Sketchy firm behind Trump Dossier is Stalling Investigators

[Wry Catcher]

You wonder why I call it a lie of omission, I do so because you ignore the hate generated by the conservative right which influenced Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder. A much more linear line than this most recent event.

How foolish.

I left the Republican party because I saw the same hateful rhetoric coming from them that I'm seeing from Democrats now, aka, this "resistance."

Hodgkinson is yours. Own him. He is a product of your hatred and vitriol, not ours.

I hold no hate for anyone, not even assholes, so you have nothing to worry about.

 

[Wry Catcher]

this would all go away if the clintons were president.

No, I don't think it would. Bill was the only Clinton anyone liked. Hillary was the annoying little brother he had to drag along. Bill lost all his thunder when a real half black guy ran and won the presidential election.

Yet she still won the popular vote

which is great if she wanted to be president of venezuela.

Are you saying that Venezuela has a better democracy than the US?

We aren't a democracy you stupid twit.

We are a Republic which selects are representatives by a democratic process. Thus we are a Democratic Republic. Read COTUS carefully, we elect the electoral college, the members of the Senate and Members of the H. of Rep. To call us anything else is a DAMN LIE!

 

[PredFan]

No, I don't think it would. Bill was the only Clinton anyone liked. Hillary was the annoying little brother he had to drag along. Bill lost all his thunder when a real half black guy ran and won the presidential election.

Yet she still won the popular vote

which is great if she wanted to be president of venezuela.

Are you saying that Venezuela has a better democracy than the US?

We aren't a democracy you stupid twit.

We are a Republic which selects are representatives by a democratic process. Thus we are a Democratic Republic. Read COTUS carefully, we elect the electoral college, the members of the Senate and Members of the H. of Rep. To call us anything else is a DAMN LIE!

Actually, we are a representative republic, and we were never supposed to vote for Senators. But you are right. To call us a democracy is a damn lie.

 

[shockedcanadian]

A very lengthy article that raises questions and debunks the B.S this dossier presented and the stonewalling when trying to answer key questions. A major smear attempt paid for by someone. They were fleeced for fake "intel reports" and either willingly passed it on for political gain in ignorance or did so out of malice and to slander the presidential candidate at the time.

Funny how as time goes on the accusations and resistance arguments against Trump get weaker and less credible:

http://nypost.com/2017/06/24/inside-the-shadowy-intelligence-firm-behind-the-trump-dossier/

A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.

The Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month threatened to subpoena the firm, Fusion GPS, after it refused to answer questions and provide records to the panel identifying who financed the error-ridden dossier, which was circulated during the election and has sparked much of the Russia scandal now engulfing the White House.

What is the company hiding? Fusion GPS describes itself as a “research and strategic intelligence firm” founded by “three former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters.” But congressional sources say it’s actually an opposition-research group for Democrats, and the founders, who are more political activists than journalists, have a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda.

“These weren’t mercenaries or hired guns,” a congressional source familiar with the dossier probe said. “These guys had a vested personal and ideological interest in smearing Trump and boosting Hillary’s chances of winning the White House.”

Fusion GPS was on the payroll of an unidentified Democratic ally of Clinton when it hired a long-retired British spy to dig up dirt on Trump. In 2012, Democrats hired Fusion GPS to uncover dirt on GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. And in 2015, Democrat ally Planned Parenthood retained Fusion GPS to investigate pro-life activists protesting the abortion group.

More, federal records show a key co-founder and partner in the firm was a Hillary Clinton donor and supporter of her presidential campaign.

In September 2016, while Fusion GPS was quietly shopping the dirty dossier on Trump around Washington, its co-founder and partner Peter R. Fritsch contributed at least $1,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund and the Hillary For America campaign, Federal Election Commission data show. His wife also donated money to Hillary’s campaign.

Property records show that in June 2016, as Clinton allies bankrolled Fusion GPS, Fritsch bought a six-bedroom, five-bathroom home in Bethesda, Md., for $2.3 million.

Fritsch did not respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Fusion GPS said the firm’s work is confidential.

Sources say Fusion GPS had its own interest, beyond those of its clients, in promulgating negative gossip about Trump.

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Never mind that none of the rumors were backed by evidence or even credible sourcing (don’t bother trying to confirm his bed-wetting yarn, Steele advised, as “all direct witnesses have been silenced”). Steele reinforced his paying customers’ worst fears about Trump, and they rewarded him for it with a whopping $250,000 in payments.

But it’s now clear his “intelligence reports,” which together run more than 35-pages long, were for the most part worthless. And the clients who paid Fusion GPS (which claims to go “beyond standard due diligence”) for them got taken to the cleaners.

Steele’s most sensational allegations remain unconfirmed. For instance, his claim that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen held a “clandestine meeting” on the alleged hacking scheme in Prague with “Kremlin officials” in August 2016 unraveled when Cohen denied ever visiting Prague, his passport showed no stamps showing he left or entered the US at the time, witnesses accounted for his presence here, and Czech authorities found no evidence Cohen went to Prague.

Steele hadn’t worked in Moscow since the 1990s and didn’t actually travel there to gather intelligence on Trump firsthand. He relied on third-hand “friend of friend” sourcing. In fact, most of his claimed Russian sources spoke not directly to him but “in confidence to a trusted compatriot” who, in turn, spoke to Steele — and always anonymously.

But his main source may have been Google. Most of the information branded as “intelligence” was merely rehashed from news headlines or cut and pasted — replete with errors — from Wikip

 

[TemplarKormac]

You wonder why I call it a lie of omission, I do so because you ignore the hate generated by the conservative right which influenced Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder. A much more linear line than this most recent event.

How foolish.

I left the Republican party because I saw the same hateful rhetoric coming from them that I'm seeing from Democrats now, aka, this "resistance."

Hodgkinson is yours. Own him. He is a product of your hatred and vitriol, not ours.

I hold no hate for anyone, not even assholes, so you have nothing to worry about.

You hold no hate for anyone, yet you're calling them assholes. You are not to be taken seriously anymore.

I shan't suffer the words of fools any longer. You are a truly detestable individual.

 

[Jackson]

Good find and analysis, Shocked.

 

[washamericom]

Eleven Million More of We the People voted against Trump than for him.

the cemetery is filled with eleven million democrat voters jake.

 

[washamericom]

No, I don't think it would. Bill was the only Clinton anyone liked. Hillary was the annoying little brother he had to drag along. Bill lost all his thunder when a real half black guy ran and won the presidential election.

Yet she still won the popular vote

In California which is a lib mecca anyway.

you mean where Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger were from? Have you ever been to California?

I can't tell if Owl is trying to be funny.

There's a reason why there are no right wing comedians

nancy pelosi is a right wing comic.

 

[washamericom]

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And another day of AltRat Right tears begin. Such will be all the days of their lives under Trump.

You morons are losing daily and you think we're crying?

"winning by losing"

--LOL

"losing from behind" heh....

 

[washamericom]

Yet she still won the popular vote

which is great if she wanted to be president of venezuela.

Are you saying that Venezuela has a better democracy than the US?

We aren't a democracy you stupid twit.

We are a Republic which selects are representatives by a democratic process. Thus we are a Democratic Republic. Read COTUS carefully, we elect the electoral college, the members of the Senate and Members of the H. of Rep. To call us anything else is a DAMN LIE!

Actually, we are a representative republic, and we were never supposed to vote for Senators. But you are right. To call us a democracy is a damn lie.

it's a Damnocracy.

 

[JakeStarkey]

^^ ^^ Your Orange criminal Trump barely squeaked in, wash. The great majority of America does not want him.

 

[Care4all]

the NYPost is a tabloid, and tool for the President.

the whole article was ...unnamed sources.

Stop. Are you seriously playing the "b-b-but they used unnamed sources!" card, C4?

What about all the times WaPo and CNN used "unnamed sources"? Were you okay with that? Seriously?

Are you saying the unnamed sources in the Washington Post and CNN are just fine? Ok to use to promote their stories?

 

[g5000]

Stop. Are you seriously playing the "b-b-but they used unnamed sources!" card, C4?

O'rly?

Hmmmm:

Lol and what have Democrats been doing these past five months?

Calling for Trump to be impeached and/or accusing him of treason for so far unsubstantiated claims of Trump colluding with Russia.

Where were your sources? Oh yeah, they were "anonymous".

.

 

[jon_berzerk]

^^ ^^ Your Orange criminal Trump barely squeaked in, wash. The great majority of America does not want him.

306 to 232 is not barely squeaking by --LOL

 

[TemplarKormac]

the NYPost is a tabloid, and tool for the President.

the whole article was ...unnamed sources.

Stop. Are you seriously playing the "b-b-but they used unnamed sources!" card, C4?

What about all the times WaPo and CNN used "unnamed sources"? Were you okay with that? Seriously?

Are you saying the unnamed sources in the Washington Post and CNN are just fine? Ok to use to promote their stories?

Uh... no. That's not what I meant.

It's quite hypocritical to call someone out for using unnamed sources while citing articles yourself which use them.

That's why I started avoiding articles which cite unnamed sources. I made that mistake, won't be doing it again.

WaPo and CNN have embarrassed themselves by doing that, however. But you don't seem to mind.

 

[jillian]

Things keep looking worse for all the perpetrators behind the whole "Russia hack" witch hunt. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve:

http://nypost.com/2017/06/24/inside-the-shadowy-intelligence-firm-behind-the-trump-dossier/​

Senate investigators are demanding to see records of communications between Fusion GPS and the FBI and the Justice Department, including any contacts with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, now under congressional investigation for possibly obstructing the Hillary Clinton email probe, and deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who is under investigation by the Senate and the Justice inspector general for failing to recuse himself despite financial and political connections to the Clinton campaign through his Democrat activist wife. Senate investigators have singled out McCabe as the FBI official who negotiated with Steele.​

awww... you spread russian propaganda so cute.

 

[jillian]

^^ ^^ Your Orange criminal Trump barely squeaked in, wash. The great majority of America does not want him.

306 to 232 is not barely squeaking by --LOL

yes, it is... one of the lowest wins in recent history.

but you keep telling yourself people don't hate the orange sociopathic treasonous loon

 

[CrusaderFrank]

^^ ^^ Your Orange criminal Trump barely squeaked in, wash. The great majority of America does not want him.

Just another 7 1/2 years before your Donald Trump nightmare ends

 

[jon_berzerk]

^^ ^^ Your Orange criminal Trump barely squeaked in, wash. The great majority of America does not want him.

306 to 232 is not barely squeaking by --LOL

yes, it is... one of the lowest wins in recent history.

but you keep telling yourself people don't hate the orange sociopathic treasonous loon

stop it

she got smoked

you know it

everyone knows it

 

[Crixus]

^^ ^^ Your Orange criminal Trump barely squeaked in, wash. The great majority of America does not want him.

But they got him and there he will stay for 8 years. It's a done deal. I remember way back when Obama was elected s surly a I was to end up in a FEMA camp with "Infidel" tattooed to my forehead where I would be forced to hand over my guns and eat human fetuses. Half Black Jesus was the harbinger of death and doom for all white non democrats. Well here we are. The world didn't end. The rivers didn't flow backwards and I still own all the guns I had to begin with including the ones in pieces. All was well, all is well. Y'all just need to relax.