"Steele didn’t give the FBI anything during that meeting that corroborated the claims in his explosive dossier."
Despite that, they were willing to throw $1 million in taxpayer dollars at him for some anti-Trump materials.
Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the explosive allegations in his dossier about Donald Trump, a senior FBI analyst testified Tuesday.The funny thing here is that the FBI was trying to “verify” materials made-to-order by the Clinton campaign, likely relying on sources linked to Putin’s own intel establishment, and one hand had no idea what the other hand was doing. The FBI was trying to verify garbage manufactured to fit a Clinton campaign narrative. It couldn’t be verified because Steele was sloppy. And his sources were apparently even sloppier. The dossier wasn’t supposed to be published (the media still hates Buzzfeed for doing it) because it was so laughably bad.
The cash offer was made during an overseas October 2016 meeting between Steele and several top FBI officials who were trying to corroborate Steele’s claims that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to win the election.
FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified that Steele never got the money because he could not “prove the allegations.”
Auten also said Steele refused to provide the names of any of his sources during that meeting, and that Steele didn’t give the FBI anything during that meeting that corroborated the claims in his explosive dossier.
Clinton’s people at the DOJ presumably understood that the dossier was garbage, but it’s possible that they didn’t. Partisan bias has a way of getting people to believe in the nonsense that they want to believe in. And instead of realizing that it was a cynical ploy to justify Watergate 2.0, they instead had people at the FBI chasing their tails trying to “prove” it was real.
Not exactly a new phenomenon in American politics, but still kind of amusing when it involves top FBI figures being dispatched to prove that stuff made up by Clinton’s smear artists was true because most of the political machine was no longer capable of even understanding that it was in the business of promoting lies and had come to believe the lies it was...
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I really think the FBI should be disbanded, half their employees thrown in jail, the entire organization's records destroyed, and be done. They've been corrupt since Hoover, if not from Elliot Ness. Now they don't even try to hide it and they've become political operatives and enforcers. Screw that.
ReplyDeleteSquash them, then the NSA, then most of the IRS, and nearly all the CIA. Nix the EPA and the DoE as well. Throw out every single government union including the teachers and the post office.
Term limits for all elected officials - 2 terms, whatever the length of the term already is. And for regular government employees, it's a 10 year job, then you can't work for the government ever again unless you get elected or join the military, nor can you be a lobbyist for a decade. We'll let you keep the health benefits for another 5 years. Call it your retirement bonus.
And any credit card company that keeps records of certain kinds of purchases (guns) or doesn't allow certain kinds of legal sales gets into oceans of boiling hot water.
I agree with Drew458 except the Military I would cap at 20 years of service. Any job that you have field work I would cap longer if you have the field work as 20 years, because it will be harder to get the people and retain them. Such jobs will be Forest Service, Border Patrol, ICE, Marshalls, Secret Service, and overseas State Dept. If the field work ends so does the extension of time.
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