The country is going to pay for the divinely inpsired madness that was the FBI's decision to get involved with the Steele dossier for years to come.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/us/politics/trump-fbi-justice.html …
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Any charges against Trump family members are arguably both criminal and counter-intel, but also political. And an obstruction case against a sitting president--which is where things seem to be heading--is primarily political. They're all intertwined and cannot be otherwise.
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Yep. Which is why the dossier is such a ready-made cudgel for Trump. "They're using Hillary's dirt to try to get rid of me and undo the election!" That alone ensures no R will go along with it or, more importantly, be allowed to go along with it.
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Yes, that's how they're playing it. And looking only at the strategic aspect, the move makes sense. But does that mean the FBI should have ignored the reasonable suspicion against Carter Page in 2016? If they did, they wouldn't be doing their job.
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Nope. And as I've said, Trump did this to himself by associating with Page, Manafort, Flynn, et al. And there was dirt there on them already. Which is why I will never understand why it didn't just toss the dossier. Its provenance was a landmine for them and they stepped on it.
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Interesting question, and impossible to fully answer without knowing everything the FBI knew. Potentially, Steele provided some info that matched other sources, and some that didn't. The former makes the latter worth investigating. But why not use only other sources? Don't know.
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What's the counter-intel part of the Manafort/Gates case?
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Manafort worked for Ukraine's Russia-allied leader Viktor Yanukovych, spearheading a lobbying campaign in the US. That, on its own isn't illegal. But when he ran the Trump campaign, the Republican party platform changed its stance towards Ukraine. Worth investigating why.
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