Thread by @DawsonSField

Steve @ClimateAudit has a great thread on the 'new' Russia declassification. So far these docs are not new, don't reveal much, but there are some critical dots that may help connect other things. These are just slightly different redactions, erasing some info & revealing some.

https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1351725398762139648

Over the years I have brought up a point that redactions may be done in ways to deceive those of us who fill in the blanks. Here is an example where the "d" was deleted from the word "and" to make it look like it was "an ⬛️⬛️⬛️ source" with us trying to fill in a 3 letter word.

This could clearly deceive us into thinking this was a type or category of source. Rather than a way to camouflage that it was just "his" source which would make no sense after "an" but does after "and".

I think this was done intentionally to fool us into thinking that the 3-letter word was an acronym or abbreviation for an agency the source was from. So people could read that as "an FSB" or "an SVR" source. Rather than just Danchenko's source as the redaction reveals.

This unredacted clip is something we already knew. But it is additional confirmation that Igor Danchenko was using his position at Brookings Institution as camouflage to pretend he was doing academic research, not spying upon people for Steele & Orbis or the Russians.

This is interesting, at some point during the dossier & further investigations of Trump. Orbis stopped interviewing their sources in their offices because they might have been bugged.

"Oh lordy, I hope there are tapes!"

The most interesting thing that I have seen so far. Steele claiming that Fiona Hill knew that Danchenko was working on the dossier for Orbis. I agree with Steve @ClimateAudit that this might contradict with some of her testimony but I've never dug into a word for word dissection.

Interesting info regarding Tillerson. He was Exxon Mobile's CEO but before that he was the Director of their off-shore shell company for Russian business. He was well connected to Swamping oil deals in Russia including Igor Sechin.

This is funny, though he reports it Steele doesn't believe his new Ukrainian source is telling the truth regarding Manafort being a Russian agent. I suspect the same networks that tried to frame Trump & Manafort also had a hand in framing Biden that Trump sanctioned them for.

Very interesting issue at the bottom of the page, Steele felt that Clinton operative Cody Shearer was offering him information as a 'dangle' or 'operational games'. So even Steele felt the Clinton reporting on Trump was not credible & may have been an effort to use him.

Belief that Shearer was dangling a fake pee tape to him & the FBI to try & get them to report it. Essentially trying to launder Shearer's garbage into Steele or FBI reporting so that they can claim it is the product of senior intelligence & law enforcement officials.

This has been factor all along. The media leaks regarding Trump Russia were always sourced to "intelligence reporting", a foreign intelligence official" or "senior law enforcement sources" that were just regurgitating the fake info while CIA & some at FBI tried to hide the source

The worse thing that happened to the coup plot was Buzzfeed publishing it. Comey's briefing of Trump gave them the hook to make that document newsworthy. But publishing allowed it to be fact checked & proven to be worthless. It went from 'intelligence reporting' to fan fiction!