John Helmer — The CIA Bull In Glenn Simpson’s Russia Shop

Another case in which investigators fail to ask the right questions.

Dances with Bears
The CIA Bull In Glenn Simpson’s Russia Shop
John Helmer

Moon of Alabama — British Involvement In "Trump Dossier" Needs Further Investigation

Michael Sussmann, a lawyer from the same firm that hired Fusion GPS on order of Democrats, hired the Crowdstrike cyber-outlet to investigate the leak of DNC emails. Crowdstrike and the DNC denied the FBI access to the relevant servers but asserted that "Russian hacking" was the source of the leak....

The fake dossier, paid for by the Democrats, was used by the FBI under Obama to get FISA warrants to spy on Republican party operatives.

We noted in January that the dossier was additionally used by the British and American deep state to sabotage Trump's plans for better relations with Russia (see original for source quotes):

Anyone see a pattern here?

Moon reminds us of the history. It's a story of intrigue that will likely be a movie someday.

Was this an attempted coup d'etat?

And it appears that MI6 and the British government was involved, too.

Putting it all together, the bipartisan establishment worked to undermine that non-establishment candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, and then sought to undermine Trump's presidency.

These are very serious allegations.

Is the Russiagate brouhaha designed not only to undermine democracy but also to distract from and cover up the attempt to do so? Were the British involved to make this operation more difficult to trace?

The last Steele report was not paid for by the DNC. It was delivered to British government and to John McCain. The purpose of this last report was to plant false evidence that Trump paid for "Russian hacking". There is a strong cooperation between U.S. and British intelligence.

Why were the highest levels of the British government involved in the "private investigation" that resulted in the Steele dossier. Did the Brits act on their own initiative or were they cut-outs for U.S. intelligence circles, especially for Obama's consigliere and CIA director John Brennan?

It his time for Congress to dig deeper into the undue British influence in this whole affair.

The Republicans are on the case.

Moon of Alabama
British Involvement In "Trump Dossier" Needs Further Investigation

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Jonathan Easley

Publius Tacitus — The Bonnie and Clyde of US politics

I can hardly wait for the book and movie. Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction.

Publius Tacitus recounts the twists and turns and the still unanswered questions.

Stay tuned. This story has legs.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
The Bonnie and Clyde of US politics

Publius Tacitus

Mark Hosenball — Firm behind Trump dossier declines to respond to House panel's subpoena

The U.S. political research firm that commissioned a dossier on Donald Trump while he was running for president said on Monday it would not comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.

Reuters
Firm behind Trump dossier declines to respond to House panel's subpoena
Mark Hosenball

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The three co-founders of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm responsible for overseeing the creation of the infamous “Trump dossier”, will refuse to comply with a subpoena ordered by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, according to a letter from their attorneys originally obtained by Business Insider.

But experts say the argument their lawyers are using to ask that they be excused relies on shaky legal grounds, and is unlikely to hold.Zero Hedge

Firm Behind "Trump Dossier" Refuses To Comply With Congressional Subpoena
Tyler Durden

Business Insider
The founders of the firm behind the Trump-Russia dossier say they'll refuse to testify before the House Intelligence Committee
Natasha Bertrand

Good luck, guys. You are now in the crosshairs.

Enrico Braun — Putin: Fake News Writers Worse Than Prostitutes - Trump Doesn't Need Either

At the risk of being politically incorrect:

Basically, Putin says, Donald Trump had the opportunity to bang any woman he wanted at Miss Universe - what the heck would he need with a prostitute? Although naturally, Russia provides the world's best.…

Hard to argue with such brutally flawless logic. And it's just like something Trump himself might have said.

Somebody remind me how Putin and Trump end up NOT getting along again?

Russia Insider
Putin: Fake News Writers Worse Than Prostitutes - Trump Doesn't Need Either

Enrico Braun

Richard Kochetov — When Going to Bed With Dogs Is News, Getting Up With Fleas Is a Scoop – Here’s the One About Trump’s Bed, Putin’s Bed

A close examination of the "Trump dossier."

Dances with Bears
When Going to Bed With Dogs Is News, Getting Up With Fleas Is a Scoop – Here’s the One About Trump’s Bed, Putin’s Bed
Richard Kochetov

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Deciphering the scandalous rumors about Trump in Russia
Editor

Larry C. Johnson — Inside the Dossier Smear of Donald Trump

I want to take you step by step thru the so-called “Dossier” on Donald Trump, US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP’S ACTIVITIES IN RUSSIA AND COMPROMISING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KREMLIN.

This is an absurd but dangerous document. It is presented with the allure of presenting some insider information about the secret, nefarious activities of Donald Trump. But a careful reading of the material exposes some glaring inconsistencies and oddities.

Another important consideration, one that has been lost in much of the media reporting, is that this is not a “single” document. It is a collection of 16 separate reports, starting on the 20 June 2016 and ending on 13 December 2016. Here is just one of the “oddities”–John McCain supposedly sent a staffer to London to pick up the “Dossier” in November and then turned it over to the FBI on 9 December. How can you give the FBI a report that is dated the “13th of December” on the 9th of December?

That is just one of the problems....

No Quarter
Inside the Dossier Smear of Donald Trump
Larry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations (1984-1989)

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The Democrats and #NeverTrumpers are getting traction with the big lie that Trump is an agent of Vladimir Putin and that Russian intelligence manipulated the election to help Trump. How? By repeating the lie over and over. That’s the problem. If these sore losers were asked to produce facts, sources or evidence then the propaganda meme falls apart.

I am belaboring this point for a very simple reason–senior members of the intelligence community, including Jim Clapper and John Brennan and other senior leaders are engaged in a concerted international effort to discredit and delegitimize Donald Trump as President. If they could have their way, Trump would be forced to step down before taking the oath of office next Friday.

I realize how crazy it sounds to assert such a thing (i.e., that the leaders of our nation’s intelligence services are conspiring and scheming to try to prevent Donald Trump from taking office), but it is true.…

Exactly How Did Russia Swing the Election to Trump?