8/12/2023 0 Comments Comey tweet russian dossier trueDid Russia manipulate Steele with fabricated Kremlin gossip designed to discredit Trump and then use its “foreign agent,” Fusion, to disseminate the results? If so, we have a real RussiaGate scandal, only this time it is directed against Trump. Fusion has refused bi-partisan Senate requests for information concerning “violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act by working on behalf of Russian principals…” Steele’s sources have also come under challenge. Steele’s research was commissioned by Fusion GPS, a DC opposition research firm. Meanwhile, the dossier’s purported author, ex M15 agent Christopher Steele, is allegedly in hiding and is conveniently unavailable for questions. Perhaps Comey does not want to respond to the Washington Post’s claim that the FBI offered to pay Steele to continue his work. Here is the exchange:īURR: In the public domain is this question of the “Steele dossier,” a document that has been around for over a year…At the time of your departure from the FBI, was the FBI able to confirm any criminal allegations contained in the Steele document?ĬOMEY: I don't think that's a question I can answer in an open setting because it goes into the details of the investigation (my italics).Ĭomey’s reluctance was earlier on display when he refused to answer Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) question on the Steele dossier. The Steele dossier accuses Trump of sexual misdeeds in Russia, of incredible billion dollar bribes offered by Putin’s right-hand man to a casual Trump hanger-on, and Trump paying off hackers through his lawyer (who was never in the city where these misdeeds purportedly took place). Third, by referring the Steele “Golden Shower” dossier to closed session, Comey confirmed that the FBI was using bizarre opposition-research gossip of unknown provenance in its investigation. Comey refused to openly disclose his investigation into the Steele dossier Was the FBI’s claim of “high confidence” that Russia hacked the DNC based on Comey’s “high confidence” in private “high-class” hirelings with an agenda? Or was Comey again afraid to cross a Clinton campaign anxious to sell Russian state interference to voters?ģ. Crowdstrike cited the use of similar hacking methods by Russian military intelligence in Ukraine, a conclusion disputed by the Voice of America and the Ukrainian military. ThreatConnect used public IP addresses, as if Russian intelligence wants to leave an unmistakable trial. The proof advanced by the DNC’s private hires of a Russian intrusion are less than convincing. Many are criminal spammers and blackmailers who do contract work, while holding officer ranks in Russian intelligence. Identifying a cyber attacker is a difficult business, especially Russian state agents. The DNC-hired consultants gave the DNC the result it wanted: Divert attention from the contents of the hacked DNC materials to the Russian state’s purported attack on the American electoral process. These “high class” companies (to use Comey’s words) expeditiously concluded that the hackers were agents of the Russian state. Instead, it hired private cyber firms, Crowdstrike and Threat Connect. Note that the DNC made no request for FBI assistance, giving the cyber intruders seven months free access. We got relevant forensic information from a private party, a high-class entity (my italics) that had done the work, but we didn't get direct access. Here is the exchange with Senator Burr (R-North Carolina):īURR: And the FBI in this case…ever have access to the actual hardware that was hacked, or did you have to rely on a third party (my italics) to provide you the data that that they had collected?ĬOMEY: In the case of the DNC…we did not have access (my italics) to the devices themselves. Second, Comey admitted that the FBI accepted the conclusions of private consulting companies, hired by the Democratic National Committee, that Russian state agents hacked the DNC. FBI accepted, but did not independently verify, DNC's conclusion that Russian agents had hacked the DNC
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