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This is the CNN article, which begins:
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.
Hmmm. But as the Atlantic piece points out:
That doesn’t mean the claim that Russian agents possessed the information was necessarily true. The origin of the claim, in fact, is decidedly partisan. A major source for the report delivered to Trump was a set of memos prepared by a former British intelligence operative, who gathered the information while working as an opposition researcher for both anti-Trump Republicans and later for Democrats.
What to think, Daggers, what to think ...
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According to the NYT, "The two-page summary, first reported by CNN, was presented as an appendix to the intelligence agencies’ report on Russian hacking efforts during the election, the officials said. The material was not corroborated, and The New York Times has not been able to confirm the claims. But intelligence agencies considered it so potentially explosive that they decided Mr. Obama, Mr. Trump and congressional leaders needed to be told about it and informed that the agencies were actively investigating it." Along with the somewhat obvious takeaway that, "The decision of top intelligence officials to give the president, the president-elect and the so-called Gang of Eight — Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress and the intelligence committees — what they know to be unverified, defamatory material was extremely unusual."
Then again, we need only to listen to Trump ...
by barefooted on Tue, 01/10/2017 - 8:42pm
Trump cannot clean this up.Karma is a female dog. Trump made Obama produce a long-form birth certificate. Now Trump's perversions are going to be exposed. Donny will be viewed as worse than Silvio Berlusconi internationally.
Edit to add:
The first response from some news quarters was to call into question the initial report about Russia's involvement in the election and Russia favoring Trump. The final intelligence report documented the rationale behind the initial report.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 01/10/2017 - 10:44pm
Missy
Put this on a regular blog for chrissakes.
hahahahahah
You beat me tonite. hahahahah
But you beat me on a news feed. hahhaha
we should only listen to trump right now or just read his feeds from twitter.
hhahahaah
There is no truth except for trump truth.
Or else we are all in peril. hahahha
Oh and Missy, THEY ARE WATCHING YOU!
I laugh because if they are watching me, they are wasting their time.
by Richard Day on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 11:57pm
UK Guardian:
Republicans only believe the most trustworthy incorruptible sources. Like Fox News, Briebart News, Alex Jones Infowars, Julian Assange, Putin or Trump himself.
by NCD on Tue, 01/10/2017 - 10:44pm
I checked the official US news site, Breitbart, and they say it's a mendacious media setup. So it's a non-story.
BTW, suddenly the media is concerned about not publishing things that can't be confirmed. Shame that ideal couldn't be followed with FBI reports or a front page "expose" on the Clinton Foundation taken straight from the partisan hackjob pamphlet "Clinton Money"
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 2:40am
Excellent points. They don't recognize the double standard.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 7:40am
That's being kind. I suspect "she deserves it" is the real answer.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 7:50am
Good news - now it's Buzzfeed's fault.
Never forget how Dan Rather got fired over George Bush not showing up for Guard duty.
Republicans are masters at deflection - that's how they never have to do anything.
Trump's even better - he doesn't even have to pretend. Or is it all he does is pretend? I'm confused.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 8:53am
Erik Wemple, via the Washington Post, seems particularly concerned. Why would Buzzfeed actually publish unverified materials?? Scandalous!
On the other, more rational WaPo hand ...
by barefooted on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 11:58am
It's been out there for months - I first saw it on the back of Obama's long form. Even had the seal, so must be true.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 12:19pm
"Unfair" Trump no like leaks - who knew?
"Unfair" key on his keyboard wearing out.
7-year-olds everywhere joining in: "why can't I stay up to watch TV - Mommy, it's unfaaaaiiiirrrr".
#DonaldsMother not amused - no supper. Maybe the Home Alone 7-year-old can help him out.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 3:41pm
I suppose it could be ADD interfering with your understanding that Trump was addressing what appears to be the leak of information from a classified briefing by highly placed US officials in service of a bogus partisan smear, unfair is an understatement, Nazi Germany like is accurate.
by Peter (not verified) on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 8:57pm
I see what you mean.
It is like when the the head of the FBI put out this totally bogus report about Clinton's email server just before the election that was dropped right after the election.
These totally partisan government agency hit jobs are a real drag.
You should put your best people on the problem.
by moat on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 9:26pm
David Corn reported on the dossier that was put together by the former British operative in October. He didn;t go into salacious details but from what he wrote in Mother Jones, it was from the same source and indicated blackmail potential. So this story was "leaked" months before it was leaked again, and not by US intelligence agents, but by The Guardian and other players.
Of course the FBI knew all about this at LEAST by October but they sat on it because it would have been unseemly to tamper in an election. Oh, wait.....
by CVille Dem on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 9:48pm
It's probably good to make light of some of this drama because the butt-hurt from the death of a thousand cuts is probably unbearable for many Clintonites. I think the most damageing wounds were self inflicted but the Red Queen's private words to her paymasters were powerful. Most if not all of these government departments will be getting new management very soon so we should expect better behavior.
We live in strange times when the uncovering of the truth about a candidate exposing her untrustworthyness and lack of ethical qualifications for the presidency is bemoned as foreign interference while evidence free slurs and accusations aimed at the winner are cheered by the losers.
by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 1:24am
Except the Count of Mar-a-Lago showers were golden, the Nazis used Zyklon-B.
by NCD on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 9:26pm
I think we all know that such malicious unsubstantiated gossip shouldn't be published and any site that published it should be shunned as unreliable. Hal would be apoplectic if something similar was published about Sanders. I would be furious if something like it was published about Hillary.
But this is the way of the world now and the republicans and Trump deserve most of the blame for the condition. It began in a big way during the Clinton years mostly lies against Hillary. Republicans used innuendo and lies against Kerry and Gore though to a lesser degree. It came back full on against Obama with birtherism and the Muslim lies. Trump led those false attacks and was rewarded for them. So I'm not upset that he's now slimed by innuendo and unsubstantiated attacks. What goes around comes around.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 1:33pm
Even the Democrats deserve a nice dish of wabi-sabi now and then.
by barefooted on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 2:19pm
Christopher Steeles 'unsubtantiated gossip' on officials at soccers FIFA was eventually substantiated:
and this:
by NCD on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 2:51pm
UK Guardian:
by NCD on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 4:52pm
It's not only Steele's track record that should be taken into account, but the Soviet "Kompromat" history as well. It helped to put Putin where he is today, so it's a fair assumption that he's still quite fond of the old ways.
by barefooted on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 6:29pm
We do have "Hazmat" as a term. I was surprised Paul wasshisname, Monfort?, Trump's Ukrainian campaign advisor, passed into the night so quickly with no questions. No curiosity anymore?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/12/2017 - 11:53pm