dave_w wrote:
Cool; our erstwhile British spy is both more trustworthy than the FBI, and cares more about America. I'll stick with "we just don't know", but add a sharp conservative that is thinking along the same lines, and makes a couple of good points.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-is-christopher-steele-1518135346?shareToken=st3c12410d2f964a218abe1361ac889771&reflink=article_email_share What? We know there was still a counter intelligence into the Trump campaign when FBI agents leaked to the NYT was told there was no investigation, shouldn't we not trust those FBI agents? Don't you agree those agents that lied to the NYT were untrustworthy?
Wow, an opinion piece in a Murdock owned newspaper defending Trump? I am shocked, shocked! First, the article says that he has been out of the official spy rings for 7 years. Yes that is true, but he had been being paid by companies to provide intelligence on Russia, so he had been in constant contact with those sources for 7 years (including working the freaking FBI in that time, which obviously was good information if they trusted him so much. Second, even he will admit he did not unravel a conspiracy, he collected a ton of raw intelligence. There is a difference there. Third, nice that they put reliable in qoutes, yea no agenda here, especially when we have every reason to trust the previous information he gave to the FBI, since they continued to trust him. Why would they trust him if he had lied to the before? Fourth, Steele did not refuse to answer questions from congressional investigators, he offered to speak with the Senate Intelligence Committee, he just did not speak with the staff from Nunes that was sent with no warning. That was the staff that turned up with no warning and was done without the knowledge of the HISC, when Nunes said he was going to step away from the investigation. Combine that with Nunes actions and words, why would you talk with him?
Lastly, is the authors idea that Clinton's brilliant idea was to create these lies to smear Trump and then NOT release this information during the campaign? Why hire Steele if you are just making stuff up? Is it because he is a trusted source on Russia, so would add credence to it?