George Washington legal scholar Jonathan Turley is doing his best to broadcast the “willful blindness” of the media about the Russia-Trump collusion story. It was a farce from the beginning. Still, the media unabashedly ignores the story.
Now we have new information about the fraudulent Christopher Steele dossier. It damaged the presidency for four years.
The new information is about the primary “source” of Steele’s dossier, Igor Danchenko. He was “not a well-connected current or former Russian official, but a non-Russian-based contract employee of Steele’s firm” who lives in the United States.
As Professor Turley writes, Steele not only misrepresented third-hand rumors as hard intelligence but allegedly misrepresented the source of that information in the dossier. The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for the dossier.
Nothing suspicious there!
Danchenko didn’t support the most explosive allegations in the dossier and he knows a lot less about the Kremlin than Steele indicated. He’s a former [far-left] Brookings Institute employee and once wrote a paper with Fiona Hill.
It was a set up from day one. The fact that the key characters in this farce all hate Donald Trump should have been a dead giveaway.
Professor Turley points to a specific incidence of media malpractice by George Stephanopoulos. George is a close ally of the Clintons and served as Bill Clinton’s campaign manager.
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The Professor also points to Rep. Swalwell’s absurd lies.
The media will not admit to the falsity of the collusion leaks because they want to keep the lies going. They helped invent and direct the lies in the first place.
READ THE OP-ED PROFESSOR TURLEY LINKS TO IN THE TWEETS
Virtually none of these journalists or experts have acknowledged that the collusion leaks were proven false. But in Washington, success often depends not on what you see but what you can unsee.https://t.co/zXk3tOKvce
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 27, 2020
…In the meantime, new information was just released showing that the primary “source” of Steele’s dossier was “not a well-connected current or former Russian official, but a non-Russian-based contract employee of Steele’s firm.” …
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 27, 2020
…So Steele not only misrepresented third-hand rumors as hard intelligence but allegedly misrepresented the source of that information in the dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 27, 2020
…Swalwell now insists that it was always a good thing if the Trump campaign was targeted or subjected to intelligence gathering. Indeed, he wants it to happen again if a campaign statement is deemed an invitation to a foreign power by an Administration of the opposing party.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 26, 2020
Notably, on the panel, Stephanopoulos interviewed Christie who was in the 2016 meeting. Yet, he never asked Christie about the FBI using the campaign briefing for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. It did not merit a single question.https://t.co/wrWq1Aubj5
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 26, 2020
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