There is an issue being overlooked, well, not so much ‘overlooked’ per se’, but rather intentionally being ignored by everyone in the discussion.
Maybe not an 800lb gorilla in the room, but at least to a troop of screaming spider monkeys swinging from the drapes and chandeliers.
As everyone is well aware, back in 2016 the entire U.S. media apparatus was given copies of the Clinton-funded Christoper Steele dossier, as Fusion GPS worked every source in their contact list to push the fabricated claims into the headlines. Eventually the stenographers in/around DC, led by CNN and Buzzfeed, acquiesced.
As a result of the Durham indictment, we now know a fellow named Igor Danchenko was working closely with Democrat Party public relations executive Charles Dolan to funnel the fabricated source material to Chris Steele.
Chris Steele, under contract with Fusion-GPS to assemble opposition research that would be used by allies in the media and FBI, then took the Danchenko/Dolan fabricated claims and put it into his dossier.
DOJ official Bruce Ohr, the husband of another Fusion-GPS employee Nellie Ohr, was used as the laundry conduit to put the dossier into the hands of the FBI. Simultaneously Glenn Simpson took the dossier and shopped it to his media pals. That’s how the entire story was created; and yes, we already knew most of this and Durham is simply filling in the details. However, there is something missing from all reporting.
We know the dossier was used as the resource material for the October 21, 2016, FISA application -a Title 1 search warrant- to conduct political surveillance against the Trump campaign by accusing Carter Page of being an agent of the Russian government. The Steele dossier was essentially a substitute for the ‘woods file’ that justifies an intrusive search warrant against a U.S. citizen. The dossier was the evidence used by the FBI and DOJ to justify the warrant application.
What’s missing from this context is not just the fabricated dossier in the hands of the media; but rather, in March 2017 the actual FISA application was in the hands of the media. Not only did most mainstream U.S. media like Buzzfeed, Politico, The New York Times and the Washington Post have the dossier in their hands, effective March 17, 2017, they also had the full and unredacted FISA application as it was leaked by the Senate Intelligence Committee Security Director James Wolfe.
James Wolfe leaked the Carter Page FISA application on March 17th to journalist Ali Watkins. The details of the process Wolfe used to leak the FISA application were outlined in Wolfe’s grand jury indictment and the subsequent filings in the DC criminal court case. {Go Deep}
Despite the fact that Wolfe entered a plea agreement with the DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu and was never charged with leaking the FISA application – you can debate the motive of that DC coverup in a much bigger context – there is zero doubt from the sworn affidavits of the FBI investigator of the case, Brian Dugan, that Wolfe leaked the FISA to the media.
♦ Why is that important? Well, for the past five years, not only has the U.S. media had in their possession the Steele Dossier that was given to the FBI, but the U.S. media has also possessed (never admitted) the full and unredacted FISA application showing how the dossier was used in the FISA application.
The media, through journalist Ali Watkins, specifically Buzzfeed, Politico, New York Times and likely The Washington Post, have held the unredacted Carter Page FISA application and the Steele Dossier since early 2017. They have never reported on their possession of it; likely because the unredacted and highly classified FISA application was unlawfully gained.
The media have never admitted it; but those same media outlets clearly have held the ability to see exactly how the dossier was used in the FISA application, because they have both the source material (dossier) and the outcome (FISA application).
As the Wall Street Journal takes these new Durham revelations and starts looking quizzically at Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller, in the softest way possible – attempting to avoid triggering all those DC sensibilities that might turn WSJ into a target – the fact that the media held both dossier and FISA application makes the screaming spider monkeys a little more difficult to ignore. Yet ignore they must:
Wall Street Journal – … [H]is Durham indictment reads like a story with more to come, but some lessons are already clear. One question is why the country is only now learning these facts. The Durham indictments treat the FBI as the duped party, but the record shows former FBI director James Comey and his investigators knew from the summer of 2016 that Clinton campaign fingerprints were all over the dossier.
A transcript in the Danchenko indictment suggests that FBI officials knew Mr. Danchenko was lying in the 2017 interviews. But they did nothing to blow the whistle, nor to tell the public or Congress everything they had learned about the origins of the Russia collusion tale.
The Durham prosecutions also speak poorly of former special counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Mueller’s job was to learn the facts about the collusion allegations, and he had access to everything that the FBI had learned. Yet the Mueller team, led by Democratic partisan Andrew Weissmann, never told the public the Clinton side of the story.
The media also has a lot to answer for. In its conformist disdain for Mr. Trump, the Washington press corps with rare exceptions pursued the Russia collusion story with partisan blinders. They gave each other awards for stories that in retrospect amounted to nothing or, worse, misinformation. Anyone who raised doubts about this narrative, even as the facts mounted against it, was deemed a “Trump enabler.”
The Washington Post this week offered a first sign of media self-reflection, noting the Durham indictments “cast new uncertainty on some past reporting on the dossier by news organizations,” including its own. Yes they do. (read more)
Perhaps the media will eventually arrive to a place where they admit the entire purpose of Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller was to coverup the issues that are much bigger than the digestible bites John Durham is currently serving.
Regardless, let’s be clear with our own discussion. Every single person in Washington DC, and every single person who reports on the people in Washington DC, knows that Robert Mueller’s purpose was to coverup for the corrupt activity of the FBI, DOJ, intelligence community and politicians in congress. They all know it. They all know it to a demonstrable certainty. Yet, they pretend as if it’s something just not discussed in polite company.
You may get prosecuted for lying to the FBI. But consider there have been MANY times when a lie was desperately sought to explain what cannot possibly be explained. A lie so good it defies laws of physics, common sense and endures for decades. To illustrate, watch the Zapruder frames of the JFK assassination. It took decades to become known fact. The Warren Commission Report still stands. The lie that Oswald was the sole gunman defies physics as you view part of JFK’s skull flying BEHIND him. My life, along with 2.7 million other veterans were changed by that lie, 58,000 men died later in Vietnam as a result of that lie, our nations history was severely altered forever by that lie. That’s why lies are a sin.
It wasn’t just a coverup.
The Russian Hoax made it nearly impossible for President Trump to implement his agenda from the start.
It gave Rinos an excuse to dismiss POTUS and his attempt to drain the swamp.
It cost many Trump allies all they had, even lower level administration types.
It certainly cost the GOP the 2018 midterms, and even the 2020 election (even though the cheating would have been nearly impossible to overcome).
Tip of the “Insurance Spear”. Klauss and Geo-geo have unlimited resources. And limitless flunkies.
But if the whole world knows it makes it harder for him to complete his dream. Start putting them all in jail. In Big Bertha’s cell.
This is why every time the media speaks of the “January 6 insurrection” I want to throw up.?
Treasonous Rat Bastards every last one of them!
So recently I purchased some emergency food supplies, as I’m sure many of us have. In the process of preparation, I have been focusing on things that will be missed the most. Obvious necessities come to mind. Built up a water store. But, one thing escapes me.
Where lie our lines of communication?
Let’s face it. We are “Personna non-grata”. We are being confronted by “1984” brainwashing propaganda, and losing at every turn. We cannot possibly overcome the rampant censorship. The eternal corruption and rot within our internal power structures are now running over with their tyrannical lust. No step is too far adrift for this maniacal regime.
There will come a head.
How will we amass?
After considering a “survival radio”…I considered the source of said “info”. and reconsidered my purchase.
I don’t want a HAM. thx.
When…
CTH goes dark…What then? It’s my end -all source.
Sheesh!
TruthSocial.com
Depends what you actually anticipate.
Internet and electricity going dark? Then all you have is your local community.
Internet is still up but CTH is banned as “terrorism” (aka ‘wrongthink’)? There are plenty of other sites. Learn to speak in code; find search engines and browsers that aren’t Google. Technologies like IPFS and crypto will take off. They can never censor everything – there are far more sane people than there are elites.
They label us as fools, or worse, and continue their quest to create their perfect, foolproof world.
They will fail. Again.
Nothing can be made foolproof because fools are too ingenious.
They call us the useless eaters. They call our politicians useful idiots.
They have underestimated the blue collar workers.
Buy great books to read during quiet time.
As Vilfredo Pareto noted in 1927, no more than a statistically normal thirty trustworthy functionaries of ability, character, integrity, could provide any Executive Branch with sub-contracted expertise, Intelligence, to maintain disinterested national security divorced from scuttering Rats’ backstabbing partisan sellouts. See Jefferson, 1801 – ’06: From Davos kleptocrats to Hsi and Putin, Iranian mullah-dullahs, cankerous Central Banking cabals of every stripe, DC’s vile spectrum of McCabe-type plectarchs (“string-pullers”) isn’t worth Alben Barkley’s “bucket of warm spit.”
Bulldozing DC’s official real estate to green-acre parkland, radically decentralizing all adjunct agencies to small-scale nodes throughout all fifty States, repealing Pres. Arthur’s 1883 Pendleton Act, rescinding Kennedy’s pandering 1962 Executive Order #10988, would be a start. Abolishing TR’s blackmail-extortion FBI (1908) plus Truman’s lurking-menace CIA (1948) and McAdoo-Wilson’s self-dealing, irresponsible and unaccountable Federal Reserve Board (1913), repealing gruesomely regressive Amendments XVI and XVII (Federal income-tax, carpet-bagging direct-election of Senators), would set Rats’ glowering moguls back apace.
“Can’t be done,” “too radical,” “punishing devoted public servants (DIPS)” are nothing but Deep State smokescreens for criminalizing free-enterprise competitors, selectively prosecuting political opponents, kowtowing to America’s sworn enemies on every front. Either this country’s riven and illegal-alien polluted polity snaps its historic galluses, or every halfway-decent, self-reliant citizen will board a cattle-car to Auschwitz, paving Hayek’s 1943 Road to Serfdom with headstones. Meantime, PNNA: Patriots need not apply.
The MSM/DOJ/FBI/Mueller/SCSI were all duped by the DNC…..
just like I was duped by my college football buddies into downing that EIGHTH shot of tequila last night.
They were not duped as article states, they were all complicit
Our government from the top to the bottom is a thoroughly corrupt entity and has been for a long long time. Durham must bring down some very powerful people to restore some semblance of order and to hopefully prevent this from happening again.
No one w/a scintilla of brains has missed the complicity of the SPM in this entire Russia Gate Affair. What many don’t realize is that the American press has been the SPM since the turn of the last century. The press’s embrace of the “muckrakers”, their romance w/Roosevelt and his “progressives’ and Wilson’s socialist, blossomed with FDR. The communist leanings of the press were stilled w/WW II and Korea but rose again w/Nam. Obama has let the SPM out of the closet. They are here and in your face. We all better tell them to go f themselves b/c they want us to do that every day. Given what the socialist Russian, German, Chinese, Cuban, and Venezuelan regimes have done to their people we can see what is in store for us if we fail to bite back.
Many if not most people have some understanding of what SD is clearly describing but do not connect it to their everyday lives for many reasons (e.g. time, more direct, pressing priorities, etc.). When gas becomes unavailable and the grocery shelves are empty…. the revolt begins…
After about two weeks without any deliveries; Manhattan would be stripped bare!
It comes faster than most think?
Wall Street Journal is a pathetic rag.
Why does no one dig into the historic patterns of Hillary. She knew she was going to pay for the $145 million gifts to the foundation. {She extorted signatures from the Afgans}. The stockholders made billions they paid her for the extortion with $145 million. She received the bad news on June 26, 2015, from her internal polling. By December 21, 2015’s email she had the suggestion of what to do about it. “Slauder” Trump with Russia. given that who would she call? Sidney Blumenthal, who deployed one of his minions to write the spreadsheet of line items. {Vicky Nuland confirmes this when she said the first round of the dossier was ‘short points’ i.e. a spreadsheet]. The bed deal was a ruse based on the same charge against the PM of Italy in 2009 sub for Obama was Putin. The same story only changed the names. And later we had a 2nd dossier that everyone has forgotten. Written by one of Blumenthal’s minions. And nono has read it except the FBI.
I predict that the Democrats and much of the media will settle on. ” Yes, Hillary’s team may have created the Trump/Russia collusion story, but if Donald Trump was smart enough to think of everything that Hillary’s team created, he would have done it all. So he is still kind of guilty…”