2aguy
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CNN came out last night with all star coverage of a reported scandal involving Trump and the Russians...and the more people are looking into it...the more fake it looks......
Fake News Jumps Fake Shark
But that is just a warmup, apparently. The story Paul noted below about the supposed Russian dossier of compromising information about Trump is looking phonier by the moment. Without even referring to the critics who are calling it a hoax, there are a number of obvious peculiarities in the document that has been released to call its authenticity into question. I’ve read a lot of declassified CIA reports of this kind over the years, and this one looks off. Way off.
First of all, it’s called a “Company Intelligence Report”? I know the CIA is often referred to as “The Company,” but I doubt they use that shorthand on documents like this. I don’t recall ever seeing one like that before. It’s not even clear that this document supposedly came from the CIA. It is being reported in a few places that it came from some private sector organization, or a contractor to the CIA. But who would call such a thing a “Company Intelligence Report”? A third-rate, wannabe thriller writer probably.
Second, there is something plainly odd about the paragraph about Trump booking the same suite at the Moscow Ritz Carlton as the Obamas. The report says the Russians have all of the rooms at the Ritz bugged for audio and video, implying they have footage of Trump’s alleged disgusting acts. Stop right there: Would the Obamas ever stay in a room bugged by the Russians? Would the Secret Service allow it? Wouldn’t the room have been swept? I suppose it can be argued the bugs were removed for Obamas visit and reinstalled for Trump, but this stretches credibility.
Third, the paragraph of “detail” on the bottom of page 13 about how Sergei IVANOV “was angry at the recent turn of events” doesn’t sound at all like the kind of writing in intelligence reports that come out of Langley, even if they had actual audio tape of IVANOV being angry. The whole paragraph reeks of fakery.
I’ll bet this story falls apart faster than a Dan Rather memo on national guard service.
Fake News Jumps Fake Shark
But that is just a warmup, apparently. The story Paul noted below about the supposed Russian dossier of compromising information about Trump is looking phonier by the moment. Without even referring to the critics who are calling it a hoax, there are a number of obvious peculiarities in the document that has been released to call its authenticity into question. I’ve read a lot of declassified CIA reports of this kind over the years, and this one looks off. Way off.
First of all, it’s called a “Company Intelligence Report”? I know the CIA is often referred to as “The Company,” but I doubt they use that shorthand on documents like this. I don’t recall ever seeing one like that before. It’s not even clear that this document supposedly came from the CIA. It is being reported in a few places that it came from some private sector organization, or a contractor to the CIA. But who would call such a thing a “Company Intelligence Report”? A third-rate, wannabe thriller writer probably.
Second, there is something plainly odd about the paragraph about Trump booking the same suite at the Moscow Ritz Carlton as the Obamas. The report says the Russians have all of the rooms at the Ritz bugged for audio and video, implying they have footage of Trump’s alleged disgusting acts. Stop right there: Would the Obamas ever stay in a room bugged by the Russians? Would the Secret Service allow it? Wouldn’t the room have been swept? I suppose it can be argued the bugs were removed for Obamas visit and reinstalled for Trump, but this stretches credibility.
Third, the paragraph of “detail” on the bottom of page 13 about how Sergei IVANOV “was angry at the recent turn of events” doesn’t sound at all like the kind of writing in intelligence reports that come out of Langley, even if they had actual audio tape of IVANOV being angry. The whole paragraph reeks of fakery.
I’ll bet this story falls apart faster than a Dan Rather memo on national guard service.
