Media and CIA Fall For "Golden Shower" Hoax

[es7129]

This 'scandal' doesn't prove Trump has committed a crime. It's alleged that Russian has footage of Trump with prostitutes. There's not even evidence that they've attempted to leverage Trump with said footage.

[Lenno]

Fake Media

[TonyM]

Explosive memos suggest that a Trump-Russia quid pro quo was at the heart of the GOP's dramatic shift on Ukraine


The dossier's claim about a Ukraine-WikiLeaks quid pro quo
alleges that Trump would refrain from speaking forcefully, if at
all, about Russia's incursion into eastern Ukraine in 2014. In
return, Russia would provide WikiLeaks the documents it stole
from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).


http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...aks-dnc-2017-1

[jimmyb]

Wonder what the meaning of Unverified is..

[TonyM]

Trump aides deny summit with Putin planned

Two top aides to President-elect Donald Trump denied a published report on Saturday that he is planning to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin weeks after taking office.

The Sunday Times of London reported that Trump had told British officials that such a summit was being planned, possibly to be staged in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.

"The story is a fantasy," one Trump aide told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another said the report was not true.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has spoken of seeking warmer relations with Russia.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...idUSKBN14Z041?

[lonewolfinoregon]

Just as the commentariat began to shudder at the implications of this
bombshell, Buzzfeed released the actual dossier, 35 pages crammed with
allegations of grave wrongdoing, including espionage by Trump surrogates
against fellow Americans. This was a rather standard example of raw
human intelligence reporting, a mishmash of claims, some of them
obviously untrue. But the essence of its case—that Trump has been
playing footsie with Vladimir Putin for years and knowingly accepted his
secret help to win the White House—may well turn out to be true.

The media, unaccustomed to seeing raw HUMINT reports, acted aghast
at the salacious nature of some of the claims in the dossier: Trumpian
sex romps caught on camera by Russian spies, our new commander-in-chief
paying prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed where President Obama had
slept. Whether those particular claims are true or not—and they ought to
be looked at with immense skepticism and even the PEOTUS himself said
today that his infamy as a germophobe, which way predates these accusations,
ought to raise concerns about some of these tales—there’s no doubt that
Putin’s Federal Security Service, the all-seeing FSB, keeps close tabs
on foreign VIP’s when they’re on their turf. If Trump was unwise enough
to engage in randy behavior in Russia, the FSB unquestionably has it on
video. ***

In truth, the provenance of the 35-page dossier is well known in proper channels.
Some of its assertions have beenmade by other NATO intelligence agencies,
privately. Some of its claims are false, some are true, and some may
linger between truth and fiction indefinitely. What’s important here is
that the IC leadership decided to brief a small circle of the most
senior American officials on that dossier’s findings. They don’t do
that, ever—treating raw private intelligence reports by foreigners as
worthy of briefing to “the top”—unless they can corroborate significant
portions of it.

http://observer.com/2017/01/donald-t...michael-cohen/

Again FAKE NEWS and NO EVIDENCE!!!

They claimed the Declassified report "WOULD LAY OUT ALL THE EVIDENCE!!"

YET, ALL SPECULATION AND ASSESSMENT!!!

Again NO EVIDENCE!!

I got a feeling after Trump swearing in another INVESTIGATION into INTELLIGENCE GATHERING will be launched...

[TonyM]

Kellyanne Conway: Details of Russia investigation should be kept secret ‘to protect the public’ --

Appearing on Fox & Friends, Conway was asked by co-host Clayton
Morris about Trump’s planned meeting with embattled FBI Director James
Comey, only to have Conway lash out at leaks coming from U.S.
intelligence agencies.

“I’m always disappointed how public and sometimes political some of
these figures can seem to be,” she responded. “I’m very concerned, very
concerned. You realize it is the Trump team, only us at this time, that
is not divulging what occurred in a classified briefing.”

“Ladies and gentlemen,” she continued with her voice rising. “It’s
called a classified briefing for a reason. You had the vice president of
the United States making a comment about it the other day. You have
intelligence officials confirming or denying. This classified
information, it’s top secret. Why is it top secret? It’s not top secret
to keep it from the public, but to protect the public.”

http://ow.ly/5REr3081dSh

[TonyM]

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British newspaper. Today under a Trump headline: "Britain fears leak of its secrets to Moscow"

[TonyM]

Christopher Steele, Ex-British Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump

A former British intelligence officer now working for a private
security-and-investigations firm produced the dossier of unverified
allegations about President-elect Donald Trump’s activities and
connections in Russia, people familiar with the matter say.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/christop...ump-1484162553

[Rusty34]

One out of two is a start...