Saturday, November 9, 2019

Russiagate: Steele Is At It Again

Shades of Russiagate. Ace, OMG: Christopher Steele Has Written Another "Dossier," This One Alleging That Russian Spies Attempted to Collude With Conservative British MPs, Including... Boris Johnson. 
The Guardian, on this past Monday:
PM accused of cover-up over report on Russian meddling in UK politics
Boris Johnson was on Monday night accused of presiding over a cover-up after it emerged that No 10 refused to clear the publication of a potentially incendiary report examining Russian infiltration in British politics, including the Conservative party.
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Fresh evidence has also emerged of attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating leading Tories including Johnson himself.
It can now be revealed that Sergey Nalobin -- who once described the future prime minister as "our good friend"-- lives in a Moscow apartment block known as the "FSB house" because it houses so many employees from the Kremlin's main spy agency.
The committee’s report is based on analysis from Britain’s intelligence agencies, as well as third-party experts such as the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, and is subject to a final clearance from Downing Street. .
So, here we have:

* A report partly compiled by Christopher Steele
* A "whistleblower"
* An attempt to claim that because this person knows this person and that person knows a Russian, the Russians have kompromat
* An attempt to claim that the Russians are in league with the party that's been opposing them for 100 years, and to claim that they're working against the party that's been promoting Soviet/Russian interests and in fact has frequently produced actual bona-fide Soviet agents.
* An attempt to weaponize this bullshit to swing an upcoming election

Wait wait wait wait wait -- I'm pretty sure I've seen some of this before.
Apparently Fusion GPS has a drawer full of fill-in-the-blank dossiers waiting for Christopher Steele to sign off on them as the "intelligence" expert.

Chuck Ross at Da Caller, Feinstein Reunites With Ex-Staffer Who Worked With Fusion GPS On Trump-Russia Investigation. Birds of a feather, shit together.

Da Hill, Bannon testifies that Trump campaign saw Stone as link to WikiLeaks, Daily Mail, Roger Stone was Donald Trump's campaign's 'access point' to WikiLeaks and told me it was going to 'hurt Hillary Clinton,' Steve Bannon tells dirty-trickster's trial - saying 2016 election team had to 'use every tool' to win. Which would not be illegal, even if true (and it probably isn't) Roger's real crime was supporting Trump. The only reason the Mueller team didn't invite Bannon to an indictment was that he managed to keep his story straight.

From sundance at CTH, Benjamin Wittes ‘White-knights’ For Lisa Page…
Earlier today Lawfare founder Benjamin Wittes sent a curious tweet appearing to defend former DOJ lawyer Lisa Page; who was previously assigned to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.   The tweet comes out of the blue; and there’s nothing currently in the public sphere or headlines about Ms. Page.   It seems rather odd:

My hunch is Ms. Page may have spoken honestly to Horowitz or Durham about her experience as part of the ‘small group’.  If accurate, and considering McCabe threw Page under the bus to protect himself against an internal investigation about his media leaks, Ms. Page’s current disposition may very well be adverse to the interests of the coup plotters.
And yet, Flynn was specifically charged with, and pleaded guilty to lying about the contents of his conversation with Kislyak. Judge Sullivan should throw out the case, and then order Strzok and McCabe charged with fabricating evidence.

Rushbo on the leaker's lawyer, Whistleblower’s Lawyer Admits It’s a Coup! Sharyl Attkisson, “Coup has started”: Tweet by “whistleblower” attorney 10 days after Trump took office
. . . Read more: What would the intelligence community’s “insurance policy” against Trump look like? Click the link below.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/401116-what-would-the-intelligence-communitys-insurance-policy-against-trump
True Pundit, WIKILEAKS BOMBSHELL: Whistleblower's Attorney Zaid Worked With CIA to Imprison Client. If true, he needs to be disbarred.

Monica Showalter at AmThink, Scrub-a-dub-dub: Did the whistleblower scrub his social media footprint before filing his complaint? Of course he did. Consciousness of guilt?
These things take time and organization. They also signal that far-left radicals know that their internet past stinks. They're loaded with things that would discredit them if they were found out — things such as talk of violence, talk of Trump-hate, and crazy socialist dictator–worship. They want to portray themselves as Little Miss Muffets, so scrub-a-dub-dub...
But why, when you have Mark Zuckerberg covering for you? Facebook Removes News Reporting, Mention of Alleged ‘Whistleblower’s’ Identity (Breitbart). Yahoo, Why are Republicans hell-bent on exposing Trump whistleblower? A better question is why aren't the media? They're supposed to be seeking the truth, regardless of where it falls. Insty,
WaPoo has a double feature on the whistleblowers with Senior White House official said he had ‘no doubt’ of quid pro quo, latest transcripts show. I take issue with calling a Lt. Col "a Senior Whitehouse official". He was a scribe. And a story that is not much but a puff piece, Alexander Vindman: Soviet emigre and decorated U.S. Army officer wanted to be as American as can be. Now the president questions his motives.

Jeff Dunetz at The Lid, Senators Johnson & Grassley Tell State Dept.To Give Them All Hunter Biden Documents
Fox, Yovanovitch communicated with Dem staffer on 'delicate' issue after complaint, emails show, despite testimony Ask Michael Cohen what can happen when you lie to Congress.  Capt. Ed at Hot Air, Zeldin: Yovanovitch “Did Not Accurately Answer” Under Oath About Contact With House Dem Staffers. Lock her up!

Allah Pundit at Hot Air whines Fall Guy: I Barely Know This “Gordon Sondland” Person, Says Trump. The President deals with a lot of people he barely knows. It's part of the job.

Sundance at CTH, Devin Nunes Formally Requests Testimony from Adam Schiff…. I'm sure that will go far. And, Jim Jordan Joins House Intelligence Committee – Interim Replacement for Rep. Rick Crawford… Good.

Oh goody, presents! Democrats' new moves show House could wrap up impeachment by Christmas (CNN). No Pasaran! The Democrats have decided not so much that Trump committed a crime as that he is a crime; his very existence is criminal, which is why the plot to impeach him started before the inauguration. The Last Tradition, Sen. Kennedy on Kangaroo impeachment inquiry: It's not only dumb, it's dangerous.



Althouse, "How much does anyone—on either side of this yawning national divide—care about the evidence if they know in advance how they plan to interpret it?" "Susan B. Glasser asks in The New Yorker in "Is Trump Already Winning on Impeachment?""From Patricia McCarthy at AmThink, The plot to impeach Trump already is falling apart.
As Schiff conducts his cloistered interrogations of a variety of alleged "witnesses" who are not witnesses at all, Trump supporters are supposed to melt in fear of Trump's removal from office. All but one or two of these people were not privy to the phone conversation. Some have never once met or spoken to the President. They are just a string of people Schiff has conscripted who disagree with Trump's manner of conducting foreign policy without their considered expert advice. Schiff actually thinks that parading these men and women before his little intel committee in secret is going to convince someone, anyone, that Trump should be impeached. It is in fact convincing Americans that this entire process is not only unfair but an unconstitutional, a perversion of justice.
AllahPundit, in a new paywalled area of Hot Air,  It’d Be Ridiculous To Impeach Trump, Says … Nikki Haley. And Hot Air catches the NYT thinking wistfully, Impeachment Inquiry Tests Ties Between Barr And Trump

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