Can we also draw a distinction between oppo research & what Russia was offering? Stop buying DJTjr's narrative that it was oppo.
Was gonna respond that distinction is a bit squishy to make. After all, Clinton surrogate paid $$ to pay Russians in Kremlin for dirt.
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What example are you talking about? Steele Dossier? That's different.
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I agree it's different. But it still involved paying $$ to people in the Kremlin for dirt on a political opponent.
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I've made the distinction, in the wake of the letter, based on the policy quid pro quo. But oppo research does get really sleazy.
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Again, I agree it is different, largely bc it was offered up and discussed in context of quid pro quo. But oppo goes well beyond public info
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Getting ppl to talk (human sourcing) is different than committing crimes to get the info. For example, torturing to get oppo, not ok.
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I'm not sure where the torture came in? Comparison is Steele (no qpq) v Don Jr (implied qpq).
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Steele conducting research not at the direction of a foreign power (so far as we know), asking sources to divulge, so not B&E to get it.
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Oh. I see you've jumped ahead to assume the dirt that the lawyer was delivering was the emails. W/o (yet) evidence to support that.
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We may get there. But thus far, as late as June 20, Steele's sources said the RU info on Hillary was stuff collected over years.
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Who was the Clinton surrogate?
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