to a Trump-Russia plot. Anonymous intelligence and law-enforcement officials have been leaking collusion information to the Times and other media outlets since before Trump won the November 2016 election — that’s why we’ve spent the last year-plus hearing all about Page, Manafort, Flynn, et al. If Papadopoulos had really been the impetus for the investigation way back in July 2016, what are the chances that we would never have heard his name mentioned until after his guilty plea was announced 15 months later? What are the chances that we’d only now be learning that he was the real stimulus for the investigation? I’d put it at less than none.

There’s another interesting word that does not appear in the Times’ extensive Papadopoulos report: surveillance. Despite being “so alarmed” by young Papadopoulos’s barroom braggadocio with the Australian diplomat, and his claimed Russia connections, there is no indication that the Obama Justice Department and FBI ever sought a FISA-court warrant to spy on him.

No, the FISA warrant was sought for Carter Page, after his trip to Moscow. The trip the Times used to say incited the Trump-Russia probe.

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SickDollar Jan 2, 2018 6:44 PM

Bring it on Bitchez

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Ralph Spoilsport SickDollar Jan 2, 2018 6:47 PM

It's not treason if you win.

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null Ralph Spoilsport Jan 2, 2018 6:57 PM

Oh, but the instant you lose!

Yea, we see that the purps did have a couple of months to give it an ol’ college try.

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MozartIII null Jan 2, 2018 7:11 PM

Tigger lost his Tail as well!!! Another fairy tale gone wrong.

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takeaction SickDollar Jan 2, 2018 6:49 PM

Trump is finally really pissed at Sleepy ass troll Sessions.

It has already been a great year...

Trump wants Huma in Jail.

Trump cuts of Billions of dollars to Pakistan...

Trump tells rocket man..."No talks till you stop your nuclear program."

Gold off to the races....

Good year on day 2...Not bad..

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Troll Magnet Jan 2, 2018 6:44 PM

Jewish publications never lie.

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Stu Elsample Troll Magnet Jan 2, 2018 6:57 PM

I like reading their reviews of lamp shades

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null Troll Magnet Jan 2, 2018 7:01 PM

Are you claiming that some rich people who own a few percent of some bird cage liner and that put themselves out as Jewish are lying scumbags? Higher in percentage maybe, than whom? You got all the media DNA’d?

Maybe you can add some useful analysis to that blank regurgitation of obviousness.

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Arnold Jan 2, 2018 6:46 PM

A month's supply of bird cage liner is available for $5.00, in the New York Sunday Times.

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Dilluminati Jan 2, 2018 6:47 PM

I WANT MITT ROMNEY TO ANSWER THE QUESTION:

Did you pay for the Dossier? Do you think there needs to be a special prosecutor into the handling and creation of that dossier?

Did somebody kidnap Tyler and get him to suggest Mitt would be a Senator? Kidnap Matt Drudge also?

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Arnold Dilluminati Jan 2, 2018 6:51 PM

Mittens has better things to do than put on his clean pair of swamp waders.

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Arnold Arnold Jan 2, 2018 6:52 PM

Like shut the fuck up,

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Dilluminati Arnold Jan 2, 2018 7:01 PM

Somebody must have kidnapped Tyler somebody typed:

Orrin Hatch To RetUre, Opening Door For Romney Senate Bid

and there was no edit button so somebody goes and pretends to be Tyler and changes the JSON and the crime scene disappeared, along with valuable votes needed to win election!

Is it strange that suddenly Tyler is now assisting the coronation establishment tools like Mitt?

Has there been a ransom demand?

Can we get things fixed?

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Arnold Dilluminati Jan 2, 2018 7:07 PM

I know Mitt, and he is no Jack Kennedy./s

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williambanzai7 Arnold Jan 2, 2018 7:36 PM

Like fucking himself

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Arnold williambanzai7 Jan 2, 2018 7:50 PM

self promotion (from the dead) is the new orange.

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jcaz Jan 2, 2018 6:48 PM

Trump played the Times beautifully- they'll wind up eating their own.....

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williambanzai7 jcaz Jan 2, 2018 7:38 PM

He has been playing them for years.

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SmilinJoeFizzion Jan 2, 2018 6:49 PM

(((((((((((((yawn)))))))))))))

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LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 6:49 PM

I realize that I have my own biases, but the fact that the Russian collusion narrative is a cover for the wrongdoing of Hillary, Obama, the FBI, the DOJ, and the DNC is so obvious that anyone who is not willfully blind will see it. Needless-to-say, the three wise monkeys have nothing on the American public thanks to MSM.

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two hoots LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 7:05 PM

It is so obvious and that should be the real question. I have some hair brained suspension about the whole thing, see below.

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LetThemEatRand two hoots Jan 2, 2018 7:13 PM

Not hair-brained. Valid questions.

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RKae LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 7:15 PM

Anyone who is willfully blind = Half the American populace.

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booboo LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 7:40 PM

So if this drunken greek said that the russians had dirt on Hillary the obvious question is why would they not seek a fisa warrant to tap her communications to see what that might be, I mean I am just a fucking dumb country boy but just sayin...

If putin thinks that our intelligence agencies appear to be a gaggle of bumbling spit drooling retards his thoughts are well justified. This shit is starting to worry me, we might just be fucked when it comes to our spooks not being able to find their ass with both hands. I hope they are monitoring zh, if they are... go fuck yourself turncoat faggots.

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Walter White Jan 2, 2018 6:53 PM

its mueller time! he is getting VERY close to the orangeman.

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LetThemEatRand Walter White Jan 2, 2018 6:58 PM

I don't care if you think Trump is the devil himself. Every American should be horrified to think that a sitting President used FISA courts to spy on a President candidate based upon a dossier sourced from Russian sources by the opposing candidate who was the Secretary of State under the sitting President. This makes Watergate look like amateur hour and if they get away with it, we are officially a banana republic.

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Billy the Poet LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 7:02 PM

Bananas? In this weather? Are you mad?

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nmewn Billy the Poet Jan 2, 2018 7:08 PM

Hey! Speaking of cold...

Its so damned cold, I saw Chuck Schumer sticking his hands in his OWN pockets! ;-)

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booboo nmewn Jan 2, 2018 7:43 PM

speaking of bananas and pockets....

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Arnold Billy the Poet Jan 2, 2018 7:12 PM

One food you must avoid...

http://www.nowloss.com/foods-not-to-eat-when-trying-to-lose-weight-diet…

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Billy the Poet LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 7:02 PM

Bananas? In this weather? Are you mad?

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Dilluminati LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 7:22 PM

agree this is what happens in countries run by muslims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim_sodomy_trials

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Billy the Poet Walter White Jan 2, 2018 7:01 PM

Mueller is now going after Irish protestants?

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alexcojones Jan 2, 2018 6:56 PM

Seeing the Fake Media's collective heads explode has been pure entertainment far surpassing any Last Jedi nonsense

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Kayman Jan 2, 2018 6:57 PM

"it appears that the Bureau (FBI) failed to verify Steele’s allegations before the DOJ used some of them to bolster an application for a spying warrant from the FISA court"

What pure Bullshit. The FBI and the DOJ contributed directly to the procurement of the lying, piece-of-shit dossier.

Sharp swords and heads in baskets should be the result of this inside job to rob this country of the democratic will of the Republic.

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nmewn Kayman Jan 2, 2018 7:05 PM

"What pure Bullshit. The FBI and the DOJ contributed directly to the procurement of the lying, piece-of-shit dossier."

Or as they like to say over at FBI counter-intelligence their..."insurance policy" ;-)

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alexcojones Jan 2, 2018 6:57 PM

Brilliant assessment LTER

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silverserfer Jan 2, 2018 6:59 PM

are we shocked? liberals refrence TMZ and Perez Hilton like as such the wikipedia and facts about the best hairstyles and global warming.

like OMG facts are like So boring! Get your butplug out of my coffee Cheryl!

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two hoots Jan 2, 2018 7:02 PM

When you give powerful people to much time to cover/reinvent the truth is so diluted ........ Maybe this is the plan, stall, cover, blame, reinvent, covertly settle, a draw. But why is Trump/Sessions stalling? Not sure I ever heard "rule of law" roll off Trumps lips? And why does Trump mention Huma/jail but not Hillary/jail? Is to give some satisfaction to the public, scapegoats?

Are a couple of highly powerful people, Trump/Clinton, playing high stakes gotcha at the expense of justice, rule of law and everything equality we stand for? Something is terribly wrong with this lingering scenario.

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LetThemEatRand two hoots Jan 2, 2018 7:11 PM

I've given up on Trump as the sword of justice, and I agree that something is rotten in Denmark as it concerns the hands-off approach by Trump and Sessions vis-a-vis Hillary and Obama for that matter. The explanation may be a simple one that few Red Team/Trump supporters want to hear -- Hillary wanted to win at all costs and her team was willing to do anything to help her win, not because Trump is some big threat to the Deep State, but because he was a threat to Hillary and her personal power base (which largely coincides with Obama's personal power base).

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two hoots LetThemEatRand Jan 2, 2018 7:18 PM

We still have the problem of Hillary's all cost has consequences and this is what, at least half, this is about. I'm fairly generic on most things but this justice thing is concerning. Seen to many people ruined for far less.

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two hoots two hoots Jan 2, 2018 7:12 PM

And just maybe there is enough info being leaked, Sessions considering, Congress doing something, to make it all seem "justice" is being pursued.

And Maybe, this is something so big, so corrupt, so unacceptable the American people must never find out?

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Arnold two hoots Jan 2, 2018 7:18 PM

Masters of the Slow Roll is not working well this time.

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Akzed two hoots Jan 2, 2018 7:27 PM

#qanon

Semper Fidelis.

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Bernardo Gui Jan 2, 2018 7:03 PM

Trump should order Sessions to identify, produce and declassify the affidavit the FBI filed with the FISA court to obtain the warrant. Make it public.

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CunnyFunt Jan 2, 2018 7:11 PM

I'm surprised that National Review allowed the writer to wander off its reservation.

Perhaps they are trying to make amends for flaming Trump, but I think it's too late for those cravat-wearing Yale boys.

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Navymugsy CunnyFunt Jan 2, 2018 7:13 PM

Nat Review should have been buried with Buckley. Nothing but elitist twats.

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booboo Navymugsy Jan 2, 2018 7:45 PM

I would add Jesuit elitist twats.

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DuneCreature Jan 2, 2018 7:12 PM

Ex Qs, Me but aren't there things going on outside of DC and NY that need to be looked into?

Like an EO that Trump signed and a bunch of sealed indictments floating around somewhere?

What's up with those stories? ... We can get this drivel on TV.

Where is Jeff Sessions? Doesn't the DoJ hold press briefings anymore? ..... Did Jeff sleep though the New Years celebrations?

Live Hard, Is The Boot And Ankle Bracelet The New DC Fashion Trend Or Is Everyone Slipping On The Ice And Twisting A Hoof All At Once Down On The Frozen Cesspool, I Mean, Reflecting Pool?, Die Free

~ DC v8.4

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Arnold DuneCreature Jan 2, 2018 7:22 PM

Yup, me .
Stay on topic.
Hugs for all you do.

In reply to Ex Qs, Me but aren't there… by DuneCreature

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