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.@ChuckRossDC, the facts are not on your side. In the book, we reported the Steele memos were full of unconfirmed allegations. And we reported that there was little time in Moscow for Trump to have the alleged pee party....
We reported that Steele thought that allegation was at best 50-50.
I have repeatedly said Steele memo specifics were unproven. But I have said his first memo hit themes—Moscow attempting to cultivate Trump and interactions between Trump campaign and Russia—that did line up with information that emerged later.
The book does not hail the memos. And the memos were not the basis for our conclusion that Trump “aided and abetted” Putin’s attack on a US election.
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Interesting point. So while cybersecurity experts were saying the Russians were the culprits—as we report in “Russian Roulette”—@ggreenwald was challenging this and taking handouts from a front (per Mueller) for Russian intelligence?
I don’t begrudge @ggreenwald or anyone else their skepticism of government sources. (Hey, @Isikoff and I wrote a book on Bush’s WMD con.) But there were other sources at the time. And perhaps a wee bit of skepticism was also warranted about Moscow’s and Guccifer 2.0’s denials.
After all, who wants to end up a part of a Russian operation to subvert a US election to help a paranoid and bigoted rightwing demagogue become president?
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David Corn
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If you read "Russian Roulette," @ggreenwald, you'd know that it is not based on the Steele memos. We reported on how they came to be & noted that their specific allegations remained largely unproven. Our finding-Trump "aided and abetted" the Russian attack-was not based on them.
Our book covered how Russia attacked a US election and chronicled the curious and troubling Trump-Russia interactions that occurred before, during, and afterward--and how Trump and his crew falsely denied the attack was underway, echoing and amplifying Moscow disinformation...
...essentially running interference for the Russian operation....So if you think its gotcha to point out that @Isikoff disparaged the Steele memos, then I question whether you really understand the Trump-Russia scandal and how we have written about it.
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David Corn
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.@MichaelRCaputo it's a bit of fakery for you to say my book has been disproven and then indicate you cannot provide a single example because you don't want to buy it.
And the notion that FISAs started because of @Isikoff's work is disproven by the public record. You can review that...without spending a dime. Check out this story:
washingtonpost.com/news/politics/… ....
It shows the @Isikoff story was included in the FISA warrant because the article included a section in which Carter Page *denied* he was in league with Russia. It did not get the FISA rolling. So can we please have a debate based on facts, not snark and misrepresentation?
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