-you claim that Steele is respected
-you try and make it look like Republicans had something to do with the dossier
-you absolve Hillary
-you fail to tell your readers that NOTHING has been corroborated
-you claim that questions over the dossier are "partisan attacks"
-you unskeptically repeat misinformation about GOP funding
-you mislead your readers about the fact that Steele hasn't been in Russia in decades
-you unskeptically parrot Clinton lies nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/…
This one is particularly egregious:
-you again misdirect about GOP funding of the dossier
-but then you go all in on creating false innuendo about the role that Washington Free Beacon and Paul Singer might've played in creating the dossier
The article is a giant whitewash of the fact that the FBI kept used Steele, even after he was fired, with Ohr as the conduit.
You make it look as if that was really about Deripaska and the Trump stuff was just incidental. nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/…
Bonus from the previous article. Steele roping in Ohr at every opportunity and every step of the way was just "a friendly heads-up". It definitely had nothing to do with getting his dossier lies into the FBI and DOJ.
Not sure I can take 22 minutes of Ken and his fellow stenographer Matt Apuzzo talking about the dossier but if anyone feels like it, here it is:
Franklin Foer, the stenographer who wrote the fraudulent Slate article smearing Trump and Alfa, sent Fusion GPS an advance copy of that piece after having been told "time to hurry".
Slate was very excited about smearing Trump and Alfa.
This is fascinating. Recall that Jones "investigated" the Alfa-Trump link for McCain and his Armed Services Committee. Looks like Alfa see Jones as some sort of patsy (albeit a partisan one) who didn't understand what he was doing. That's generous but not a bad strategy.
Wow. The Fusion bros funded Jones who in turn "investigated" the fake Alfa story for McCain's Armed Services Committee. That doesn't sound very kosher.
2/ The remarkable similarities between a recently leaked 2018 proposal from EcoHealth Alliance head Peter Daszak and the defining characteristics of Covid-19 raise new questions regarding the origins of the pandemic.
3/ The proposal sets out the Daszak’s plan to create entirely new, synthetic coronaviruses that were going to be made more virulent in humans by the insertion of a furin cleavage site, a feature that distinguishes Covid-19 from all other SARS-related coronaviruses.
1/ ICYMI we now have a smoking gun in the lab leak saga. Daszak and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had detailed plans for inserting a furin cleavage site into SARS-like bat coronaviruses.
2/ We know this because a whistleblower leaked a Daszak 2018 funding proposal to DRASTIC (huge props to the whistleblower and @TheSeeker268).
The funding proposal is littered with incriminating evidence, all of which "scientists" tried to cover up over the past 20 months.
3/ The most important revelation is that Daszak planned to use gain-of-function experiments to artificially insert “human-specific cleavage sites” into coronaviruses in order to increase their ability to infect human cells.
1/ One of the interesting upshots from the Sussmann indictment is that we now have a very tangible example of the Steele m.o., i.e. where Steele takes orders from the Hillary campaign and just make up shit made from whole cloth, tailor made in accordance with the orders given.
2/ Specifically, Steele met Sussmann on July 29, 2016 and was told about Alfa. At some point, either through Sussmann or Simpson, Steele was then told to write up another one of his bullshit reports to coincide with Sussmann taking the fabricated Alfa "evidence" to the FBI.
3/ The result was the infamous report 112 issued on Sep 14, 2016, five days before Sussmann pulled the trigger with Baker from the FBI.
Report 112 is the subject of the ongoing Alfa v Simpson lawsuit.
This was all known but the indictment still provides helpful confirmation.