Panther wrote on Mar 19^th, 2019 at 1:29pm:



Hahaha I don't know whats funnier, that same look of complete confusion Tucker always pulls, or the fact you are taking him seriously.

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Former British spy Christopher Steele confessed that he used an unverified report submitted to a CNN website, where “random individuals” can post information, for his salacious anti-Trump dossier.

Steele made the awkward revelation during a deposition last year in a case involving Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, who claims his companies Webzilla and XBT Holdings were defamed by Steele after the dossier was published by BuzzFeed.

Steele was asked during the deposition how he verified allegations about Gubarev’s companies and whether he found “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla,” according to the newly released transcripts of the deposition.

“We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport,” Steele said................

But CNN iReport, which appears to be no longer active — though archives remain accessible online — states that

it’s a “user-generated site” and warns that “the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked or screened before they post.”

When asked whether the former British spy understood how the website actually worked, he confessed that “I do not have any particular knowledge of that” and noted he didn’t understand at the time that the site has “no connection to any CNN reporters.”

“Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individuals’ assertions on the Internet?” an examiner asked Steele.

He replied: “No, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has [sic] some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site.”

On Friday it was revealed that the late Sen. John McCain gave the dossier to the FBI and to media sources including Buzzfeed.

Former British spy Christopher Steele admitted that he relied on an unverified report on a CNN website for part of the "Trump dossier," which was used as a basis for the FBI's investigation into Trump.

According to deposition transcripts released this week, Steele said last year he used a 2009 report he found on CNN's iReport website and said he wasn't aware that submissions to that site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy.

A web archive from July 29, 2009 shows that CNN described the site in this manner: “iReport.com is a user-generated site. That means the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked, or screened before they post.”

In the dossier, Steele, a Cambridge-educated former MI6 officer, wrote about extensive allegations against Donald Trump, associates of his campaign, various Russians and other foreign nationals, and a variety of companies — including one called Webzilla. Those allegations would become part of an FBI investigation and would be used to apply for warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

During his deposition, Steele was pressed on the methods he used to verify allegations made about Webzilla, which was thought to be used by Russia to hack into Democratic emails.

When asked if he discovered “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla” during the verification process, Steele replied: “We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport.”

"I do not have any particular knowledge of that," Steele said when asked what was his understanding of how the iReport website worked.

When asked if he understood that content on the site was not generated by CNN reporters, he said, "I do not." He was then asked: “Do you understand that they have no connection to any CNN reporters?” Steele replied, “I do not.”

He was pressed on this further: “Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individuals’ assertions on the Internet?” Steele replied: “No, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site."

When asked about his methodology for searching for this information, Steele described it as “what we could call an open source search,” which he defined as “where you go into the Internet and you access material that is available on the Internet that is of relevance or reference to the issue at hand or the person under consideration.”

Steele said his dossier contained "raw intelligence" that he admitted could contain untrue or even "deliberately false information."

Steele was hired by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016. Fusion GPS was receiving funding at the time from the Clinton campaign and the DNC through the Perkins Coie law firm.

The series of memos that Steele would eventually compile became known as the “Trump Dossier.”

The dossier was used in FISA applications to surveil Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

When asked whether he warned Fusion GPS that the information in the dossier might be “Russian disinformation,” Steele admitted that “a general understanding existed between us and Fusion … that all material contained this risk.”

Steele also described his interactions with Sen. John McCain's aide, David Kramer, whose own deposition showed that he provided BuzzFeed with a copy of the dossier and had spoken with more than a dozen journalists about it.

“I provided copies of the December memo to Fusion GPS for onward passage to David Kramer at the request of Sen. John McCain," Steele said. "Sen. McCain nominated him as the intermediary. I did not choose him as the intermediary.”

When asked if he told Kramer that he couldn't "vouch for everything that was produced in the memos," Steele replied, "Yes, with an emphasis on 'everything.'"

When asked why he believed it was so important to provide the dossier to Sen. McCain, Steele said: “Because I judged it had national security implications for the United States and the West as a whole.”

You're using Fox News. Not sure you can be banging on about factual/

The author of the “dossier” of unverified claims about President Trump that was used by the Obama administration as evidence before a secret Washington court to obtain permission to spy on the Trump 2016 campaign was based largely on … gossip.

That’s according to its author.

The Washington Examiner reported Christopher Steele, an ex-British spy who was hired to write the unverified claims, admitted using what amounted to gossip on a CNN website as a source.

Steele revealed, in a deposition only now being reported, that he used material from CNN’s iReport website for his allegations, which later were adopted by the Obama administration.

The document is said to have played a major role in triggering the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller of alleged collusion with Russia.

The Examiner noted, “According to deposition transcripts released this week, Steele said last year he used a 2009 report he found on CNN’s iReport website and said he wasn’t aware that submissions to that site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy.”

That means the statements he used as evidence easily could fall into the same category as online claims that Elvis still is alive, that the government carried out the 9/11 attacks and the world is ending in 12 years.

CNN explained iReport.com is a user-generated site, meaning “the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked, or screened before they post.”

But Steele jumped on the claims and regurgitated them as “facts.”

“In the dossier, Steele, a Cambridge-educated former MI6 officer, wrote about extensive allegations against Donald Trump, associates of his campaign, various Russians and other foreign nationals, and a variety of companies — including one called Webzilla. Those allegations would become part of an FBI investigation and would be used to apply for warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” the report said.

Steele said during his deposition he didn’t know how iReport worked.

He admitted he didn’t know the statements on the site were not generated by CNN reporters.

“Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individuals’ assertions on the internet?” he was asked.

He said that for his research he used “open source” material.

Steele’ was overseen by Fusion GPS, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC to compile claims about then-candidate Trump.

The Department of Justice under Obama then submitted the material to a court as if it were fact.

Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh said: “It confirms everything we thought about this bogus thing from the beginning. … This stupid investigation is still ongoing. … If I were Trump, I would have lost my mind by now.”

The London Daily Mail said Steele’s admission was “embarrassing.”

His statement came in a court case brought by Russian entrepreneur Aleksei Gubarev. The case took place last year but papers have just been unsealed from it.

GPS Fusion chief Glenn Simpson at one point invoked his Fifth Amendment right  not to testify to the House Judiciary Committee on the subject.

WND also reported leftist billionaire George Soros indirectly funded the opposition research firm behind the infamous Steele dossier.

The funding of Fusion GPS for the Russia project was provided partly through a grant by Soros to the nonprofit Democracy Integrity Project, Soros aide Michael Vachon told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.

The nonprofit organization paid Fusion GPS as a contractor to continue a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

Mortdooley wrote on Mar 18^th, 2019 at 8:04pm:



You do know your Monopoly money doesn't count. But let's say you did work and pay it's only going to get worse thank to your F A T Orange butt-buddy.

Stay stupid, morty torty

Marla wrote on Mar 19^th, 2019 at 9:30am:



We all deal in monopoly money, our government script is only worth what the government says it is! Without last years tax cuts I would have payed at least three thousand more.

When you stop drinking the liberal cool-aid you see how different your life can be. Someone here said they minored in economics but seems to have no clue how to manage money. There must be a conflict between their training and their financial success. The Debtor is the slave of the Lender.

Now it makes sense why President Trump would most probably like to see Mueller's Report made Public.....why not......the Entire Russian Collusion Witch Hunt was based on the now 'Debunked Dossier', financed by SHillary Clinton & the DNC Mob to discredit the legally elected President of the United States of America.