Thread by @BryanDeanWright

Of the many Trump Resistance fighters in the intel community, one in particular stands out this week.

@john_sipher

He once led the CIA’s Russia House, using that experience to insist in WaPo, NY Times, Politico etc that Trump was a Russian asset.

Here he is on the dossier:

https://twitter.com/just_security/status/905397253858320384

Here‘s CIA’s John Sipher — in collusion w/ Slate — telling America in 2017 that “a whole lot” of the Steele dossier was corroborated, further fueling the Russia hysteria.

None of it was, in fact, corroborated.
slate.com/news-and-polit…

And here‘s John Sipher — in collusion w/ Newsweek — telling America that Steele was “serious & credible” and his dossier a “coherent narrative.”

Nevermind that the FBI fired Steele for cause and found his sources “may engage in some embellishment.” newsweek.com/what-exactly-d…

And here’s John Sipher relaying a declious quote on Steele from a CIA pal:

“I assign more credence to the Steele report knowing that the FBI paid him for his research. If they were willing to pay Mr. Steele, they must have seen something of real value.”

justsecurity.org/44697/steele-d…

And here’s John Sipher IN MAY 2019 — colluding with The Atlantic — insisting that there are “troubling patterns, unanswered questions, and tantalizing leads” that could yet prove Trump is a Russian plant.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

In sum, @john_sipher is a CIA nutter.

And those in MSM that have given him a platform — & give it to him still — are complicit in spreading a hysteria that has consumed the republic and unjustly undermined a president.

They must all face a public accounting for their treachery.