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    1. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10

      @emptywheel Who is Adam Waldman? He works for Oleg Deripaska. He is the go between for Mark Warner and Christopher Steele. He visited Julian Assange Nine times in 2017. How can these three things all be true?

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    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 10
      Replying to @ombudsman4truth

      To be accurate, he is a lawyer/lobbyists who worked for three people: Deripaska and Assange, and in some form, Steele. Yes, those relations should present conflicts if this was a legal relationship, but not if it was a fixer relationship.

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    3. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
      Replying to @emptywheel

      But these three clients are all on diametrically opposed ends of Russiagate : a Putin connected Oligarch, the boy scout "revealing" the conspiracy, and the man at the center of everything. What are the odds they'd all have the same lawyer?

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    4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 10
      Replying to @ombudsman4truth

      No. Deripaska and Assange are on the same side. The question is why the boy scout (who is actually an intelligence professional, which is always more amibiguous than scouting) believed Waldman was operating in good faith.

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    5. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Well because he, too, was working for Deripaska. He was texting Bruce Ohr in January 2016 about helping Deripaska get his visa. Also Deripaska is a huge Russiagate Skeptic. At least he claims to be. How does that put him on Team Assange?http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/the-ever-changing-russia-narrative-in-american-politics-is-cynically-false-public-manipulation/ …

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    6. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 10
      Replying to @ombudsman4truth

      I can't tell whether you're engaging in this discussion in good faith. No. Steele wasn't "working for Deripaska." He was talking about sources with someone who had used his intelligence ON THAT TOPIC.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 10
      Replying to @emptywheel @ombudsman4truth

      And Deripaska was almost certainly the architect of Trump's disinformation strategy. So to call an obvious propaganda piece proof that he's a "Russiagate" (consider why you use the term at all, which is dumb) skeptic is proof you don't understand disinformation.

      6:25 AM - 10 Aug 2018
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        2. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Ombudsman4Truth Retweeted Ombudsman4Truth

          well, yeah, I don't buy it. I run Deripaska is playing games. Here's my thread on this. Please have a look.https://twitter.com/ombudsman4truth/status/1027545618309369856?s=19 …

          Ombudsman4Truth added,

          Ombudsman4Truth @ombudsman4truth
          Oleg Deripaska I believe is the man behind the curtain when it comes to Russiagate. He's had a long running problem with the US denying him a Visa, going back before 2009. However he began working with the FBI in 2009 under Mueller. pic.twitter.com/j7OauEe9fc
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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 10
          Replying to @ombudsman4truth

          Wow. Hilariously bad. Ever heard of a guy name Konstantin Kilimnik?

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        4. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Sure, what about him?

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        5. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
          Replying to @ombudsman4truth @emptywheel

          On the one hand, you say Steele and Deripaska are linked because he was a source for Steele. then on the other hand you say Deripaska and Assange are linked because Deripaska was involved in getting the hacked emails to him. I don't see how both can be true

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        6. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
          Replying to @ombudsman4truth @emptywheel

          And if you really think the Steele Dossier is pure disinfo, what are your thoughts on it's being used to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page?, You must agree with Sean Hannity and Devin Nunes I'd assume

          5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        7. runtodaylight‏ @runtodaylight Aug 10
          Replying to @ombudsman4truth @emptywheel

          Since February, you disagree with Trey Gowdy. "The dossier has nothing to do with an email sent by Cambridge Analytica. The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos' meeting in Great Britain. It also doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice.”

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        8. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
          Replying to @runtodaylight @emptywheel

          The question was about the FISA

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        2. Stirgleton‏ @OuijaForestCat Aug 10
          Replying to @emptywheel @ombudsman4truth

          Feels like these past few days you've worked hard to imply that the info Deripaska gave Steele falls outside the category of info you believe to be a "thing of value" for purposes of election law. Is this intended as a rebuttal of Turley's Aug. 6 column?http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/400609-if-trump-meeting-is-illegal-then-clinton-dossier-is-criminal-too …

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        3. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
          Replying to @OuijaForestCat @emptywheel

          What informantion did Deripaska give Steele?

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        4. Stirgleton‏ @OuijaForestCat Aug 10
          Replying to @ombudsman4truth @emptywheel

          I honestly don't know. Marcy has said she believes, or at least strongly suspects, that much of what went into the Steele dossier was disinformation inserted at Deripaska's behest. You'll have to ask her if you want specifics.

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        5. Ombudsman4Truth‏ @ombudsman4truth Aug 10
          Replying to @OuijaForestCat @emptywheel

          Well, that would actually be a possible answer to my original question I posed to her. Except I still don't get how their lawyer is also visiting Julian Assange more than anyone else. So maybe D is using Steele to throw us off the scent of him hacking the DNC and supplying WL🤔

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