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The Fraudulent Paper Trail Through the Anti-Trump Conspiracy theepochtimes.com/the-fraudulent… via @epochtimes

The salient fact to hang onto here is that the DNC’s computer server—according to Crowdstrike, the scene of the “Russian” crime—was not and has never been examined by the FBI or any other U.S. security agency.

The DNC did not permit the FBI to investigate, which, of course, doesn’t sound fishy at all. Further, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI blithely accepted the (redacted) findings that “Russia hacked the DNC” from Crowdstrike and then told the American people to do the same.

Certainly, the authenticity of the Crowdstrike report has not been demonstrated. Nonetheless, it continues to paint the aura of Russian espionage around Julian Assange and augment the case of “Trump-Russia collusion.”

Dodgy Doc #2 is the notorious “Steele dossier,” that elegantly named pile of opposition research created by a ruthless outfit known as Fusion GPS on behalf of, we finally learned in the fall of 2017, the DNC and the Clinton Campaign.

The problem with this “evidence” that Donald Trump was simultaneously a pervert and a traitor to Russia is that it is either unverifiable trash, or Kremlin disinformation, or both.

Both of these products of DNC contractors, Dodgy Docs #1 and #2, form the fake “evidentiary” core around which the anti-Trump conspiracy coalesced and expanded throughout 2016 and beyond.

Because this core is rotten, every subsequent document based on it is rotten, too.

Dodgy Document #3, perhaps the first of many spin-offs of the “Steele dossier,” is the FISA application and subsequent renewals presented by the Department of Justice and FBI to gain permission from the FISA court to spy on Carter Page and the wider Trump team.

The Department of Justice and FBI obscured the application/renewals’ roots in the unverified “Steele dossier” from the FISA court, and, later, tried to hide them altogether from the American people.

With its “Steele dossier” roots, the authenticity of the FISA application and its renewals certainly cannot be demonstrated, either.

Dodgy Doc #4 is the Obama administration Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), another compilation of Trump-Russia smears rooted in Dodgy Doc #2 (the “Steele dossier”), and probably Dodgy Doc #1 (the Crowdstrike report)

As in the FISA application, the ICA’s “Steele dossier” connections were initially and vehemently denied. We are at a point now when its main sponsors—Clapper, Brennan and Comey—are arguing about who shoveled the “Steele dossier” material into the ICA in the first place

There’s more. The ICA claim that Russian military intelligence “exfiltrated large volumes of data from the DNC” almost certainly draws from Dodgy Doc #1 (the Crowdstrike report).

One of the more alarming attributes of the 2017 ICA is its staying power. That is, Trump administration ODNI, CIA, and FBI chiefs have not withdrawn it for being a non-credible political hit piece, even though the ICA contains its own confidence-undermining disclaimer:

“Assessments are based on collected information, which is often incomplete or fragmentary, as well as logic, argumentation, and precedents.....

… High confidence in a judgment does not imply that the assessment is a fact or a certainty; such judgments might be wrong.”

It is thus especially disturbing to report that when Mike Pompeo, Trump’s first appointee to lead the CIA, called Julian Assange’s Wikileaks “a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,”

....he also told us he was relying explicitly on this the same dodgy ICA document to make this charge.

Punked by his predecessors, Pompeo put it this way: “In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of U.S. victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the DNC”

Dodgy Document #5 is the so-called Scope Memo, which sets forth instructions from Rod Rosenstein to Robert Mueller regarding the parameters of the Special Counsel investigation into Trump-Russia collusion. We now know the Scope Memo, too, was based on the “Steele dossier.”

More authenticity problems, and not for the Scope Memo alone, but for the entire Mueller investigation, which was beset by prosecutorial madness and extensive conflicts of interest.

Dodgy Doc #6 is Special Counsel Mueller’s indictment of a string of Russian GRU officers for their “hack” of the DNC. The evidence against the GRU officers is derived from findings in Dodgy Doc #1, the Crowdstrike report, which might as well have been conjured from the air.

This would be a colossal joke if it weren’t happening to our country.

Dodgy Doc #7 is the Mueller Report itself, the written record of one of the most shameful episodes in American history, a time when the peaceful transfer of power, sanctioned by a national election, was shattered and subverted....

.... by a hidden cabal whose denizens ran the most powerful institutions of the U.S. government against Us, the People.

When—I should say “if”—nothing happens to these perpetrators of fraud and deception, we will know that they or their allies still do run those institutions.

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