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If you haven't heard about the New Yawk Slimes basically admitting that they, and the entire dimocrap/media/leftist complex got snookered by some 2nd rate con-man, it's here
In case you missed it on Friday, even the shabby DNC front company, the NYT, is now forced to admit that the entire dossier that Jake Tapper so proudly reported on may be nothing more than the product of a Russian Disinformation Campaign aimed at reducing confidence in US elections.
Ace of Spades HQ
Agents did not believe that either the source or Mr. Steele was deliberately inventing things, according to the former official. How the dossier ended up loaded with dubious or exaggerated details remains uncertain, but the document may be the result of a high-stakes game of telephone, in which rumors and hearsay were passed from source to source.
Another possibility -- one that Mr. Steele has not ruled out -- could be Russian disinformation. That would mean that in addition to carrying out an effective attack on the Clinton campaign, Russian spymasters hedged their bets and placed a few land mines under Mr. Trump’s presidency as well.
Oleg D. Kalugin, a former K.G.B. general who now lives outside Washington, saw that as plausible. "Russia has huge experience in spreading false information," he said.
Mr. Steele declined to comment for this article.
...
Last year, in a deposition in a lawsuit filed against Buzzfeed, Mr. Steele emphasized that his reports consisted of unverified intelligence. Asked whether he took into account that some claims might be Russian fabrications, he replied, "Yes."
F.B.I. agents considered whether Russia had polluted the stream of intelligence, but did not give it much credence, according to the former official.
But that is an issue to which multiple inquiries are likely to return. There has been much chatter among intelligence experts that Mr. Steele's Russian informants could have been pressured to feed him disinformation.
Daniel Hoffman, a former C.I.A. officer who served in Moscow, said he had long suspected the dossier was contaminated by Russian fabrications. The goal, he said, would be to deepen American divisions and blur the line between truth and falsehood.
"How many times have hearings on Capitol Hill used information from the dossier?" Mr. Hoffman said. "How much damage has it already caused?"
Good luck deciphering that load of garbage.
And here's the man that CNN touted as our Next President...
Super-dim. Destroyer of Trump, hero to all, worshiped by women everywhere and the envy of all dim males (like there's any left)
Avenatti Accused by Grand Jury of Lying to Another Client, Claiming a $2 Million Settlement Hadn't Been Paid, and Using That $2 Million for Himself to Go Sharsies on a... Private Jet
—Ace of Spades
You may have heard of this jet; the feds seized it.
The scheme described here by John Sexton is similar to the con Avenatti ran on the paraplegic client: After having gotten a settlement, supposedly for the client, Avenatti took the money for himself. Most of the settlement was paid up-front, but Avenatti told the client, falsely, that it would all be paid monthly over eight years.
Avenatti then made some of those payments out of the settlement money he already had his greedy little paws on.
But he only made some of the "monthly scheduled payments." From the LA Times:
Avenatti wound up making 11 payments to Gardner, misrepresenting them as Whiteside's monthly installments, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. By the time the payments stopped in June 2018, Avenatti had given her about $194,000, prosecutors say.
For the next nine months, they allege, Avenatti deceived Gardner, telling her that Whiteside was breaching the settlement by skipping payments.
$194,000 out of a $3 million settlement.
Meanwhile, Avenatti was the co-owner of a private jet.
And now, boys and girls, the coup de gras........
Big League Politics: NXIVM Sex Cult Employees Claim that Kirsten Gillibrand's Father, Stepmother, and Cousins Were Involved in the Sex Cult
—Ace of Spades
Everyone's shocked to discover cultlike behavior among Democrat NPCs, I'm sure.
But we'll have to see if this stuff pans out.
Gillibrand's father served as a broker between NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere -- whose initials were branded on his female sex slaves -- and then-New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer to resolve Raniere’s financial problems with the state, according to ex-employee whistleblower Joseph O’Hara, whose revelations are printed below.
Gillibrand's stepmother Gwenn Belcourt got "hooked" on the cult as did Bill Clinton’s close friend Richard Mays, according to the whistleblower. Nancy Salzman, the NXIVM president, acted as a personal "guru" for Gillibrand's stepmother.
In case you missed it on Friday, even the shabby DNC front company, the NYT, is now forced to admit that the entire dossier that Jake Tapper so proudly reported on may be nothing more than the product of a Russian Disinformation Campaign aimed at reducing confidence in US elections.
Ace of Spades HQ
Agents did not believe that either the source or Mr. Steele was deliberately inventing things, according to the former official. How the dossier ended up loaded with dubious or exaggerated details remains uncertain, but the document may be the result of a high-stakes game of telephone, in which rumors and hearsay were passed from source to source.
Another possibility -- one that Mr. Steele has not ruled out -- could be Russian disinformation. That would mean that in addition to carrying out an effective attack on the Clinton campaign, Russian spymasters hedged their bets and placed a few land mines under Mr. Trump’s presidency as well.
Oleg D. Kalugin, a former K.G.B. general who now lives outside Washington, saw that as plausible. "Russia has huge experience in spreading false information," he said.
Mr. Steele declined to comment for this article.
...
Last year, in a deposition in a lawsuit filed against Buzzfeed, Mr. Steele emphasized that his reports consisted of unverified intelligence. Asked whether he took into account that some claims might be Russian fabrications, he replied, "Yes."
F.B.I. agents considered whether Russia had polluted the stream of intelligence, but did not give it much credence, according to the former official.
But that is an issue to which multiple inquiries are likely to return. There has been much chatter among intelligence experts that Mr. Steele's Russian informants could have been pressured to feed him disinformation.
Daniel Hoffman, a former C.I.A. officer who served in Moscow, said he had long suspected the dossier was contaminated by Russian fabrications. The goal, he said, would be to deepen American divisions and blur the line between truth and falsehood.
"How many times have hearings on Capitol Hill used information from the dossier?" Mr. Hoffman said. "How much damage has it already caused?"
Good luck deciphering that load of garbage.
And here's the man that CNN touted as our Next President...
Super-dim. Destroyer of Trump, hero to all, worshiped by women everywhere and the envy of all dim males (like there's any left)
Avenatti Accused by Grand Jury of Lying to Another Client, Claiming a $2 Million Settlement Hadn't Been Paid, and Using That $2 Million for Himself to Go Sharsies on a... Private Jet
—Ace of Spades
You may have heard of this jet; the feds seized it.
The scheme described here by John Sexton is similar to the con Avenatti ran on the paraplegic client: After having gotten a settlement, supposedly for the client, Avenatti took the money for himself. Most of the settlement was paid up-front, but Avenatti told the client, falsely, that it would all be paid monthly over eight years.
Avenatti then made some of those payments out of the settlement money he already had his greedy little paws on.
But he only made some of the "monthly scheduled payments." From the LA Times:
Avenatti wound up making 11 payments to Gardner, misrepresenting them as Whiteside's monthly installments, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. By the time the payments stopped in June 2018, Avenatti had given her about $194,000, prosecutors say.
For the next nine months, they allege, Avenatti deceived Gardner, telling her that Whiteside was breaching the settlement by skipping payments.
$194,000 out of a $3 million settlement.
Meanwhile, Avenatti was the co-owner of a private jet.
And now, boys and girls, the coup de gras........
Big League Politics: NXIVM Sex Cult Employees Claim that Kirsten Gillibrand's Father, Stepmother, and Cousins Were Involved in the Sex Cult
—Ace of Spades
Everyone's shocked to discover cultlike behavior among Democrat NPCs, I'm sure.
But we'll have to see if this stuff pans out.
Gillibrand's father served as a broker between NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere -- whose initials were branded on his female sex slaves -- and then-New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer to resolve Raniere’s financial problems with the state, according to ex-employee whistleblower Joseph O’Hara, whose revelations are printed below.
Gillibrand's stepmother Gwenn Belcourt got "hooked" on the cult as did Bill Clinton’s close friend Richard Mays, according to the whistleblower. Nancy Salzman, the NXIVM president, acted as a personal "guru" for Gillibrand's stepmother.