11-06-2021, 02:00 AM
Trump?
No...a Hillary/DNC operative.
(source: NR......Sticky approved!)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/d...n-scandal/
Durham Is Steadily Exposing the Real ‘Russia Collusion’ Scandal
No...a Hillary/DNC operative.
(source: NR......Sticky approved!)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/d...n-scandal/
Durham Is Steadily Exposing the Real ‘Russia Collusion’ Scandal
By DAVID HARSAN November 5, 2021 5:50 PM
The media owe the American people an apology, though we won’t hold our breath.
It’s one of the biggest scandals in American political history, and it barely warrants any media coverage.
Donald Trump might have desired a closer relationship with Vladimir Putin, but it was Democrats who had aggressively and successfully disseminated Russian disinformation during and after the 2016 election, manipulating a pliant media and law enforcement, plunging the nation into four years of paranoia meant to undermine trust in the American electoral system.
Special counsel John Durham has now handed down another indictment, arresting Igor Danchenko, a grifter, suspected Russian spy, and primary sub-source for the “Steele Dossier,” the discredited file that was assembled by opposition-research shop Fusion GPS and funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign through its law firm, Perkins Coie.
Not only did the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party operators pay for these uncorroborated allegations, they then spread the lies to government agencies and major media organizations. The candidate herself often perpetuated a conspiracy theory that she almost surely knew was bogus. And because it was Trump, everyone ran with it, including law enforcement.
We know a lawyer at the FBI doctored an email and used it as the basis for a sworn statement to spy on Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page — omitting the fact that the underlying evidence was a partisan document — and that Obama officials unmasked members of the opposition party during an election. Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz found that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications used to spy on Page were riddled with 17 “significant errors.” More important, Horowitz testified that “the FISA applications relied entirely on information from the . . . primary sub source’s reporting to support the allegation that Page was coordinating with the Russian government on 2016 U.S. presidential election activities.” (My italics.)
There were early signs that controversy was a farce. In March 2017, I wrote a tepid piece headlined, “Democrats Shouldn’t Dismiss Nunes’ Spying Claims So Quickly.” At the time, House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes, somewhat ham-fistedly, assembled a memo detailing how the Trump campaign had been spied on and unmasked and that conversations “with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in an intelligence community report” and that the evidence was predicated on a dossier paid for by Democrats. I will save you the hundreds of hyperlinks to liberal commentators calling Nunes a traitor and liar, but let’s just say it was quite the scene.
At the time, Nunes was also battered for failing to abide by proper congressional decorum and for sharing his information with the White House before filling in Democrats. Nunes, granted, should have acted in a less partisan manner. Then again, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, a relentless presence on cable television during this time, not only knew that Nunes was right but lied when claiming Russians had “hacked the election,” and lied again when claiming to be in possession of real-world evidence of criminal conspiracy. There would never be a “credible” investigation. In fact, Schiff didn’t even try to impeach the president for criminal conspiracy related to Russia.
These days, Schiff is the author of a best-selling book, but Nunes is vindicated.
The media owe the American people an apology, though we won’t hold our breath.
It’s one of the biggest scandals in American political history, and it barely warrants any media coverage.
Donald Trump might have desired a closer relationship with Vladimir Putin, but it was Democrats who had aggressively and successfully disseminated Russian disinformation during and after the 2016 election, manipulating a pliant media and law enforcement, plunging the nation into four years of paranoia meant to undermine trust in the American electoral system.
Special counsel John Durham has now handed down another indictment, arresting Igor Danchenko, a grifter, suspected Russian spy, and primary sub-source for the “Steele Dossier,” the discredited file that was assembled by opposition-research shop Fusion GPS and funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign through its law firm, Perkins Coie.
Not only did the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party operators pay for these uncorroborated allegations, they then spread the lies to government agencies and major media organizations. The candidate herself often perpetuated a conspiracy theory that she almost surely knew was bogus. And because it was Trump, everyone ran with it, including law enforcement.
We know a lawyer at the FBI doctored an email and used it as the basis for a sworn statement to spy on Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page — omitting the fact that the underlying evidence was a partisan document — and that Obama officials unmasked members of the opposition party during an election. Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz found that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications used to spy on Page were riddled with 17 “significant errors.” More important, Horowitz testified that “the FISA applications relied entirely on information from the . . . primary sub source’s reporting to support the allegation that Page was coordinating with the Russian government on 2016 U.S. presidential election activities.” (My italics.)
At the time, Nunes was also battered for failing to abide by proper congressional decorum and for sharing his information with the White House before filling in Democrats. Nunes, granted, should have acted in a less partisan manner. Then again, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, a relentless presence on cable television during this time, not only knew that Nunes was right but lied when claiming Russians had “hacked the election,” and lied again when claiming to be in possession of real-world evidence of criminal conspiracy. There would never be a “credible” investigation. In fact, Schiff didn’t even try to impeach the president for criminal conspiracy related to Russia.
These days, Schiff is the author of a best-selling book, but Nunes is vindicated.
