Did the Clinton campaign, the DNC and Senator John McCain disseminate information on the unverified Trump Dossier to the press. The answer on the first two counts is “yes.” As for John McCain, that question is still up in the air. Although the Senator denies the allegations that he handed it off to others besides just Director James B. Comey at the FBI, it has not been verified.
In fact, in response to a Daily Caller reporter asking whether he was the Buzzfeed source (this online news site first broke the story), his response to the question was undeniably testy and arrogant: “I gave it to no one except for the director of the FBI. I don’t know why you’re digging this up now?”
Aside from the plain fact that John McCain lies for many different reasons, to trust his word that he was not the Buzzfeed source is to trust his word that he’ll repeal ObamaCare and didn’t actually vote for Hillary Clinton (my personal opinion is that he voted for Hillary twice!)
At any rate, could it be that Hillary called in a favor at the McCain residence on that rainy night when she asked him to contact Michael Steele in Surrey, London for a “bit of a shocker report”? I imagine the conversation went something like this:
MCCAIN: Thanks, honey…yello?
BILL: Hey, Johnnie! It’s Bill.
MCCAIN: Hey, Bill! How’s it hangin’?
BILL: A little to the Left…if you know what I mean!
[both guffawing]
BILL: Hey, Johnnie, listen…Hillary wants to talk to you, okay?
MCCAIN: [nervous] To me? [pause] What’d I do?
BILL: No, no, Johnnie! [laughing] You got it wrong. This is a different kind of call. Hold on.
HILLARY: [in the background] Did you wipe it down? I won’t touch it till you do!
BILL: Here, just take it!
HILLARY: Hello.
MCCAIN: Hillary, what a pleasure to hear from you!
HILLARY: Yeah. So I called to let you in on a little secret.
MCCAIN: About the uranium thing? We already know about –
HILLARY: John! It’s about the doofus!
MCCAIN: Cruz?
HILLARY: No…the other one.
MCCAIN: Oh. What about him?
HILLARY: Bill’s going to give you a number to call in London. His name’s Steele. I need you to talk to him about a collection of documents on the doofus. Then I want you to get the documents to that idiot, Comey.
MCCAIN: What kinds of documents?
HILLARY: [begins laughing sinisterly] Let’s just say that he’ll never recover from this.
MCCAIN: [chuckling] Okay, Hillary. Whatever you need.
Perhaps the conversation wasn’t as cloak-and-dagger, but in my mind, this is EXACTLY how it went down. Anyway, that said, there is another aspect of this information that’s been leaking out from Nunes’s investigation into the Dossier and the Fusion GPS bank records. It appears that elements involved in the creation of this fictional dossier had actually paid journalists to disseminate the story and the DNC-implied ramifications to the public through their various news outlets!
The role of reporters is taking on added importance in federal court battles over the infamous Russia dossier that leveled unverified charges of collusion against the Donald Trump campaign.
In U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Fusion GPS, the dossier’s financier via the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign money, is fighting a House committee chairman’s bid to find out if the opposition research firm paid journalists.
The cases underscore how a Moscow-sourced memorandum created as opposition research against Donald Trump in the presidential campaign last year often dictates the debate about politics and reporters’ rights in Washington.
Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, signed a subpoena to force a bank to turn over Fusion’s financial records. He wants to know who paid for the dossier, which was written in a series of 18 memos by former British spy Christopher Steele. He relied almost exclusively on unidentified Kremlin sources.
Fusion went to federal court to block the move, but the law firm Perkins Coie LLP, whose partner Marc E. Elias is the Clinton’s campaign’s general counsel, intervened. It filed a letter acknowledging it had paid Fusion for the dossier on behalf of Democrats. Fusion and Mr. Nunes then worked out an agreement on access to some of the firm’s financial records.
But the dispute heightened again Friday as Fusion renewed its request for a judge to block the subpoena because Mr. Nunes wants more information. The widened net includes the names of journalists and law firms that Fusion might have paid.
On the demand for information on any payments to journalists, Fusion cited First Amendment protection and confidentiality. It did not deny it had paid journalists.
The fact that Nunes “worked out an agreement” with the scum that dreamed up all this crap fiction is worrisome, but perhaps it was a strategic agreement in order to be able to get at other information. What other information could possibly be so important as to require this level of protection and fanatic response?
Could the financial/bank records not only point to journalists at many big media outlets who were bribed to spread these lies, but perhaps other high-ranking people as well. Could there possibly be a link in finances to Obama-funded committees, or maybe John Kasich, or the Bushes? How about Comey and the FBI? Are there also links to those organizations? Could there be links to James Clapper, Susan Rice or Sally Yates?
If these records are found to be necessary to the Nunes-led investigation, we may be quite shocked by the revelations. With the loss of the governor’s seats in both Virginia and New Jersey, the Republicans will have to keep on with their momentum while the Democrats take a victory lap in races that should not have been a cause for concern. The media will take up the narrative that these were Trump defeats, while they cross their fingers and hope that the American public will forget about all the other Democrat scandals that have been hounding them for months.
Source: The Washington Times
Going down for what? Please tell us for what he would be “going down” for?
Round ’em up and move ’em out