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Remember when the Russiagate chatrooms known as Slate, NYT, The New Yorker, MSNBC etc promoted the conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign secretly communicated w/ Russia's Alfa Bank? You'll be shocked to learn where that one came from: the Clinton camp! dailycaller.com/2020/04/27/chr…
Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy whose claim to fame is supplying US intelligence officials & credulous media hacks w/ a dossier of embarrassing conspiracy theories that kept them busy for 3 years, says a DNC/Clinton lawyer gave him the brilliant idea about Trump-Alfa Bank:
.@FranklinFoer got the ball rolling on the Alfa Bank theory in Slate back in October 2016. (slate.com/articles/news_…). Dexter Filkins picked up the baton for the New Yorker two years later. Have either of them acknowledged that their story was debunked?
Here's @NatashaBertrand on the Alfa Bank story, October 2018: "I mean, what more evidence do you need? It’s very, very obvious."
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1/ So remember how the FBI launched the entire Trump-Russia probe based on the ridiculous predicate that a low-level unpaid volunteer had "suggested the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia" that it could release some kind of "unclear" information?
2/ Now we learn that FBI too didn't even see that predicate as legit. Asked why FBI didn't seek a FISA on Papadopoulos -- i.e. the predicate -- McCabe said his "comment didn't particularly indicate that he was the person that had had -- that was interacting with the Russians."
3/ If the FBI believes that Papadopoulos' "comment didn't particularly indicate that he was the person that was interacting with the Russians" -- then why did it open & continue its entire Trump-Russia investigation based on that comment?
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Interesting admission in Crowdstrike CEO Shaun Henry's testimony. Henry is asked when "the Russians" exfiltrated the data from DNC.

Henry: "We did not have concrete evidence that the data was exfiltrated from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated." 🤔
More from Crowdstrike's Shaun Henry: "There are times when we can see data exfiltrated, and we can say conclusively. But in this case it appears it was set up to be exfiltrated, but we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left." (intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…)
This takes me back to the qualified, ambiguous Mueller language I highlighted in my @RCInvestigates report "Crowdstrikeout." The attribution of DNC hacking to Russia is tentative & appears at least partly based on inference, not hard evidence. (realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…)
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Tax filings from @TheIntercept's parent company (projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…) show that "Senior National Security Correspondent" James Risen was paid $305,950 in 2018.

By my count, Risen wrote 18 pieces, so that's over $16,000 per column. The bulk of it was Russiagate fan fiction.
Here are some examples of the Russiagate fan fiction columns that The Intercept paid James Risen $305,950 for. I believe this makes him one of the highest paid fan fiction writers in the US media:
Some more examples of the Russiagate fan fiction that James Risen produced in 2018, when the Intercept paid him $305,950:
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