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Fusion GPS pens NY Times Op Ed

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The Republicans' Fake Investigations

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html

Founders of Fusion GPS pen and op-ed in the NY Times. They feel that the Republican Congress is leaking cherry picked information from their testimony while refusing to release the full transcript which they believe shows that the 24/7 hoopla over the Steele Dossier is unfounded...and that Republicans know that.

This is par for the course when it comes to the Republican Congressional investigations though. Their actions are more about creating material for Fox News than actually doing their job.
 
iliveonramen said:
The Republicans' Fake Investigations

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html

Founders of Fusion GPS pen and op-ed in the NY Times. They feel that the Republican Congress is leaking cherry picked information from their testimony while refusing to release the full transcript which they believe shows that the 24/7 hoopla over the Steele Dossier is unfounded...and that Republicans know that.

This is par for the course when it comes to the Republican Congressional investigations though. Their actions are more about creating material for Fox News than actually doing their job.
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So the NY Times let democrat opposition research give their surely skewed version of events without any criticism? You believe them at face value 100%?
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
So the NY Times let democrat opposition research give their surely skewed version of events without any criticism? You believe them at face value 100%?
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Then tell us why Grassely won't release the transcript of their testimony as he promised ? It's been over 6 months now.
 
iliveonramen said:
The Republicans' Fake Investigations

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html

Founders of Fusion GPS pen and op-ed in the NY Times. They feel that the Republican Congress is leaking cherry picked information from their testimony while refusing to release the full transcript which they believe shows that the 24/7 hoopla over the Steele Dossier is unfounded...and that Republicans know that.

This is par for the course when it comes to the Republican Congressional investigations though. Their actions are more about creating material for Fox News than actually doing their job.
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Interesting read. Thanks for posting it.

I agree with them - Congress should release the entirety of their testimony so we can all read it and judge.
 
Sounds to me like Fusion is trying to tap-dance their way out of the line of fire.

I think I'll just wait to hear what Nunes has to say when/if the FBI gives him, today, what he has demanded.
 
Mycroft said:
Sounds to me like Fusion is trying to tap-dance their way out of the line of fire.

I think I'll just wait to hear what Nunes has to say when/if the FBI gives him, today, what he has demanded.
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More like Grassely attempting to keep 45's narrative alive.
 
iliveonramen said:
The Republicans' Fake Investigations

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html

Founders of Fusion GPS pen and op-ed in the NY Times. They feel that the Republican Congress is leaking cherry picked information from their testimony while refusing to release the full transcript which they believe shows that the 24/7 hoopla over the Steele Dossier is unfounded...and that Republicans know that.

This is par for the course when it comes to the Republican Congressional investigations though. Their actions are more about creating material for Fox News than actually doing their job.
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Considering that Fusion connived with Steele to gather and publish the debunked dossier details, it appears that Fusion is now sad and crying in its milk.

Too bad. They should have turned Hillary's campaign away when they were approached to produce the bogus dossier. Now, they're getting their feet held to the fire and they're whining about it.

An old saying is apropos here -- lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Fusion is tainted with fleas.
 
Mycroft said:
Sounds to me like Fusion is trying to tap-dance their way out of the line of fire.

I think I'll just wait to hear what Nunes has to say when/if the FBI gives him, today, what he has demanded.
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yeah he is not biased. But from the dossier at least we know Donald Gump might be able to pour piss out of a boot. :lamo It is the deep state against us...the Democrats, and the establishment Republicans want Gump out so they are conspiring against him. Wow it amazes me with the rhetoric that is pulled out of the Conservative media's arse. What is more amazing is the gumpers that believe it. They swallow it Bubba Gump and all. But I do like the progress: Dems and Repubs working together :lamo
 
HowardBThiname said:
Considering that Fusion connived with Steele to gather and publish the debunked dossier details, it appears that Fusion is now sad and crying in its milk.

Too bad. They should have turned Hillary's campaign away when they were approached to produce the bogus dossier. Now, they're getting their feet held to the fire and they're whining about it.

An old saying is apropos here -- lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Fusion is tainted with fleas.
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Not understanding the hoopla over Fusion. They were hired to do a job. They did the job.
The issue on the dossier should be over how it was used (unless the claim is that the dossier was deliberatelely stocked with falsehoods).
 
Fraggle Rock said:
Could it be they are from another country.....ya might want to look that up.
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No, you might want to look that up...

Fusion GPS is a commercial research and strategic intelligence firm based in Washington, D.C. The company conducts open-source investigations and provides research and strategic advice for businesses, law firms and investors, as well as for political inquiries, such as opposition research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_GPS
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Fraggle Rock said:
yeah he is not biased. But from the dossier at least we know Donald Gump might be able to pour piss out of a boot. :lamo It is the deep state against us...the Democrats, and the establishment Republicans want Gump out so they are conspiring against him. Wow it amazes me with the rhetoric that is pulled out of the Conservative media's arse. What is more amazing is the gumpers that believe it. They swallow it Bubba Gump and all. But I do like the progress: Dems and Repubs working together :lamo
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Fusion isn't the only one tap-dancing.

Clapper did his ditty yesterday when he denied knowing anything about Papadapa-wassisname.

 
HowardBThiname said:
Considering that Fusion connived with Steele to gather and publish the debunked dossier details, it appears that Fusion is now sad and crying in its milk.

Too bad. They should have turned Hillary's campaign away when they were approached to produce the bogus dossier. Now, they're getting their feet held to the fire and they're whining about it.

An old saying is apropos here -- lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.

Fusion is tainted with fleas.
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So your viewpoint is that you don't believe anything Fusion wrote in the OP ED because if their rebuttal to what Republicans in Congress are saying, then none of that is true.
 
Mycroft said:
Sounds to me like Fusion is trying to tap-dance their way out of the line of fire.

I think I'll just wait to hear what Nunes has to say when/if the FBI gives him, today, what he has demanded.
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What line of fire? They've done noting criminal whatsoever, and have zero obligation to keep playing political games with Republicans that want to make the scandal about them.

This is just GOP tactics to help the president conceal whatever he's been hiding from the world in his banking records.
 
iliveonramen said:
So your viewpoint is that you don't believe anything Fusion wrote in the OP ED because if their rebuttal to what Republicans in Congress are saying, then none of that is true.
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He'll believe anything and everything a Republican says, no matter how at odds with reality it is, and how obvious the tactic is as a distraction.
 
iliveonramen said:
So your viewpoint is that you don't believe anything Fusion wrote in the OP ED because if their rebuttal to what Republicans in Congress are saying, then none of that is true.
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Well, hacks gonna hack. Note the use of “debunked” and “bogus” to describe the dossier. Neither are true.

Trump slurpers live in an alternate reality.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
So the NY Times let democrat opposition research give their surely skewed version of events without any criticism? You believe them at face value 100%?
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As opposed to the Republican Congressional investigation? Sure, I don't think Fusion's version of events are anymore skewed than what Republicans let trickle out of these hearings.

They could release the transcripts. Elijah Cummings is constantly asking for the committee to release transcripts and material because he believes the committee members are saying things that they know to be false.
 
iliveonramen said:
As opposed to the Republican Congressional investigation? Sure, I don't think Fusion's version of events are anymore skewed than what Republicans let trickle out of these hearings.

They could release the transcripts. Elijah Cummings is constantly asking for the committee to release transcripts and material because he believes the committee members are saying things that they know to be false.
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You opened the thread indicating that the opposition research company who hired a guy to collude with russians to get dirt on trump is to be believed.
 
from the excellent NYTimes piece



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/o...usion-gps.html

Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm’s testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It’s time to share what our company told investigators.
We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian meddling. As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.
The intelligence committees have known for months that credible allegations of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia were pouring in from independent sources during the campaign. Yet lawmakers in the thrall of the president continue to wage a cynical campaign to portray us as the unwitting victims of Kremlin disinformation.

We suggested investigators look into the bank records of Deutsche Bank and others that were funding Mr. Trump’s businesses. Congress appears uninterested in that tip: Reportedly, ours are the only bank records the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed.
We told Congress that from Manhattan to Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., and from Toronto to Panama, we found widespread evidence that Mr. Trump and his organization had worked with a wide array of dubious Russians in arrangements that often raised questions about money laundering. Likewise, those deals don’t seem to interest Congress.
We explained how, from our past journalistic work in Europe, we were deeply familiar with the political operative Paul Manafort’s coziness with Moscow and his financial ties to Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
Finally, we debunked the biggest canard being pushed by the president’s men — the notion that we somehow knew of the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower between some Russians and the Trump brain trust. We first learned of that meeting from news reports last year — and the committees know it. They also know that these Russians were unaware of the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele’s work for us and were not sources for his reports.
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What are the Republicans in Congress so afraid of?
 
Mycroft said:
Fusion isn't the only one tap-dancing.

Clapper did his ditty yesterday when he denied knowing anything about Papadapa-wassisname.

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Fusion GPS refusing to turn over banking records, when they've already disclosed the funding for the Steele report = Tap Dancing!

Trump, a US president refusing to disclose his tax returns and banking record, that he states have zero loans from Russia = GOOD!

The conservative mind is like an electrical fire of double standards.:lamo
 
Fraggle Rock said:
Could it be they are from another country.....ya might want to look that up.
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I think it's rich that the company that produced "Donald Trump paid prostitutes to pee on a bed once owned by Obama" is whining about things not being true while they refuse to answer subpeonas.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
You opened the thread indicating that the opposition research company who hired a guy to collude with russians to get dirt on trump is to be believed.
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But lemme guess, you believe Don Jr (the liar) when he says the Trump Tower meeting was nothing, right?
 
reinoe said:
I think it's rich that the company that produced "Donald Trump paid prostitutes to pee on a bed once owned by Obama" is whining about things not being true while they refuse to answer subpeonas.
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The have answered subpoenas.

What I find interesting is that the GOP train-wreck of a Congress hasn't subpoenas anything personal regarding Trump, to determine whether or not some of these claims have merit.

Could it be, POLITICS? Nah.:roll:
 
MovingPictures said:
But lemme guess, you believe Don Jr (the liar) when he says the Trump Tower meeting was nothing, right?
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I believe in evidence and facts. Not what the media spoon feeds you. It's been shown the media is not to be believed so until the case is adjudicated, I don't have an opinion on don jr.


If he's guilty, hang him. but that guilt cant be assessed by a true beleiving mob of useful idiots.
 
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