CBS News Catherine Herridge has obtained a 94-page spread sheet (pdf here) showing dates of media reports, dates of Steele reports on the same material, and the FBI effort to verify or validate the circular process. In essence this is evidence of the process we initially shared almost three years ago; only now we know the names.
Former SSCI staffer Dan Jones, former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson, and Simpson’s crew at Fusion-GPS, pitched and planted phony Trump-Russia evidence with the media and simultaneously gave those fake points to Chris Steele to supplement the dossier. Using the same method of Ezra Klein’s “JournOList” replication, Dan Jones and Fusion-GPS paid the journalists to run the stories.
…”media reports on FBI reports of media reports”…
Steele then used the same information from Jones and Fusion in his Dossier and cited the planted media reports; as evidence to substantiate. The Dossier is then provided to the FBI. The journalists then provide *indulgences* to the FBI as part of the collaboration.
The FBI, specifically Lisa Page, Peter Strzok and public information office Mike Kortan, then leak the outcomes of the FBI Dossier investigative processes to the same media that have reported on the originating material. It is all a big circle of planting and laundering the same originating false material; aka a “wrap up smear.”
Here’s the 94-page spread sheet:
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Michael Isikoff highlighted the level of how enmeshed media is with the Fusion team in February 2018 when he admitted his reporting was being used by the DOJ and FBI to advance the political objectives of the intelligence community.
Additionally, FBI investigator Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page were shown in their text messages to be leaking stories from the Clinton Investigation, the Trump investigation and the Mueller investigation to journalists at Politico, The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. –SEE HERE–
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was busted by the Inspector General leaking stories to the media and then lying about it to INSD and IG investigators. FBI Director James Comey admitted to leaking stories to the New York Times, and even hired his friend Andrew Richman (off-the-books), gave him access to FBI and NSA databases, and then leaked information to Richman along with another friend Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare blog.
Lest we forget, the IG report on how the FBI handled the Clinton investigation revealed that dozens of FBI officials were actually taking bribes from the media for information:
IG REPORT – We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters. Attached to this report as Attachments E and F are two link charts that reflect the volume of communications that we identified between FBI employees and media representatives in April/May and October 2016. We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review.
[…] We do not believe the problem is with the FBI’s policy, which we found to be clear and unambiguous. Rather, we concluded that these leaks highlight the need to change what appears to be a cultural attitude among many in the organization. (link to pdf – page Xii of executive summary)
Madness.
This is an IG fact-based criticism of the institution of the FBI, not simply a few rogue officials within it.
But wait…. Perspective:
Later it was revealed that Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller’s #1 special counsel prosecutor, was coordinating investigative efforts with the full support of four AP reporters who were giving Weissman tips. That’s information from journalists to use in his court filings and submitted search warrants. Make sure you grasp this: The AP journalists were feeding information to their ideological allies within the special counsel.
Nuts; simply, well, nuts.
And then there’s Devlin Barrett, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok:
Additionally, Christopher Steele has stated in U.K. court records the person in charge of the Clinton Campaign’s opposition research firm, Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS, arranged and coordinated for Mr. Steele to talk to several journalists (CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Yahoo News and Mother Jones) while Mr. Steele was also the primary source of information for the FBI investigators (including Strzok and Page):
Make sure you read that full response from Christopher Steele above to see the scope of the media engagements he was conducting.
As more evidence surfaces the relationship between journalists, Fusion-GPS, Chris Steele and the media’s DOJ/FBI sources begins blending together. The FBI was using media reports, which were based on Fusion-GPS pitches, to bolster its investigative documents to the FISA court. It is an intelligence laundry operation:
According to the U.K records, Christopher Steele reports this September 2016 meeting with Isikoff was arranged by Glenn Simpson. According to Michael Isikoff on his February podcast, he met Christopher Steele at a Washington, D.C. hotel in Sept. 2016. They were joined by his “old friend” Glenn Simpson, the founder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS, who Isikoff now defines as a “private investigator.”
So Christopher Steele was meeting with journalists, the journalists were writing articles; the FBI was leaking to media and simultaneously citing those same articles as underlying evidence to support their counterintelligence investigations; and all of this was used to validate the investigative documents the FBI was receiving from Christopher Steele; who, along with the leaking FBI officials, was also the source of the media articles.
FUBAR! This is exponentially bonkers.
This is a circle of information, all coming from Dan Jones and Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, who was the opposition research firm being financed by Hillary Clinton, along with FBI officials who were using their own strategic leaks to validate their own investigation.
Think about the scale of the reporting, and reporting on reporting, of anonymous leaks, false leaks, lies from “people with knowledge of the matter”, “government officials involved in the matter”, “people familiar with the matter”, “government sources” etc. all going in one unified and semi-coordinated direction – against the aggregate Trump administration.
Now, it actually gets even more convoluted.
Christopher Steele has sworn under oath that he met with multiple journalists (at least eight organizations) in September, mid-October, and late-October 2016: “at Fusion’s instruction“. (pdf page #7)
Overlay upon that sworn admission with what Glenn Simpson (Fusion-GPS) told the House Intelligence Committee while also under oath about his involvement in sharing information derived from Christopher Steele:
(Testimony – pdf link, page #147)
…”without my knowledge and against my wishes”?
Huh?
FBI Director James Comey admits to leaking his ‘memos’ to the New York Times. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was busted for leaking and lying about it. FBI #2 Counterintelligence Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page are caught in their text messages leaking to Politico, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
…. AND the FBI is caught, in at least one FISA application, using Yahoo media reports provided by them AND their investigative source Christopher Steele to establish a basis for FISA “Title I” surveillance; the most intrusive and wide-open search and surveillance authority possible.
The Clinton Campaign is paying Fusion-GPS to conduct opposition research against Donald Trump. In addition to the collaboration between Dan Jones, Glenn Simpson pushed that opposition research into the media, and Fusion GPS is also providing that opposition research –including information from contacts with media– directly to the FBI:
… In addition to using the Fusion-GPS opposition research to underpin their counterintelligence investigation, the FBI then turn around and leak the same opposition research information to the media to create secondary support for their counterintelligence investigation.
Tell me again how the media can possibly write about this now?
The problem is not just corruption with the U.S. Justice System, the DOJ and the FBI; the problem is corruption within the media.
We’re talking about thousands of hours of media TV pundits, thousands more columns written, and almost every scintilla of it based on originating intelligence sources -from the larger intelligence system- that are now being exposed as duplicitous and conspiratorial in the scale of their malicious intent.
This larger story-line has traveled in one direction. The narrative has only traveled in one direction. Each thread converging on codependent trails for collective stories all going in one direction. One big engineered narrative endlessly pushed. Think about how far the collective media have traveled with this story over the past eighteen months?
Hell, twenty-something-year-old “journalists” were so committed to the resistance narrative they were even sleeping with their sources to get any little engineering angle possible.
Now, over a period of several years, it has become increasingly obvious the collective journey, using all that expended effort, was intentionally going in the wrong direction.
The media have fully invested themselves in four months of narrative distribution in only one direction. Not a single MSM entity has questioned their travel as a result of false leaks or false sources in the totality of time they have covered the DOJ and FBI story. They have even won Pulitzer prizes for writing stories about the lies and manufactured evidence.
Nothing within their collective need to will-an-outcome will change the media’s proximity to facts as the truthful story behind the DOJ and FBI corruption is finally exposed. The media are so far away from the place where this story ends, they have no inherent capability to even begin to travel in the opposite direction, toward the truth.
The only way they could align with the truth is to admit that virtually every scintilla of their reportage over the past four years was inherently false or manipulated by the “sources” distributing the material for their willfully blind reporting.
There’s not a single media outlet capable of doing that.
Think about a New York Times, CNN, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, Yahoo News or Washington Post journalist having to write an article deconstructing a foundation of four-years worth of lies they participated in creating.
Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?
EVER?
Impossible.
Aren’t federal employees & media employees required to take routine drug tests?
No way these actors are not addicted to antidepressants or other reuptake inhibitors.
No one with a clear mind behaves like this.
Degenerate a**holes!!
All this evidence is inadmissible. Barr and Durham could only take information from pristine silos that have been protected by Trojan condoms. Rules are rules
Maybe they are just addicted to the most powerful antidepressant of all … US Dollars provided by the CCP.
Marxists do. The end justifies the means,
Communists are most dangerous when their backs are against the wall.
I would be willing to bet 99% of the people involved in this are not operating with some ideolological fervor for Marxism. But rather from a extreme level of greed for Money.
I think you are correct in identifying greed as a strong motivator for some.
But IMHO you are incorrect in dismissing Marxism as another strong motivator for some in the federal government.
Please read “The Red Thread” by Diana West to discover the eye-opening extent of pro-communist leftists who have been embedded into our Deep State / Administrative State bureaucracy for decades.
Then do some research (not Wikipedia) on the Democratic Socialists of America.
Project Veritas found lots of them working inside the Swamp….
JRD,
Not if they are blindfolded, have their hands tied behind their backs and are smoking their last cigarette.
This is their destiny now, in a political sense, and hopefully with long incarcerations for MANY criminals.
Doubtful; even the devil has standards.
Like @ JRD.
WP refuses to recognize me anymore. This is the only avenue available to like what you are all contributing.
Communists do.
They all have TDS syndrome
TV, Radio, and Print and online “News” folks are some of the most addicted in our country….Rampant use of drugs has been a staple for over 30 years… Truck drivers and print shop workers are tested but no one else… Only those who can get hurt from machinery or driving delivery vehicles are tested…
If they get busted they are put on medical programs to address their issues…or they move to another media market with a recommendation.
All teachers are drug tested employment is pending tesults
Yours is a very charitable assessment of the crooks; blame it on drugs! God forbid we recognize them as just plain crooks bound and determined to make our world into a hell hole.
Hang em high.
KTA and let GOD sort them out,
I would wager $1000 that all them get sent to the hot torturous side of eternity.
Rip the lid off this wretched hive of scum!!!!
Start with the DOZENS of FBI agents that were bribed by the media and begin working up the ladder. Some of them should be eager to start flipping before losing their jobs, pensions and possibly going to jail. Conspiracy should be easier to prove than a RICO charge – I think.
H&HC,
If the FBI agents were bribed by media, then, if I am not mistaken, as per the law, both the agent as well as the media have broken laws related to bribery.
Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect.
It’s become obvious to me laws are only to keep us little people in check.
I believe you are 100% correct.
I’ll ask AG Barr & Director Wray what they WILL do about it the next time I meet them for coffee…… s/
Do you think the President doesn;”t fry Wray because technically Wray works for Barr?
PDJT can fire or order the firing of anybody regardless of their place in the food chain.
Ah, thanks, I didn’t know that. We all have seen Wray needs to go, but the President doesn’t act. Soooo frustrating!
Add the insubordinate General Milley to the list – in fact, put him on top of it.
Catherine Herridge, thank you for performing journalism. You are tapping into a dying craft.
indeed.. it’s exquisite and remarkable.
Can any Treepers confirm that Herridge has discussed any of this, in depth, on the CBS main evening news? I only ever see her tweets.
So it appears Catherine Herridge is on “our” side? From a quick read, it looks like her timeline SUBSTANTIATES everything Sundance has posted over the years.
Will her timeline and SD’s work have any value to Attorney Durham’s work?
She’s a good old-school journalist. Doesn’t mean she takes sides. She did leave FauxNooz, after all. Let’s see where SeeBS lets her go.
They just might “let her go” like in terminate.
Yes. I have been concerned about what direction she was taking when she quit Fox and joined See BS. So far, her reporting has been less frequent that it was at Fox, but she seems to remain committed to exposing facts about the anti Trump coup.
Fingers crossed for her. Just wish she’d go to an organization that wasn’t so historically dishonest and continually putting out fake news.
I’ve noticed that, too. Her reporting at SeeBS has been much less than it was after she was newly hired. Her coverage has waned.
I think the correct adjective might be “throttled…”
its hard to gauge … and impossible if we are using the slam bang pow 24/7 just in time msm metric.. which amounts to 23 hours abd 55 minutes of pure manure and only five minutes of accidental facts that can be corroborated.
catherine is indeef old school…and that takes time and energy.
exhibit spreadsheet… that’s quite a bit of effort and time to investigate and then edit into factual cohesive product..
and one I might add…is very impactful and timely.
there is much to “be said” about not saying much until you have something TO say.
that’s one very important ways to distinguish credentials.
Catherine I am certain devoted a substantial amount of time and careful planning about what to discuss and when.
she has a particular stride few have.
my personal dream?
Catherine herridge interview Sidney POWELL
AND write a book about our texas patriot.
i would personally buy a couple hundred copies..
Wow – Catherine interviewing Sidney! That would be epic.
The pressure is immense… The corruption is deep… She’s only human… She will either submit or quit in time, I suspect… Hopefully she’ll do some more good before either occurs…. She is an excellent reporter.
Yep
Maybe if enough of us sent her letters of support it would give her strength.
yes..
I believe one major way we can all start changing our media is to support ONLY INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS.
make it a point to comment about their work…sing praises etc.
its not going to bring everyone around…nope
but it will give these legitimate reporters and fact finders a much needed boost of positive feedback
it matters.
Of course, nobody puts a timeline together like Sundance. Why should Durham reinvent the wheel when he has the blueprint ? Don’t assume that Durham is better than Sundance or any of the numerous internet researchers/analysts working on this stuff for the last 4 years.
no assumption was inferred
H&HC~~
She’s being used, as Sundance stated recently, by legacy media to trickle this stuff out there. At some point the “we already reported on that” meme will rear its head.
However, it is good news for us.
At least we now can share this with liberal friends and acquaintances and have more credibility (in their eyes. We already know it’s credible).
This is true. They can’t mothball it, if we share their article far and wide. And piggy-back it to the *real* news articles we Patriots have been sharing for years, to fully demonstrate how ‘late to the game’ the msm has been.
Whether by intent or by sheer incompetence, the msm must be called out for spreading lies and propaganda regarding our President, while completely ignoring his history-making accomplishments. #FAKEnews
Catherine has always been the consummate truth-seeker. She possesses incomparable skills, combined with a thirst for the truth. FAUX screwed the pooch in their failure to keep Catherine from moving to a competitor.
The exquisite irony here is she now works for CBS and has now handed her new masters a very hot potato. What to do? What to do?
Very interesting situation at CBS. CBS was/is the home of Obama Propaganda Minister Ben Rhodes brother. CBS knows they have been complicit with the Coup. They hired Herridge as a hedge if things are revealed and go south for the bad guys. CBS can say look how ourCatherine is reporting the facts ! Fair and balanced is us.
The question now though is how do they, and the others doing the propaganda for the dimocrats and terrorists now play this?
CBS also tried to promote the fake memos about President GW Bushes alleged absences from his Texas Air Guard duties.
60 Minutes Australia ran this Tara Reed interview about the Biden sexual assault on Oct. 4th:
I would love to see Gitmo come into play for these treasonous bastages
How ’bout those French cutting machine things and Bubba Smollett loops ?
Follow the money from the DNC/Clinton campaign to FusionGPS and then to Steele. As I’ve stated several times, there are millions unaccounted for. @Sundance also now thinks some of this money went to the press. Was it laundered via the press to bribe the FBI also? Were there either direct cash payments (offshore accounts, kids accounts etc.) or large gifts? Remember that tickets to football/basketball/baseball/hockey games can be quite expensive, and dinners at fancy restaurants and invites to charity balls also can be quite expensive.
Normally, sales people at businesses do these things – but large corporations have rules (based on laws that our Congress has passed to prevent bribery) that make it a termination offense if someone accepts a gift above a certain amount (typically $25!) Why aren’t government employees at least fired (if not prosecuted) if they get gifts above $25?
Because govt employees are watched over by other govt employees.
evergreen: Ahhh, the proverbial flaw, I wonder why no one ever noticed this? Does anyone believe this period that IG Horowitz looked at was the first time fbi agents have received gifts from the press?
Our betters. Virtue signaling to us, the Deplorables.
IMHO this ? happens when you lower standards for law and intelligence agencies!??♀️
Law enforcement (correction)
This is not a crime against President Trump. It is treason against the American people. 1000’s need to be prosecuted and arrested for their crimes. Blackmailing, bribes and money laundering and more. AG Barr does nothing? I can not believe the American people are not swarming DC with ropes in hand.
I couldn’t agree with you more skid. It’s of epic proportions.
And military
“Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?”
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Also, the most important piece of God Armor IS THE BELT OF TRUTH because it KEEPS EVERYTHING ELSE JN PLACE, the media can’t keep their pants up because they neglect the truth
Who is the first criminal you would want to see hang and why?
A) Comey
B) McCabe
C) Strockz
I want #NutSucLisa to pick between Strzok and McCabe allegedly her 2 lovers.
#NutSucLisa… 😀
1. Obowel
2.Swine Hilda
3.Dementia Joe
just because….
Hang them all at once. Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clapper, Obama, Biden, Rice, Ohr, Ohr, Simpson, Mueller, Weissman, Lynch, Jarrett and last but not least Hillary Clinton. Mass hangings on the Mall.
Hang them all at once. Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clapper, Obama, Biden, Rice, Ohr, Ohr, Simpson, Mueller, Weissman, Lynch, Jarrett and last but not least Hillary Clinton. Mass hangings on the Mall.
Hang them all at once. Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clapper, Obama, Biden, Rice, Ohr, Ohr, Simpson, Mueller, Weissman, Lynch, Jarrett and last but not least Hillary Clinton. Mass hangings on the Mall.
Hang them all at once. Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clapper, Obama, Biden, Rice, Ohr, Ohr, Simpson, Mueller, Weissman, Lynch, Jarrett and last but not least Hillary Clinton. Mass hangings on the Mall.
Someone else once said that.
I guess he wanted to really get his message across. I have often felt like that. Also this website does some pretty hokey things sometimes.
“this website does some pretty hokey things sometimes”
Sometimes on a phone, I find that if I go to post and the Wi-Fi “hangs” for awhile, you don’t think it is loading so you hit “Post comment” multiple times.
On a desktop, it usually results in a “Duplicate Comment” pop-up. On the mobile platform and Wi-Fi, not always.
Mark Warner should be on the list, as well as Paul Ryan.
Yes
Of those three, Comey first.
He was Director and Buried the evidence of Hillary’s crimes before the 2016 election.
But in the real world, we should not have to pick. All three can and should swing from individual ropes. Simultaneously.
I choose Comey because he is so arrogant, smug, and positive he is untouchable. And he insulted the President the MOST!
There is a saying in AA, “If you refuse to listen up, God will just start banging on your hood.” Seems like an appropriate analogy for the press and non-treeper normies
There is a saying in AA, “If you refuse to listen up, God will just start banging on your hood.” Seems like an appropriate analogy for the press and non-treeper normies
Only close question for the Justice Department to decide: Gitmo or Supermax?
Why can’t we start a penal colony?
We should have an island (or a radioactively cool enough atoll) somewhere.
To be fair, D_I, we should give them a choice…
Phobos or Deimos?
I had to look them up!! Yes! Either!!
Deplorable: Oh but we do have such an island. Little Diomede Island is an island of Alaska, United States. It is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between the Alaska mainland and Siberia. Little Diomede’s neighboring island, Big Diomede, is an island of Russia.
It is windswept, barren and quite cool. Sound like what you have in mind? 🙂
Gitmo…they’ be close to home.
It’s cultural. Who aspires to mainstream media as a career? It’s a progressive culture, communism with soft edges. Truth has no relevance; it’s all about narrative and effecting specific outcomes, usually in concert with a political arm. Think of it as DNC and you won’t go wrong.
Does this fall within RICO, including the media?
Conspiracy……easier to get a conviction.
When you understand that the bright young “journalists” running propaganda as news truly believe that anyone who disagrees with them is immoral, you’ll get it.
“the bright young “journalists” running propaganda as news”
I have first hand experience and proof of this, from a Fulbright scholar from Germany that was at the Columbia School of Journalism.
I met her during the Primary in Manchester, NH in February 2016.
She was on a school field trip and I was there with the NYer’s for Trump volunteers.
I was interviewed by a classmate of hers from the UK at the time. She didn’t have time to do one with me at the time.
So I obtained a business card, did an interview with her later. We stayed in touch during the campaign.
From reading the school blog, I guess that her classes highlight of the NH trip was meeting HRC. I saw the pictures.
Let’s just say on that blog, she had no intention of correcting factual mistakes (DJT hates Mexicans, instead of “they are not sending their best and brightest”) because “that is what everybody believes”.
This is how Blumenthal operates. Blumenthal puts “info” out there and then tells someone else about the reported info, just to have the ,”info” spread. Larry Johnson has spoken extensively about how he was duped.
This is all Clinton B S.
The only thing missing in Sundance’s thread is the Sgt. Shultz meme………..
I see nothing, nothing……….
Perhaps the President’s comment (paraphrasing) “We got’em all. Lat’s see what happens. Very soon.” during tonight’s rally was influenced by his knowledge of this reveal.
I have always admired Catherine Herridge. I expect CBS to punish her for releasing such damning information.
Moreover, Barr will have to put down the ‘pipes and begin his Riverdance to continue shielding the FBI. Or, just go dark until he can resign after the New Year.
Wray? I expect he will continue to resist President Trump, no matter what is disclosed, until he is fired following a reelection or given a pass by Biden.
All JMO.
Wray will issue a stern memo……………also…………..
How about Mueller pretending to not know about Fusion GPS?
bowhunttpa: Wasn’t that one of the things not in his purview? After all, he was exclusively investigating Trump and his associate’s collusion with the Russians, not Glenn Simpson/Fusion GPS’s collusion with the Russians to frame Trump.
Perhaps someone, Durham maybe, is looking into this. I hope so.
Ok, so now with all this new “team work” evidence, surely Barr and the Boys will indict someone, right?
If we had a functioning electorate, prosecution would be perfunctory.
When this sh*tshow is done I think Barr should be charged with Obstruction of Justice. His not interested in punishing the traitors and seditionist. He preventing justice from being handed out.
Who will charge Barr? Who has “standing”, besides Barr?
MelH, one thing to remember, No One Is Untouchable, even the walrus Barr is not untouchable.
Barr is touchable by who? All the crooked Democrats have been untouchable. Or is your point that no one has the balls to touch the crooks?
I haven’t seen anyone with balls yet, but sometime in the near future someone somewhere will show their balls. Us, them, the creeps, I haven’t an idea who but history shows someone will show their balls.
The fourth estate has become the fifth column.
Hat tip;
Dr Savage.
Your line regarding twenty something year olds regurgitating the same material is so VERY true. I remember I walked into a news room some years ago to see someone about an obituary. The reporters I saw sitting around all looked like young inexperienced apprentice cub reporters. From their demeanor and dress I felt like I was back in my Italian literature class in college that was run by a raving liberal female. As a law enforcement officer I had previous contacts with beat reporters that actually did some investigation. I honestly don’t believe most of today’s ‘reporters’ have NO investigative ability. TV News rooms are very much in the same condition. I NEVER watch the main stream news on TV. I told my wife those idiots will even lie about the weather. There doesn’t seem too be any real controls or fact checking going on anywhere. (except here)
How did we as a society get here?
One exception at a time.
evergreen: I admire your concise comments.
Money. The corruption of our Money – thats how we got here:
If you are an ambitious person living on the coasts – normal govt salaries … well… dont cut it. You get paid $150,000/yr? Sounds great right? After taxes, the high rents, private schools etc – you are perpetually obsessed with money fears . You feel as poor as a poor villager in the third world. In the US you need a lot of “protection money” as I think of it . You cant live in many neighborhoods – not becasue they are not fine – but because they may be crime ridden. You have to pay up to live in a neighborhood where you wont get mugged. How about schools – if the local schools were at least adequate – that would be fine, but they are not. So you need to come up with $30,000/kid for private schools where they can play with crayons – but at least they’ll be safe from violence. You have to pay a lot in property taxes – for schools that your kids cant attend for fear of violence.
Its a very hard life at $150K on the coasts. Stressful. Forget about carefree luxuries.
Same extends to young ambitious types . Extreme stress through school to get into a good college . Costs to attend … through the roof ( $300K for a 4 yr degree). Student loans. Endless money stress.
When people are stressed about money – they can be corrupted.
China has about $4 Trillion in reserves. If they make a 2% return on that .. Thats $80 Billion a year . Lets say they put aside $10 Billion /yr to buy influence in the US govt, US media, US universities, Hollywood – they would still have most of it left over to buy a few high tech companies.
And DJT has been openly messing up their game. trade tariffs. Intellectual proiperty right protection … for real ( not pretend). Spying. All that stuff. major problem. Existential threat.
So – how did we get here? Two things:
– The Federal reserve has reduced the purchasing power of the Dollar by 98% since they went into business. $1 in 2020 is worth 2 cents in 1913 terms. Most of the money they print gets to Wall Street . If you are a senator with a college age kid – you want that kid on wall street – because thats one of the few places ( other than silicon valley) where you can get paid enough to live a happy life : starting salaries for a 25 yr old college graduate $150K, reasonably successful 5 years in : $500K – $1 mil /yr. Now on that kind of money you can live a financially carefree life on the coasts.
– Terrible Govts: Local and federal ; we have had 24 years ( Clinton-bush-obama) where the govt cared as much about the American population as they might care about peasants in Indonesia. peasants are peasants.
All the money was spent on wars, and the military-intelligence complex in the US.
The wealthiest zip codes in the US are Washington DC suburbs and silicon Valley … not an accident.
If you understand this , you understand the contempt that the Dems show – hard to hide- treat citizens like peasants, low-iq, smelly peasants. Deplorable.
They have lied about the weather. Remember that guy reporting for the weather channel who was holding on to a sign post for dear life during a storm while pedestrians were calmly walking behind him?
Francesca: Or standing on your knees in hurricane flooding. 🙂
The Democrat Party is a criminal organization and so is the media. With every organization there is someone and a small group of someones that are running it. Mob bosses.
It is time to call the Lone Ranger… Send up the Bat signal… Whatever.
Me I am praying to God because, ‘In God I Trust.’
There should be one hell of a trial.
Time for indictments already.?
The only downside to all of this incredible new evidence of a MASSIVE Conspiracy and Coup on a sitting President, it means the DS will simply print up and forge another 2,000,000 more fraudulent mail-in voting ballots.
Barr may want to run over to Walter Reed and get him some of that TAB – Trump Anti-Body Treatment.
He’s going to need it fight this mail-in fraud onslaught.
Wow. This is conspiracy pure and simple. This will not be reported by the press as it exposes their slavish sycophants dependency to get scraps from their master table. They have become court jester and scribblers to big government.
Money was exchanged. If not reported by the reporter it would be undeclared income and prosecutable ala Al Capone. Let’s see if the Trump administration has the stones to do so. If he cleared or told their editors the source of information (and I can’t believe they did not) then the organization is open to RICO charges.
Trump would sue because he would win but will big government do so. It would take a kick ass director and HR director to do so.
Finally I consider it ironic that Fox News let Herridge get away. This tells me that Brett Baier is reshaping Fox News to fit Lachlan Murdock to CNN lite. I bet Shep Smith wish he stayed around.
Gitmo, public hangings, firing squads – don’t care. Get it done. Let us know if we can assist.
There’s has to be ways to make this into a massive revenue event for the US Treasury.
Pay-Per-View.
Yeah, our media are co-conspirators. Don’t count them as “free as a bird, and guilty as sin” just yet. They may be facing extinction.
How much more worthless can Barr prove himself to be? We thought Jeff Sessions was bad, but Barr is worse. He talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk. Instead he’s playing with his bag and pipes.
At least Jeff PUBLICLY recused himself.
When I heard Barr and Mueller were best buds, I knew the fix was in. Barr could have been a patriot wanting to preserve the future of our nation. Instead, he chose to sell out the American people to stand in solidarity with the seditionist b@$tards.
I know, I know, trust the plan. Only problem, there never was a plan.
Who the heck recommended Barr, as AG, to the President? Whoever this was, is the true enemy to our nation.
Barr is a Bush guy. The Bushes hate DJT. Why did he get picked? My honest opinion is that DJT knew who to hire to build a hotel, but when it came to Washington he relies too much on “impeccable reputation” – which Iam sure Barr had. But DJT is still learning to trust his own instincts on what these jobs entail. Its not easy.
Its like you are suddenly made head of a hospital. And there is an opening for a cardiac surgeon. How the hell are you supposed to gauge who is a good pick? You rely on advisors and people who seem above board. Because you yourself have no idea what a cardiac surgeon does.
My husband who did not go to school here in Canada, always finds it mind boggling, when the government shuffles their cabinet around. Transportation minister becomes Education minister, Education goes to Health, Health goes to enviornment and so on. Hubby just can’t wrap his head around that.I try telling him and he knows by now regardless of their positions, they are clueless and some one else in behind their govna they spew. God Bless PDJT.
I believe President Trump was told by Mitch McConnell who they would and wouldn’t approve. Just like he was given a list of Judges they would approve. Many of the RINOs are part of or complicit in the resistance.
…that sound you hear, are the bulkheads collapsing as the truth slips below 1000 feet…
Apparently they had fun on their merry-go-round. It’s far beyond time to foreclose on the carnival.
I remember the first time one of the media executives stated they decided what HISTORY would record about our times. I know that 500 years from now lay bare the propaganda wars between the 3 major parties . the nationalist democrats, the nationalist Republicans and the Globalists comprised of both Republicans and Democrats and the news media involvement.
This process may also explain the law California Senator Feinstein was pushing to create a law that only federally, government approved, licensed, journalists would be allowed to have their stories aired or printed. It was in the last two years of the Obama administration that she began pushing her ‘only trusted, approved journalists should be allowed to work’ mantra.
Their strategists must have seen the threat free-thinking keyboard journalists could pose to their silent fundamental transformation of America plans.
It’s amazing government employees being paid by us can sell strategic minerals to the enemy of freedom and receive $145 million for their foundation.
It’s amazing we have so many who swear an Oath to this country and the constitution yet instantly break it before their hand has dropped and the agencies Moro need to be rethought because they are a joke. They take minuscule garbage as payment form the MSM for bribery and breaking federal laws and none of them are held accountable or prosecuted for these crimes unless you are in the Trump orbit.
Wakey, wakey America. Vote the corrupt out. Support PDJT.
“Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?
EVER?
Impossible.”
It is always darkest just before … … … it goes PITCH BLACK.
What’s the WaPo’s motto again ?
I think that it is “Democracy dies in darkness & we snuff every light encountered with a vengeance!” or something like that.
It’s ALL coming out and they can’t stop it!
Sucks being them right now as they have to count on Biden/Harris to save their arses.
Good luck with that scumbags!
Whatever happened to the old journalistic ‘ethos’ that if my source lies to me I will then ‘burn’ them by revealing them in public etc?
It’s as if journalism school is a complete crock.
The problem may have sorta begun with all the presidents men. Wood stein were hailed for decades- meanwhile they commit numerous ethical and logical blunders and their entire story seems more and more preposterous as years go by.
Deep Throat was ANOTHER FIB leaker !
I have always been intrigued by political mysteries. I was old enough to be aware of Watergate and President Nixon’s resignation. In college, I ran across one of the many books written about it and soon began reading them all.
I had my own pick of who “Deep Throat” was based on the many clues I had gained. I never once suspected the number two guy at the fbi. In my mind, they were above suspicion. They didn’t play the game that way. Apparently, the fbi has never been above board, when they decide justice must be served by whatever means. Leaking is the game they play, and who knows if it was the truth then or as proved now, their version of the truth to achieve their means.
And how many of the American people have a clue as to any much less all of this? 90% are clueless, maybe more. And they’re voting with the Liar Fake News Media ringing in their heads.
And they get to hear every night from gop Bushies like Ari Fleisher that it “looks like a Biden landslide.”
The enemy of the people. No question.
Ask yourself what would have happened if President Trump or Conservatives had done what they have done? There is still a lot of stuff we don’t know. Hell! It is much MUCH worse than we even imagined.
The only upside I can find through all of this is with professional sports disappearing, the loss of print media will be hastened. WaPo’s only socially redeeming value used to be the coverage of the Redskins. With the ‘Skins gone, the NFL dying, and no print media credibility left, maybe WaPo will be next. Now there’s an upside.
lansdalechip: Jeff Bezos has plenty of money to subsidize his paper.
It is October
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=%2bgomer+pile+saying+%22surprise%22&&view=detail&mid=BAAEF04B5A39E9AB115BBAAEF04B5A39E9AB115B&rvsmid=CFEA63B601FA91D99D15CFEA63B601FA91D99D15&FORM=VDQVAP
According to John Solomon, the Russian Orgy story was ‘confirmed’ through reporting by Andrea CHALUPA. Alexandra’s sister. What are the damn odds?
I think the FBI will soon have all these issues under control. Remember, FBI Director Chris Wray is sending all his team to bias training classes. That should handle the problems. /s/
And if that doesn’t work he’ll borrow one of Lindsey’s STERN letters and distribute it to the rank and file.
Stern letters? Wait… How come that is not breaking news all over the world?
One point is incorrect. Hillary wasn’t paying Fusion GPS. She was paying Bob Bauer at the law firm of Perkins Coie. They then in turn hired Fusion GpS. The same time Ibama for America and the DNC were paying them millions as well. Why wasn’t that firm ever raided. Bauer was I the Obama cabinet and his personnel attorney. He also was Bidens coach for the first debate.
They keep going because they know no one will lay a hand on them with Ibama as their protector.
Joanne: Yes, Perkins Coie was the cutout for Hillary’s dirty work.
You got to hand it to the crack FIB – they sure did learn the lesson on how to do a wrap up smear from Nancy! And people were saying they weren’t so bright!
/s
Mistakes were made…
…by somebody — about something…
And there will be a full-blown ‘root-cause analysis’ performed and comprehensive ‘corrective-actions’ taken in accordance with ‘best-practices’ to ensure the ‘truncation of offenses’…. and we will all move on… until the next time… when the traitors will have all their ‘lessons-learned’ and be smarter about not getting caught… God help us.
Proving that we were right to be concerned that the Manchurian might not leave office:
“An NIE is supposed to represent the consensus of the Intelligence Community (IC). It is created in a lengthy collaborative process involving working-level analysts and experts. Only when the final version is effectively agreed upon and hammered out, does the document make is way to agency heads for final approval.
Such was not the case with this NIE. According to the senior official interviewed, this NIE was written by CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, and DNI Clapper. All work on the NIE was done at the Top Secret level with only a handful of individuals having access to what was written. Objections to the conclusions reached were dismissed summarily on the basis that Mr. Brennan, Mr. Comey, and Mr. Clapper had personally written the NIE findings and recommendations and would handle all inter-agency input themselves.
In short, the conclusions had been preordained. There was no room for discussion.
Circa November 10, 2016, the senior official speaking to AND Magazine received a phone call in his office at the Pentagon on a secure phone. The call was from the Department of Defense Under-Secretary’s office that coordinated attendance and participation in inter-agency meetings at the White House. The call concerned planning for a short fuse, inter-agency meeting at the White House. It was explained that a new committee was being formed to finalize and establish the timeline and storyline connecting Russia with the election of President Trump. The senior official speaking to AND Magazine had been named to be part of this new committee.
During this phone call, it was explained to AND’s source that one of the committee’s taskings was to develop a plan to delay and/or reschedule the inauguration.
At some point, this idea appears to have been dropped in favor of proceeding with the strategy of creating an impeachment narrative, but for months apparently there was significant discussion of the possibility of simply not handing over the Presidency to Donald Trump.
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When we have reached the point where an outgoing President and his subordinates are seriously planning not to hand over power to the President-Elect, we are standing on the precipice. This is no longer about partisan politics. This is about the very real possibility of losing our democracy.”
https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/10/11/exclusive-coup-plotters-considered-never-allowing-trump-to-be-inaugurated/