Sunday, October 8, 2017

Update on the Steele Memos and Other Thoughts

The Christopher Steele memos are not going away.

Nine months after its first appearance, the set of intelligence reports known as the Steele dossier, one of the most explosive documents in modern political history, is still hanging over Washington, casting a shadow over the Trump administration that has only grown darker as time has gone by.
It was reported this week that the document’s author, former British intelligence official, Christopher Steele, has been interviewed by investigators working for the special counsel on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The Senate and House intelligence committees are, meanwhile, asking to see Steele to make up their own mind about his findings. The ranking Democrat on the House committee, Adam Schiff, said that the dossier was “a very important and useful guide to help us figure out what we need to look into”.
The fact that Steele’s reports are being taken seriously after lengthy scrutiny by federal and congressional investigators has far-reaching implications.
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The Steele dossier said one of the aims of the Russian influence campaign was to peel off voters who had supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries and nudge them towards Trump.
Evidence has since emerged that Russians and eastern Europeans posing as Americans targeted Sanders supporters with divisive and anti-Clinton messages in the summer of 2016, after the primaries were over.
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Regarding that last sentence, what are we to make of this? It was posted yesterday by an eastern European who poses as an American, refuses to disclose nationality and location to "friends" on Facebook, and boasted privately to me about "reach." Who uses that word? And why? Especially when you are talking American politics to Americans!
Political survey: Q1: Who is our champion for 2020? Q2: WHY HILLARY?... I do not want to influence you, but ...
Of course American friends ate this up despite HRC having stated quite publicly several times that she has run her last campaign and is moving forward on a new footing. As to that "I do not want to influence you..." portion, I refer you to George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant.

Absolutely! Yes you do! This is bald-faced influence peddling.

Why would a foreigner purportedly worshipful of Hillary contradict Hillary's own words regularly with the ubiquitous #HRC2020 hashtag?
'Though this be madness yet there is method in it'.
Yes indeedy!

To paraphrase Mammy in "Gone With the Wind," trolls of this ilk are sitting there waiting to pounce just like a tiger when the time is right.

At Stanford, Hillary said,
"Make no mistake this isn't just about what happened in 2016, it's about what is happening right now"
Yep! And the trolls come in all manner of guises - but they are disguises. Be wary!

She has warned us in the past. Too many ignored and disregarded her, and look where we are.  


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