Barr's DOJ Finds Christopher Steele "credible"

[H_Arendt]

@DougBH

No, Steele and “Steele’s defenders” need to prove their allegations, not the other way around.
Obviously Mueller didn’t find these allegations supported…as in insufficient evidence of cooperation. And, specifically, remember the big deal about Cohen being in Prague to work with the hackers? Where is the indictment against Cohen for perjury in denying that he was ever in Prague? Plus, Cohen spilled his guts to Mueller and wound up turning on Trump…he would have been praised to the hills if he had told Mueller he had been in Prague working with the hackers. Mueller bought that he was not.

Obviously you have not read a page of the Mueller Report. Cohen is in jail. Prosecutors routinely trim charges to get the fastest route to convicting a felon. Why do you think Epstein was only indicted on three counts in New York rather than more than that. You comments on Mueller strategy are pure speculation.

Steele made a series of allegations that were well supported by Mueller. I’ll repeat my request – where did Mueller disconfirm Steele?

And at the level of a court approving a wiretap, that is done on suspicion so there’s no need to insist on a standard of proof.

[WuWei]

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@Weedhopper

That’s not how it works for the fisa court.

5 Things The FBI Never Told The FISA Court About The Trump Dossier

Partisan puff piece. First point has been thoroughly debunked. I stopped reading after that. Waste of time.

And the politico article is not? Come on man.

[WuWei]

@H_Arendt

Cohen is in jail.

For what?

[Plasmaball]

Just all the more reason to dismiss people who think steele is a fraud…

[WuWei]

@Plasmaball

Just all the more reason to dismiss people who think steele is a fraud…

Steele is a huge fraud.

[DougBH]

Obviously you have no idea whatsoever I have read as proven by your mistatements. Cohen claimed to the end, even after he showed he despised Trump, that he had never been to Prague and Mueller never contradicted it.
Can you prove he was in Prague?
But we are going right back to Dems refusal to accept that the Mueller report just wasn’t what they hoped.

[peek-a-boo]

I’m now familiar with the matter as well, as is every forum member participating in this thread. And we can’t agree on anything.

What is so special about those unnamed people who are familiar with the matter? We know nothing about them.

[tnt]

That article does nothing to support your claim.

[peek-a-boo]

Rather than respond to all of the responses to my posts, I figured I would come back here and provide a single response.

The Reuters report seems to have the best available information about the people familiar with the matter. From the article:

"Three attorneys from the Inspector General’s office of the U.S. Department of Justice met in person in early June with dossier author Christopher Steele in Britain, said two sources with direct knowledge of the lawyers’ travels."

So there you have it. The two people familiar with the matter had direct knowledge of the lawyers’ travels.

Essentially the two sources knew the lawyers met with Steele, and are thus familiar with the matter. Very credible.

Trump 'dossier' author grilled by Justice Department watchdogs: sources

[conan]

According to my source they’re trying to get out ahead of the story.

[Eclipze]

Last month my director came back from a quarterly executive conference and she relayed the information to me, which I, in turn relayed said information on to my scrum team. Did I perpetuate fake news to my developers and analysts? I didn’t attend the executive conference, but had direct knowledge of her travel plans.

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@Eclipze

Last month my director came back from a quarterly executive conference and she relayed the information to me, which I, in turn relayed said information on to my scrum team. Did I perpetuate fake news to my developers and analysts? I didn’t attend the executive conference, but had direct knowledge of her travel plans.

Of course you were. Remember Ronald Reagan’s “trust but verify.” Did you verify. You probably made the same mistake Elizabeth Warren made as a little girl in Oklahoma. Her grandmother told her stories of the Native Americans in the family and little Elizabeth failed to get independent verification of her grandmother’s charming stories. Look how much trouble that has created for Senator Warren. You could end up in a similar world of hurt!

[Eclipze]

That sucks. We are in the middle of a sprint and our current user stories are a direct result of the direction propagated to me and my team. Ugh, I hate fake news.

[WuWei]

To paraphrase a pretty good mod:

■■■■ Christopher Steele.

I love all the catterwailing about conspiracy with Russians and complete acceptance of paid conspiracy with Russians through an englishman.

The going on about meeting for an offer of dirt opposed to paying, through a bag man, to dig up dirt (invent) on an opponent.

You’re (collective) not better.

[dubarry20833]

Right, you put your credibility to the Seth Rich story.

[peek-a-boo]

Actually I never participated in any Seth Rich thread.

[peek-a-boo]

So how exactly would the knowledge of the lawyers’ travel plans qualify the 2 sources to discuss what was said behind closed doors?

[peek-a-boo]

There is no disputing the interview took place. What is in dispute is the story claiming DOJ lawyers found Steele to be credible, thus somehow lending credibility to the Dossier.

[Jezcoe]

@DougBH

No, Steele and “Steele’s defenders” need to prove their allegations, not the other way around.
Obviously Mueller didn’t find these allegations supported…as in insufficient evidence of cooperation. And, specifically, remember the big deal about Cohen being in Prague to work with the hackers? Where is the indictment against Cohen for perjury in denying that he was ever in Prague? Plus, Cohen spilled his guts to Mueller and wound up turning on Trump…he would have been praised to the hills if he had told Mueller he had been in Prague working with the hackers. Mueller bought that he was not.

What does Cohen have to do with a warrant against Carter Page?

[gooddad409]

@sikofit

@gooddad409

They don’t care. It could be 2 made up folks but if they are said to critisize Trump that’s good enough!

If it was made up wouldn’t someone within the DOJ call it out as such?

Trump calls out people a lot. As for the DOJ the left stream media has done this crap so much they probably don’t feel compelled to respond to everything any more.