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New details claim that McCain had attended oversease meetings as Hillary Clinton’s “secret agent,”

Guess what, John, your cover is blown, the "secret" has been out for more than 30 years that you are nothing but a pathetic little tool of the left.

The fact Donald Trump won the election against all the odds and the active campaign to destroy him just makes it all the More Amazing.

How does this have to progress for there to be real action? A Special Counsel?

This does seem amazing when it gets put together with the Unmaskings and all the collusion with the press, stanky wierserman and donna brazzille leading up to the election.

I'm no a big conspiracy theorist but it's amazing how fast the fight against isis wrapped up after Trump became President. Like we actually tried stopping them instead of wanting it to continue endlessly.

So Clinton funded Steele through Fusion GPS

There is a CNN link to Fusion GPS

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10...-ties-to-fusion-gps/

CNN’s reporting on the Trump-Russia dossier has left out at least one crucial fact: the close ties between the network and the opposition research firm at the center of the dossier controversy.

CNN’s reporting on the dossier, led by justice correspondent Evan Perez, has been favorable to the firm, Fusion GPS, and hyped the dossier’s credibility. Left out of Perez’s reporting, which has relied largely on unnamed sources, is his personal closeness to Fusion GPS’ operatives.

Glenn Simpson, the Fusion co-founder most often associated with the dossier, is used to working on stories with Perez. As reporters at the Journal, Perez and Simpson regularly co-authored stories on national security.

Another Fusion founder, Tom Catan, worked as a reporter for the Journal at the same time as Perez and Simpson. The third Fusion co-founder, Peter Fritsch, worked above Perez and Simpson as the senior national security editor.

Simpson and Fritsch left the WSJ in 2011 to launch Fusion.

Perez jumped from the paper to CNN in 2013.

Another longtime Journal reporter, Neil King, left the paper to join Fusion in December 2016.

Photos posted to Facebook underscore the personal closeness between Perez and the Fusion GPS operatives. One photo posted by Perez shows King, who left the Journal for Fusion in December 2016, and another man posing for a picture at The Bullpen, an outdoor bar right outside of the Washington Nationals’ stadium.

Another photo, from September 2015, shows Perez, King and Fusion co-founder Peter Fritsch.

In 2011, the same year that Fritsch co-founded Fusion, Perez posted two photos on Facebook from an apparent fishing trip with Fritsch.

Simpson’s wife, Mary Jacoby, bragged about his role in the dossier in a lengthy June 2017 Facebook post reviewed by The Daily Caller.

Jacoby claimed that “some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,” referencing the dossier’s thesis. The dossier claimed that Russians had evidence of damaging information on Trump that they would use to blackmail him, an explosive accusation for which there remains no public evidence.

CNN did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment about Perez’s ties to Fusion’s partners.

Fusion GPS, currently at the center of the Russia investigation, has a reputation for working misinformation into the media for political clients.

Alek Boyd, a former associate of Halvorssen’s, says he was also targeted in a similar smear campaign because he drew attention to Derwick’s alleged financial misdeeds. He said he also faced false allegations of being a pedophile, sexual deviant and drug addict.

“Fusion is basically a pen-for-hire shop, whose owners are prepared to concoct completely spurious stories that are fed to media contacts developed over years of legitimate work in reputable outlets,” Boyd told TheDC.

Bill Browder, a renowned human rights activist and top Putin enemy, offered similar testimony before the committee.

Browder described how Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, the same attorney that met with Donald Trump Jr. last year, used Fusion GPS to conduct a smear campaign against him.

Ex-Sheriff David Clarke on the issue. This guy tells it like it is

Sheriff David Clarke slammed Democrats' claims of ignorance in the wake of new revelations that Democrats and the Clinton campaign funded the controversial and salacious Russian dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump.

Former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta and then-Democratic National Committee leader Debbie Wasserman-Schultz have both denied knowledge of funding for the document, created by opposition research firm Fusion GPS.

"The next time Mrs. Bill Clinton, John Podesta, or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz tell the truth will be the first," Sheriff Clarke told "Fox & Friends" on Saturday. "It's their automatic default to just lie."

"America is through with these scumbags," the former Milwaukee Country sheriff assured.

"The American people are all over this," he said, adding that the fishy document is "not just politics. That is corruption."

"They know darn well there was nothing to this story, but they ran with it anyway."

http://insider.foxnews.com/201...nial-russian-dossier

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...ps-bank-records.html

The House Intelligence Committee said Saturday it has struck a deal to gain access to bank records from Fusion GPS, the firm behind the salacious anti-Trump dossier.

The company had recently attempted to block the committee’s subpoena for its banking records.

“The parties have reached an agreement related to the House Intelligence Committee's subpoena for Fusion GPS's bank records that will secure the Committee's access to the records necessary for its investigation,” the intelligence committee said in a statement released Saturday.

I wonder if that's because they knew their case sucked or they think assistance may be the better tactic. Interesting. I wonder if there is a caveat that the information never becomes public.

Well, it's enough to know that the agreement was negotiated - it may easily be true that their case sucked AND they think cooperation could be in their best interests.

At any rate, the devil will be in the details of the "agreement". At the very least Fusion GPS would be nuts to not negotiate to protect the privacy of records relating to other clients. Here's hoping the Committee negotiated a better agreement than some of the agreements we've seen in the last few years.

(Yes, I would've been happier with a court order.)

Roll Tide

The standard Clinton strategy: My lawyer did it. I didn't even know

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.312c0e8721a6

When Marc Elias, general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, hired a private research firm in the spring of 2016 to investigate Donald Trump, he drew from funds he was authorized to spend without oversight by campaign officials, according to a spokesperson for his law firm.

The firm hired by Elias, Fusion GPS, produced research that resulted a dossier detailing alleged connections between Trump and Russia. While the funding for the work came from the campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Elias kept the information about the investigation closely held as he advised the campaign on its strategy, according to the spokesperson, who requested anonymity to discuss the internal dynamics.

Elias drew from funds that both the Clinton campaign and the DNC were paying Perkins Coie,

A spokesman for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), who was DNC chairwoman at the time Perkins Coie contracted with Fusion GPS, said the former chair was “not aware” of the law firm’s arrangement with Fusion.

Elias himself did not receive the dossier but was briefed on some of the information in it, according to his firm’s spokes­person. The dossier was published by BuzzFeed after the election.

Clinton campaign officials who said they were not aware of Elias’s arrangement with the firm defended his decision to tap its resources.

“Marc is known as one of the most skilled professionals in Democratic politics, in addition to being the party’s top election lawyer,” said Brian Fallon, who served as a spokesman for the campaign. “I am damn glad he pursued this on behalf of our campaign and only regret more of this material was not verified in time for the voters to learn it before the election.”

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so old Marc never even got a copy of the dossier that Fusion was shopping to every news media all summer long.

And no one in the campaign or DNC even knew what Marc was doing

more amazing coincidences

Plausible

Deniability

A Federal Election Commission complaint was filed against Perkins Cole- The money was listed as Legal Services not its actual use. There's supposed to be transparency in the financial disclosures so the misleading listing appeared to be illegal.

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Originally posted by sdy:
The standard Clinton strategy: My lawyer did it. I didn't even know

The Clintons have been a beggar’s crossroad for dozens if not hundreds of people who had the misfortune to get involved with them.

Being a Friend of Bill or Hil has been a costly experience, death, jail, ruin of some kind.

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Originally posted by sdy:

“Marc is known as one of the most skilled professionals in Democratic politics, in addition to being the party’s top election lawyer,” said Brian Fallon, who served as a spokesman for the campaign. “I am damn glad he pursued this on behalf of our campaign and only regret more of this material was not verified in time for the voters to learn it before the election.”

If someone asked me who I thought the biggest democrat sleaze is, the name Brian Fallon would be one of the first names to pop into my head. That guy is dirtball to the bone.

Marc Elias of Perkins Coie hired Fusion in April 2016.

another coincidence here:

http://thefederalist.com/2017/...ed-money-fusion-gps/

Obama For America (OFA) paid Perkins Coie $ 98 k in April 2016.

OFA then paid Perkins Coie $ 700k in Sept 2016.

and,

Neil King left WSJ to go to Fusion in December 2016.

His wife (Shailagh Murray) was serving as a top communications adviser to Obama while the Obama administration was reportedly using information from the dossier to justify secret surveillance of Trump campaign staff

In March 2015, she was named as the successor to Dan Pfeiffer as Senior Advisor to the President

Steele started sending reports in June 2016.

June 2016: Obama admin applied for a FISA surveillance warrant on Donald Trump himself. It was denied.

The Obama admin unmasking kicked up in the latter half of 2016.

small world

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Flow of the funding that led to the creation of the 35 page "dossier" that so impressed Clapper / Brennan / Comey

And yet when the dossier was shopped to the Trump hating media, no one dared put out such unsubstantiated garbage until our intel agencies gave it credibility. The same intel who used it to justify FISA warrants

so, tell us again why it is "collusion" to seek opposition research from the Russians

or, tell us who did indeed collude with the Russians to spread wild unconfirmed claims (some of which have been absolutely proven to be lies)

Legitimate question... were the Russians playing both sides?

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Legitimate question... were the Russians playing both sides?

In my opinion, of course they were.

The only reason they were trying to damage Clinton during the campaign was because like everyone else, they too believed that without a doubt she would be the next president, and they wanted her presidency mired in scandal. They, the Russians, wanted to delegitimize her presidency before it ever started.

I'm sure they were as surprised as everyone when Trump won.

The Russians are only on one side. The Russians.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Legitimate question... were the Russians playing both sides?

In my opinion, of course they were.

The only reason they were trying to damage Clinton during the campaign was because like everyone else, they too believed that without a doubt she would be the next president, and they wanted her presidency mired in scandal. They, the Russians, wanted to delegitimize her presidency before it ever started.

I'm sure they were as surprised as everyone when Trump won.

The Russians are only on one side. The Russians.

The threat of scandal. She is a fellow traveller, but needs to be persuaded to travel their way through thick and thin.