Which careening out-of-control storyline will explode before making it across the finish line?

Were Hillary Clinton Surrogates Behind CNN’s Deceitful iReport Posts?

Whoever would have thought that delivery of the Robert Mueller ‘Special Counsel’ Report would be in a neck-and-neck race to get first to the finish line with how British ex-spy Christopher Steele came up with the filth for his ‘Dirty Dossier’? That’s the last thing Mueller or any of the 100 percent Democrat lawyers who came up empty on their Russians-stole-the-2016 election-by-colluding-with-Trump conspiracy, want you to know.

‘Old CNN website was source of unvetted ‘random’ info used by author of anti-Trump dossier, docs reveal’ (Fox News, March 16, 2019 “Former British spy Christopher Steele confessed that he used an unverified report submitted to a CNN website, where “random individuals” can post information, for his salacious anti-Trump dossier.” Were the surrogates of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama among the “random individuals” posting information to the CNN iReport website? Did the FBI rely mostly on these “random” posts in applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in seeking to surveil Trump aide Carter Page? “Steele made the awkward revelation during a deposition last year in a case involving Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, who claims his companies Webzilla and XBT Holdings were defamed by Steele after the dossier was published by BuzzFeed. (Fox News) “Steele was asked during the deposition how he verified allegations about Gubarev’s companies and whether he found “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla,” according to the newly released transcripts of the deposition. “We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport,” Steele said.”

The July 28, 2009 story in question on the iReport has been lost in Cyberspace. This is how CNN describes its iReport: “The CNN iReport, states that it’s a “user-generated site” and warns that “the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked or screened before they post.” (Fox News) Even the site’s banner included the slogan “Unedited. Unfiltered. News.” So iReport was Fake News long before CNN became Fake News King. Noteworthy that the story Steele says he lifted was dated July 28, 2009. Not only was 2009 former president Barack Obama’s first year in office—but Donald Trump was not even in the picture yet. “When asked whether the former British spy understood how the website actually worked, he confessed that “I do not have any particular knowledge of that” and noted he didn’t understand at the time that the site has “no connection to any CNN reporters.” (Fox News) “Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individuals’ assertions on the Internet?” an examiner asked Steele. “He replied: “No, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has [sic] some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site.”





What kind of MI6 spy is that? What kind of MI6 spy is that? According to the archive copy of the iReports site, the website specifically notes that none of the users who submit content can be described as working for CNN. (Fox News) “Being an iReport.com user and creating and uploading content to iReport.com does not mean that you work for CNN, and you should never represent yourself as working for CNN,” the site’s FAQ section read. “The dossier authored by Steele alleged that Gubarev’s companies “used botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct ‘alerting operations’ against the Democratic Party leadership” and that Gubarev himself played a “significant” part in the operation while “under duress” from the Russian security agency FSB. “Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence, were hired by Glenn Simpson’s U.S. based company, Fusion GPS, to work on the dossier and promote its contents to journalists. Fusion GPS received $1.8 million via the law firm Perkins Coie, with the money paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.” From the iReport’s web archive: iReport invites you to take part in the news with CNN. Your voice, together with other iReporters, can help shape what CNN covers and how. At CNN we believe that looking at the news from different angles gives us a deeper understanding of what’s going on. We also know that the world is an amazing place filled with interesting people doing fascinating things that don’t always make the news. That’s why iReport is full of tools built to share stories that are happening where you are and discuss the issues that are important to you. Everything you see on iReport starts with someone in the CNN audience. The stories here are not edited fact-checked or screened before they post. CNN’s producers will check out some of the most compelling, important and urgent iReports and, once they’re cleared for CNN, make them a part of CNN’s news coverage. (Look for the red “CNN iReport” stamp to see which stories have been vetted for CNN.) Together, CNN and iReport can paint a more complete picture of the news. We’d love for you to join us. Jump on in, tell your story and see how it connects with someone on the other side of the world. Here are some resources to get started: All CNN dodging alibis about its iReport can be discredited with just one little factoid, CNN’s name is in the url.







Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints are all over the Dirty Dossier Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints are all over the Dirty Dossier. All of those wondering why Clinton was not and probably never will be DoJ prosecuted for criminal activity is because when Bill Clinton was elected president and moved into the White House, Hillary took temporary possession of FBI research files on almost all of Congress Critters, Judges, Prosecutors and top bureaucrats at that time. The Clintons had those files for weeks. and plenty of time to copy and make Blackmail files out of anything embarrassing or border line corrupt, real and or suspected by the FBI. “Those files might at this time be her free pass from prosecution and you know since the Trump Dossier was a Clinton production and it was and is all a lie, do you or the people whose files have been copied have any doubt that she would do her best to take as many of them and her own people to jail or the court of public opinion in a heartbeat?” asks CFP reader Tony Mangan. And you can depend that Hillary stole more than all the ‘w’s’ from off the keyboards when the Clintons left the White House after the election of George W. Bush in 2001. Meanwhile, which careening out-of-control storyline will explode before making it across the finish line? Mueller Report Arriving at the Finish Line





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