1/ Papadop fanboys nearly all misunderstand why I'm so critical. I disbelieved Steele dossier on its face and, very early on, decided that Comey was a liar, and, relatively early on, that Brennan had been dangling breadcrumbs to FBI, turning Comey after election.
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2/ if Mifsud, Sambei, LCILP and Downer were part of some elaborate conspiracy to set up Papadop, then it will be relatively trivial to expose everything. If that happens, I'd enjoy the popcorn as much as anyone and be happy to eat crow on my doubts on this aspect of events.
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3/ but there's a real possibility (almost certainty in my opinion), that there was very serious misconduct by intel community, but that Mifsud-Sambei-LCILP-Downer were not part of any conspiracy and that Papadop, a serial liar, is once again misdirecting everyone
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4/ the risk in going a bridge too far with Papadop allegations is this: defenders of intel community misconduct are very smart; they will seize on the weakest element in the case against them and mercilessly expose it as a sort of vaccination of wider public against valid charges
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5/ I've encountered this in climate controversy. There are some skeptics who invariably go a bridge too far. They are easy targets and are used to discredit valid critiques.
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6/ If you're playing high-stakes hardball, you have to play more or less error-free ball. That's why it's important to be very self-critical and why I'm so adamant in not being over-exposed on someone as unreliable as Papadop, a serial liar.
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I'm a long time fan of LeCarre. Tho comparison I'd make is that infatuation of US intel with Steele dossier was similar to that of LeCarre protagonists with fake Witchcraft intel, unraveling of which by Smiley brought down traitor Bill Haydon.
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Check out the quotes from Le Carre in this article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460 … "For a while you wondered whether the fools were pretending to be fools as some kind of deception, or whether there was a real efficient service somewhere else. Later in my fiction, I invented one."
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The organization that produced Christoper Steele. Wow !
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