Double Vision: Foreigners R' Us!

F.B.I.O.U.'s

"What have you people done with all the credibility I once gave you?"

Julie Kelly: "In 2016, the Clinton campaign and DNC used Perkins Coie, a politically connected and influential law firm, as a pass-through to pay Fusion GPS for opposition research related to Donald Trump. Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in turn hired Christopher Steele, a British operative who once worked for the U.K.’s version of the CIA. Steele is a British citizen, also known as a “foreigner.”

At the same time, Steele was working as an FBI informant for the Obama Justice Department and representing Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Russian President Vladmir Putin, in legal matters before the U.S. government.

The former British spy allegedly leveraged his Russian contacts to help compile a series of opposition research memos, commonly known as the “dossier,” for Fusion. Steele anonymously referred to several Kremlin-linked individuals in the dossier; notes recently disclosed from an Obama State Department official revealed that Steele claimed two of his sources were a former Russian intelligence chief and a Putin aide.

That material was then passed to Perkins Coie, the law firm representing both Hillary Clinton’s political action committee and the DNC, which in turn briefed the Clinton campaign. “I’m proud that we were able to assemble some of the research that has brought [Russian collusion] to light,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in November 2017 after news reports confirmed the provenance of the dossier. “I’m glad that there was research there…I’m glad we’re paying attention to this now.” Mook bragged about how he first brought attention to attempted Russian meddling in July 2016 (coincidentally, the same month that Jim Comey’s FBI opened up a counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign for suspected collusion) and later leveraged that propaganda to launch the special counsel investigation.

So Mook, the head of the Clinton campaign, boasted about accepting dirt on Donald Trump furnished by a paid foreigner operative (Steele) and possibly sourced by Kremlin-linked associates—and no one cared. News outlets also did not care; both Yahoo News and Mother Jones published stories based on the dossier before the presidential election. Reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn personally met with both Simpson and Steele, a foreigner, to learn more about his Russian-based research. Neither contacted the FBI with the alarming news that a British national was peddling Russian-sourced allegations in an effort to plant negative stories about the Donald Trump before Election Day.

Steele also reportedly met with reporters and editors at the Washington Post, New York Times, The New Yorker, and CNN to discuss the dossier, according to Simpson’s Senate testimony. No one notified the FBI."...….

Stilton's Place: Eastern Double Standard Time:

Obama and former Italian PM Renzi met  yestoday to get their stories straight-ahead of President Trump's meeting with current PM Salvini today.

 Say–did Obama notify the FBI about the dirt the Italians gave him? Word has it Obama is hiding overseas from a surprise subpoena.

Who was Donald Trump supposed to call at the FBI, anyway? Comey? McCabe? They were trying to take him out. Strzok and Page? They’re out in the parking lot smashing Hillary’s laptops with a hammer.

Maybe Mr. Trump could have called the DOJ–except Loretta Lynch is busy personally writing Ms Veselnitskya’s special parole visa. Andrew Weissman at Fraud Division could take his call–except he’s in a meeting with Bruce Ohr getting a counter-intelligence briefing for some reason.

And why does President Trump need to call the FBI anyway when they’re already wiretapping him?

Journalists say if a foreigner gave Trump a hard drive of Hillary taking Uranium One bribes, he needed to turn over all copies to Comey or McCabe at once so they could BleachBit it in the executive washroom. Like with a cloth. 

Or maybe give it all to Dir. Mueller, who signed off on the crooked deal in the first place.

Or even to Chris Wray, who doesn’t answer the TIPSLine when kids are being shot at Stoneman-Douglas, who thinks bias training cures sedition and who is currently hiding evidence from the American people about their FBI.

No wonder they want to make President Trump get the FBI’s permission–the same FBI that was criminally wiretapping him.

How ’bout instead, we force journalists to contact the FBI first when they are talking to foreigners like Christopher Steele who want to influence our elections? Let us know that works out for you, Snuffy.

"Remember, reporters; ask us for permission first before talking to foreigners!"