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Russia collusion story was written in 2007
Report: Russia 'Dossier' Based on 10-Year-Old Wall Street Journal Articles
the history of the “Steele dossier” doesn’t begin with Christopher Steele or Nellie Ohr in the summer of 2016; it begins with a story that Glenn Simpson and Mary Jacoby co-wrote for TheWall Street Journal dated April 17, 2007. “How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington” details how prominent Republicans, including the 1996 Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole could collude with Russians...
It uses the exact same names, the exact same bank, and the exact same story...
The point is, it's the exact same story, except Bob Dole was small potatoes to them, so they recycled it 10 years later to the T, and replaced Dole with Trump, thinking Clinton would win, and it would never surface or matter.
Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele worked for the exact man who wrote the exact same story a decade earlier, Glenn Simpson.
Let's begin with research on the researcher. Simpson is an investigative journalist turned — something. In 2009, he left the Wall Street Journal and, after one entrepreneurial false start, hung out a shingle for Fusion GPS. According to Simpson, its stock in trade is "business intelligence."
A close reading of Glenn Simpson's Trump-Russia testimony
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
JAN 14, 2018 | 4:00 AM
A close reading of Glenn Simpson's Trump-Russia testimony
Former Wall Street Journal journalist and co-founder of the research firm Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson arrives to testify before a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Nov. 14. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
Glenn Simpson's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, released this week, is a tale of two research projects. One is about the financier turned criminal-justice crusader William F. Browder. The other is about the American president, Donald J. Trump. Taken together, they shed light on some of the darkest corners of l'Affaire Russe. But what Simpson's testimony most starkly reveals are the hazards that journalists and politicians alike encounter when they stop working for the public — and start working for clients with tendentious personal agendas.
Let's begin with research on the researcher. Simpson is an investigative journalist turned — something. In 2009, he left the Wall Street Journal and, after one entrepreneurial false start, hung out a shingle for Fusion GPS. According to Simpson, its stock in trade is "business intelligence."
Simpson insists he's still an investigative reporter, in quest of nothing but the facts. At Fusion GPS, however, he works for corporations, individual billionaires and governments — figures who, unlike newspapers, pay real money. For the first time, there is one entity Simpson is not working for: readers.
In his testimony, Simpson comes off as a mercenary for hire by anyone with fat stacks of bitcoin.
Look.. I've heard every single iteration of "it's a witch hunt" that you guys put out.. NONE of them have born fruit.. This crap will fall by the wayside too..
Nahhh.. It's NOT cause I know about this story.. It's cause I'm thinking Mueller has better things to do than to perpetrate a hoax..
Look.. I've heard every single iteration of "it's a witch hunt" that you guys put out.. NONE of them have born fruit.. This crap will fall by the wayside too..
Really? A lot of people have been exposed and fired. Maybe you need to ignore the plethera of texts for a psychological reason. That's your business. Rosenstein admitted this week that he said he would try to get the 25th on Trump and is being accused as we speak. It's done nothing but bear fruit...
In Comey’s case, shortly after he was “given access” to the Bush-era NSA surveillance program as deputy attorney general, he notoriously pushed for changes — essentially tweaking the program’s “legal rationale.” These changes gave rise to the FISA rubber stamp while Comey went on to take a lucrative job with the largest spy contractor in history: Lockheed Martin.
We know Comey’s net worth in 2003 was $206,000, which skyrocketed when he raked in well over $10 million in the private sector before he returned to lead the FBI in 2013. Comey bagged $6.1 million in a single year at Lockheed Martin.
I'm sorry... I don't read your links.. In order to BELIEVE what you do, and link me to the SITES you do, would REQUIRE that you believe the FBI and the Justice Department went totally fucking nuts and are in the tank for Obama, Hillary and the Democrats..
In order to BELIEVE what you do, and link me to the SITES you do, would REQUIRE that you believe the FBI and the Justice Department went totally fucking nuts and are in the tank for Obama, Hillary and the Democrats..
I simply don't believe that.
Then you haven't read the texts or studied why many from head positions in the FBI are gone.
You also appear to not be studied on the relationship of Comey and Mueller to George Bush, which was antagonistic as compared to Comey's relationship to Obama, which was fawning. It's a rather bizarre study in hindsight.
COMEY VS BUSH
Comey had enlisted Bob Mueller, then FBI director, as an ally. Both men apparently told George W. Bush privately they’d quit rather than extend the program. “Here I stand, I can do no other,” Comey told Bush. That’s Martin Luther’s iconic line, and although in 2016 Hillary Clinton would come to see Comey as more akin to Judas than Luther, one thing is apparent: Jim Comey is a government appointee who thinks of himself in a manner many people find grandiose. Bush backed down in the face of the Comey-Mueller insurrection.
COMEY VS OBAMA
The emotional moment Comey shared with Obama after the election
-ABC NEWS
"I came to deeply respect him, and his higher loyalty to the values I care a lot about," Comey said.
You also appear to not be studied on the relationship of Comey and Mueller to George Bush,
Hello again, bront:
Again, in order to BELIEVE the stuff you do, you'd have to believe the ENTIRE fucking government is CORRUPT and in Obamas pocket.
I DON'T believe that..
What worries me, is that if you actually BELIEVE that kind of Alex Jones, FOX News, Rush Limprod CONSPSIRACY bull shit, you WILL take your guns to Washington WHEN the Mueller report is released.. It's gonna be mayhem..
Here's some more information.. What you THINK you know about Mueller has been PROPAGANDIZED into your head BY Russia.. You don't even know you're being used.. Russia WANTS you to take your guns to Washington..
excon
PS> Look.. I've been wrong about my government before.. They've made some BAD decisions.. But, I simply cannot and will not BELIEVE that the highest echelons of my government en masse, are CORRUPT..
What worries me, is that if you actually BELIEVE that kind of Alex Jones, FOX News, Rush Limprod CONSPSIRACY bull shit, you WILL take your guns to Washington WHEN the Mueller report is released.. It's gonna be mayhem..
I don't watch Alex Jones or Rush Limprod. I simply go to leftist links. They incriminate themselves.
Look.. I've been wrong about my government before.. They've made some BAD decisions.. But, I simply cannot and will not BELIEVE that the highest echelons of my government en masse, are CORRUPT..
It's not my party going Communist Con. My party looks about like your party did before Soros and the Commies reconstructed your ideology for you.
Russia WANTS you to take your guns to Washington..
Notice. Conservatives rarely have violent marches, start riots, or shoot anyone. Why is that?
As for Russia, the claim has been debunked 100 times over. Probably why I provided you a story from 2007 that is identical to the Fusion GPS dossier used to make the Russia claim...
Russia WANTS you to take your guns to Washington..
The only way we march with guns to Washington is if someone in Washington tries to take our guns. Point of fact, the founders told us to do it. They weren't Russian. Are you anti founders?
Because Communism is totally when the state controls everything and all your rights are taken away, because right wing blogs and fascist dictators are totally more of an authority on Marx than the writings of Marx himself.
My party looks about like your party did before Soros and the Commies reconstructed your ideology for you.
Have you ever wanted to poke someones eyes out with a screwdriver and staple their own dick to their forehead?
Notice. Conservatives rarely have violent marches, start riots, or shoot anyone.
But I thought the Muslim extremists you hate so much were right wing?
Are you anti founders?
He should be, because they owned slaves and murdered your ancestors and built their own country on a foundation of lies so that rich people could rule it.
Oh, neo-Nazis are fake? That's awesome bronto. Your only problem is reality:-
Jason Eric Kessler (born September 22, 1983) is an American white supremacist[1][2][3], neo-Nazi,[4][5][6] and far-right political activist.[7][8][9]
Part of the alt-right, he is known for being the main organizer of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[10][11][12]
Oh, neo-Nazis are fake? That's awesome bronto. Your only problem is reality:-
Jason Eric Kessler (born September 22, 1983) is an American white supremacist[1][2][3], neo-Nazi,[4][5][6] and far-right political activist.[7][8][9]
Part of the alt-right, he is known for being the main organizer of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[10][11][12]
Pretty much proved my point for me eh nom?
Was Jason Kessler a Barack Obama supporter?
True. He told us (and has consistently said elsewhere) that he was an Obama supporter and voted for him.
The FBI ignored a 2002 tip from a scientific colleague of the actual anthrax killer, who turned out to be a Fort Detrick scientist named Bruce Edwards Ivins; the reason is that they had quickly obsessed on an innocent man named Steven Hatfill.
In truth, Hatfill was an implausible suspect from the outset. He was a virologist who never handled anthrax, which is a bacterium. (Ivins, by contrast, shared ownership of anthrax patents, was diagnosed as having paranoid personality disorder, and had a habit of stalking and threatening people with anonymous letters – including the woman who provided the long-ignored tip to the FBI). So what evidence did the FBI have against Hatfill? There was none, so the agency did a Hail Mary, importing two bloodhounds from California whose handlers claimed could sniff the scent of the killer on the anthrax-tainted letters. These dogs were shown to Hatfill, who promptly petted them. When the dogs responded favorably, their handlers told the FBI that they’d “alerted” on Hatfill and that he must be the killer.
You’d think that any good FBI agent would have kicked these quacks in the fanny and found their dogs a good home. Or at least checked news accounts of criminal cases in California where these same dogs had been used against defendants who’d been convicted -- and later exonerated. As Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times investigative reporter David Willman detailed in his authoritative book on the case, a California judge who’d tossed out a murder conviction based on these sketchy canines called the prosecution’s dog handler “as biased as any witness that this court has ever seen.”
Instead, Mueller, who micromanaged the anthrax case and fell in love with the dubious dog evidence, personally assured Ashcroft and presumably George W. Bush that in Steven Hatfill the bureau had its man. Comey, in turn, was asked by a skeptical Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz if Hatfill was another Richard Jewell – the security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing. Comey replied that he was “absolutely certain” they weren’t making a mistake.
Such certitude seems to be Comey’s default position in his professional life. Mueller didn’t exactly distinguish himself with contrition, either. In 2008, after Ivins committed suicide as he was about to be apprehended for his crimes, and the Justice Department had formally exonerated Hatfill – and paid him $5.82 million in a legal settlement – Mueller could not be bothered to walk across the street to attend the press conference announcing the case’s resolution. When reporters did ask him about it, Mueller was graceless. “I do not apologize for any aspect of the investigation,” he said, adding that it would be erroneous “to say there were mistakes.”