Here's the Jedi mind trick. Republicans fund oppo research by Fusian GPS in 9/15. @brithume suggests Steele joined the same firm in June 2016 but didn't use *anything* that was already collected over 9 mos. He started completely from scratch and had a full report in 1 mo.
https://twitter.com/brithume/status/944701727382519808 …
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I don't understand McCarthy's article at all, it's a rambling mess. And he's wrong that you have to allege a crime in a FISA affidavit.
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I think he's likely right that doj evaluated the dossier based off Steele's past work and not on merits of dossier itself. But he way overstates import of that, especially wrt FISA.
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DOSSIER had nothing to do with getting FISA warrant and I don't know why people keep pushing this. Robert Litt testifies Dossier had nothing to do with Investigation into Russiahttp://www.businessinsider.com/robert-litt-says-dossier-played-no-role-in-intel-community-russia-assessment-2017-10 …
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No. That's not actually what Litt said.
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What did he say then? I saw him in a live interview reiterate this. You just can't say he didn't say this without proof.
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I can say it bc what he's referring to is the Intel Community Assessment, which is not the FISA order.
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In his interview he specifically Said the FISA order.
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Huh. No. In fact elsewhere clapper has said he didn't know everything abt FBI interview. You're just confused.
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Any known cases of a criminal charge being tossed out by a judge because a FISA warrant was shown to have been issued due to erroneous information?
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Lolol. No. Never happens.
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Information from FISAs (at least ones relating to foreign intelligence services) are rarely used in criminal cases.
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Why Snowden didn't accept her marriage proposal I'll never know
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It's interesting to read your take on the evidence. All the public evidence you outlined for collusion is linked to Simpson. The Russian lawyer met with him before the meeting etc. I've always viewed the meeting as a buttress to the dossier for FISA. ERGO not included in dossier
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Veselnitskaya denies Simpson was there. And none of the rest is tied to it.
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I didn't say he was there. She met with Simpson before and after the meeting. The documents she gave Trump Jr were from Simpson. Rinat worked with Fusion.
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Again, Veselnitskaya contests precisely that.
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This is what kills me. She was in a Manhattan court that morning with Simpson. She can deny it all she wants. Why would we take her word? She handed documents to Trump Jr provided to her by Simpson.
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1) Only Fox has reported that. In your experience has Fox been reliable on this issue? 2) Actually, there's abundant reason to believe that, too, is a cover story. But by all means double down on it. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/12/14/scott-balbers-sixth-attempt-to-craft-the-june-9-meeting-story/ …
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Wow. Even if you believe there are no court documents that will prove it, she still passed on documents provided to her by Simpson. Maybe you should consider that Simpson set it up to further his Russian collusion project.
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