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Russiagate or a wild goose chase?

No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists

Trump’s own Russian ties were the subject of intense media coverage of an unverified opposition-research report purportedly prepared by an ex-British spy, who remains in hiding. It seems no enterprising reporter has tried to find him.

In pushing its Manchurian-candidate-Trump narrative, the media fail to mention the much deeper ties of Democratic lobbyists to Russia. Don’t worry, the media seems to say: Even though they are representing Russia, the lobbyists are good upstanding citizens, not like the Trump people. They can be trusted with such delicate matters.

That’s not all: The busy Podesta Group also represented Uranium One, a uranium company acquired by the Russian government which received approval from Hillary Clinton’s State Department to mine for uranium in the U.S. and gave Russia twenty percent control of US uranium. The New York Times reported Uranium One’s chairman, Frank Guistra, made significant donations to the Clinton Foundation, and Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for one speech from a Russian investment bank that has “links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.” Notably, Frank Giustra, the Clinton Foundation’s largest and most controversial donor, does not appear anywhere in Clinton’s “non-private” emails. It is possible that the emails of such key donors were automatically scrubbed to protect the Clinton Foundation.


elections

US influences on foreign elections

"If you want to see what the other guy is up to, see what he says about you".

As of Feb 2018 allegations the "Russians" "hacked" the DNC and influenced the election are still unproven. The influence of the US over other countries elections however is proven.


FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit

The FBI in late December reviewed intercepts of communications between the Russian ambassador to the United States and retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn — national security adviser to then-President-elect Trump — but has not found any evidence of wrongdoing or illicit ties to the Russian government, U.S. officials said.


https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012

CIA orders for the French 2012 Election


https://www.rt.com/uk/413034-russian-gas-sanctions-uk-shutdown

UK bans trade with Russia then has to buy Russian gas when snow hits hard.

"Global warming"


https://www.rt.com/news/413258-biden-italy-russian-meddling

Biden was wrong: Intel agencies find no evidence of ‘Russian meddling’ in Italian polls

One might say "but this is RT of course they say that". Ok, let's assume they're lying, where is the evidence?


Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton

The Democratic Money Behind Russia-gate

Zerohedge ran an article with the title "HuffPo Yanks Article On Russiagate Hysteria By Award Winning Journalist Joe Lauria – So Here It Is" on Nov 17, 2017 so I saved a copy here.


"They're Russians, trust me, would highly paid DNC security consultant like me lie?"

No hard evidence that "the Russians hacked the DNC and stole Clinton's email". So who did?

Beginning in July 2016, eleven minutes after Clinton's email showed up on Wikipedia the DNC announced "they had hard evidence the Russians hacked the DNC causing Clinton to lose the election" (because: germ warfare, funding ISIS) and an investigation followed this conclusion. Wait - how do investigations follow conclusions? Mueller convened a committee to look into this and after 18 months was not able to prove the claim true despite the prior claim of "hard evidence". Like Theresa May's mysterious Russian poison it is a ruse and does not actually exist.

"Two weeks ago, Mueller dropped a multi-part indictment against 13 Russian citizens connected with a so-called troll farm. The indictment alleges the group bought Facebook and Twitter ads, planned small rallies, and otherwise “meddled” in the U.S. election. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made clear there was no allegation in the indictment that any American, including on the Trump campaign, “was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity.”


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536

Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia.

"WASHINGTON — After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee."


‘Tradecraft failings’: CIA’s conclusion that Putin interfered in election to help Trump was flawed
Agency violated standards for analyzing intelligence products

"U.S. intelligence agencies’ far-reaching conclusion that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to specifically help Donald Trump was flawed by “tradecraft failings,” says a House report.

The conclusion was written by the CIA then under the direction of Obama loyalist John O. Brennan.

The report said the CIA’s Putin-Trump analysis violated standards for analyzing intelligence products and noted that one guideline is to “be independent of political considerations.”

It said the CIA’s draft section on Mr. Putin’s intentions lacked vigorous internal debate because it was restricted to an “unusually constrained review” by other agencies.

The findings are contained in the Republican majority report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigation into 2016 Russian election meddling."


The Russians are trolling! The Russians are trolling!

If you believe the narrative being pushed on American media in 2018 then Russian social media activists posted so much and such deceptive words that American voted wrong because of it. Nobody has ever been able to produce a single one of these alleged postings and it's difficult to imagine where they ever got this idea from.

Other than the fact the US military is known to have been doing this since 2011.


Something About This Russia Story Stinks
Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious intelligence assessment

"The Post eventually distanced itself from the story, saying it "does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot's findings." This was a very strange thing to say in a statement that isn't an outright retraction. The idea that it's OK to publish an allegation when you yourself are not confident in what your source is saying is a major departure from what was previously thought to be the norm in a paper like the Post.

There have been other excesses. An interview with Julian Assange by an Italian newspaper has been bastardized in Western re-writes, with papers like The Guardian crediting Assange with "praise" of Trump and seemingly flattering comments about Russia that are not supported by the actual text. (The Guardian has now "amended" a number of the passages in the report in question)."


yeltsin

Of geese and ganders....

The US brags about influencing Russian elections in secret.


https://mate.substack.com/p/with-clinton-lawyer-charged-the-russiagate

With Clinton lawyer charged, the Russiagate scam is now indicted

In accusing Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI, Special Counsel John Durham offers new evidence of the fabrications behind the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.

Both Hillary and Jake Sullivan were pretending that they had just learned about this shocking story from Slate when, in fact, it was Hillary's own lawyers and researchers who had spent weeks pushing the story to both the FBI and friendly journalists like Foer. In other words, it was Hillary and her team who had manufactured the hoax, then pretended that — like everyone else — they were just learning about it, and believing it to be true, because a media outlet to which they had fed the false story had just published it."

Unfortunately, within the new normal, facts that interfere with a good narrative disappear.


Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied to Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme to Co-Opt the CIA and FBI to Tar Trump

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a colluder with Russia, according to people familiar with the criminal probe, which they say has broadened into a conspiracy case. Sullivan is facing scrutiny, sources say, over potentially false statements he made about his involvement in the effort, which continued after the election and into 2017. As a senior foreign policy adviser to Clinton, Sullivan spearheaded what was known inside her campaign as a “confidential project” to link Trump to the Kremlin through dubious email-server records provided to the agencies, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Last week, Michael A. Sussmann, a partner in Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements to the FBI about his clients and their motives behind planting the rumor, at the highest levels of the FBI, of a secret Trump-Russia server. After a months-long investigation, the FBI found no merit to the rumor.


NYT Gives Russia-Gate CPR – WSJ Pronounces It Dead

Ray McGovern Posted on October 02, 2021
Special Council John Durham’s indictment of Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann met differing reactions Friday from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Those who may still think it was Russia that "interfered" with the 2016 election owe it to themselves to read the Sussmann indictment/charging document.

Spoiler: It was the very top officials of the Clinton campaign aided by a lawyer crooked as a hound’s hind leg that interfered in 2016. The tricks tried by Sussmann and associates might make even GOP "strategists" like Lee Atwater and Karl Rove blush.

One must recall that back in 2016 the Clinton campaign folks and their well-heeled coterie of attorneys were sure Mrs. Clinton would win. As the Sussmann charging document shows, there was some expectation of high-level posting in the "incoming" Clinton administration and – alas – absolutely no thought of indictment. This goes a long way to explain the brazenness of it all.




dnc: No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/02/18/no-one-mentions-that-the-russian-trail-leads-to-democratic-lobbyists/


flynn: FBI reviewed Flynn’s calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-reviewed-flynns-calls-with-russian-ambassador-but-found-nothing-illicit/2017/01/23/aa83879a-e1ae-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html


france: CIA orders for the French 2012 Election
https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/


gas: UK bans trade with Russia then has to buy Russian gas when snow hits hard.
https://www.rt.com/uk/413034-russian-gas-sanctions-uk-shutdown/


italy: Biden was wrong: Intel agencies find no evidence of ‘Russian meddling’ in Italian polls
https://www.rt.com/news/413258-biden-italy-russian-meddling/


mueller: No hard evidence that "the Russians hacked the DNC and stole Clinton's email". So who did?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/russia-investigation-fbi-what-mueller-has-and-what-hes-missing/


nada: Senate has uncovered no direct evidence of conspiracy between Trump campaign and Russia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536


oops: ‘Tradecraft failings’: CIA’s conclusion that Putin interfered in election to help Trump was flawed Agency violated standards for analyzing intelligence products
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/2/john-brennans-cia-conclusion-flawed-putins-electio/


stinks: Something About This Russia Story Stinks Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious intelligence assessment
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/something-about-this-russia-story-stinks-w458439


2021: With Clinton lawyer charged, the Russiagate scam is now indicted
https://mate.substack.com/p/with-clinton-lawyer-charged-the-russiagate


sullivan-2021: Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied to Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme to Co-Opt the CIA and FBI to Tar Trump
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/23/biden_security_adviser_sullivan_tied_to_16_clinton_plan_to_co-opt_cia_and_fbi_to_tar_trump_795498.html


dead: NYT Gives Russia-Gate CPR – WSJ Pronounces It Dead
https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2021/10/01/nyt-gives-russia-gate-cpr-wsj-pronounces-it-dead/