With establishment Democrats still clinging to Russiagate as if it were an article of religious faith, the HuffPo retracted the article. election.”Īfter the article appeared in Consortium News, Lauria published the piece on the HuffPo, which he had been contributing to since 2006. 6 “assessment” claiming that Russia interfered in the U.S.
intelligence community has struggled to corroborate Steele’s allegations, but those suspicions still colored the thinking of President Obama’s intelligence chiefs who, according to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, “hand-picked” the analysts who produced the Jan. Within a day, CrowdStrike blamed Russia on dubious evidence.Īnd, it has now been disclosed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid for opposition research memos written by former British MI6 intelligence agent Christopher Steele using hearsay accusations from anonymous Russian sources to claim that the Russian government was blackmailing and bribing Donald Trump in a scheme that presupposed that Russian President Vladimir Putin foresaw Trump’s presidency years ago when no one else did. We have long known that the DNC did not allow the FBI to examine its computer server for clues about who may have hacked it – or even if it was hacked – and instead turned to CrowdStrike, a private company co-founded by a virulently anti-Putin Russian. Think about that for a minute.įormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“The two sources that originated the allegations claiming that Russia meddled in the 2016 election - without providing convincing evidence - were both paid for by the Democratic National Committee, and in one instance also by the Clinton campaign: the Steele dossier and the CrowdStrike analysis of the DNC servers. 29, 2017, entitled “The Democratic Money Behind Russia-gate.” It began: sanctions being imposed on Russia, spiking tensions between the nuclear-armed powers.ĬN‘s editor, Joe Lauria, at the time a writer for Consortium News, spelled out as early as October 2017 - just 10 months into the Trump regime - that the Democrats were behind both the phony dossier and the private firm CrowdStrike’s examination of Democratic National Committee servers, which the party kept away from the FBI. Robert Parry, the late founder of this website, was in the forefront of questioning and debunking the bogus story that was widely and profoundly believed, to the point of U.S. The key phrase is “turned out to be”, as the Times has belatedly come to understand that the Steele Dossier, which became the focal point of manic Democratic-slanted reporting, was nothing more than opposition research, a mix of some fact and mostly fiction, which both parties routinely serve up in campaigns to sling mud at their opponents.īut the Steele Dossier was fervently believed by Democratic partisans, at times fanatically, as if it were solid intelligence, in the face of the facts. Trump and Russia for what turned out to be Democratic-funded opposition research, according to people familiar with the matter.” “Federal authorities on Thursday arrested an analyst who in 2016 gathered leads about possible links between Donald J. Igor Danchenko, the main source for the phony Clinton campaign, opposition research dressed up as an intelligence report that for a time duped the FBI and Democratic mainstream media for several years, has been arrested in the ongoing investigation into the deceptive origins of Russiagate by Special Counsel John Durahm, The New York Times reported Thursday.
With the arrest of the principal source of the bogus dossier, The New York Times belatedly admits what the dossier was, a fact reported in Consortium News four years ago.