[Ugnet] FBI'S SPREADSHEET PUTS A STAKE THROUGH THE HEART OF STEELE'S DOSSIER

2019-07-18 Thread Herrn Mulindwa Edward 
FBI's spreadsheet puts a stake through the heart of Steele's dossier

By John Solomon, opinion contributor — 07/17/19 07:00 PM EDT 

Some in the news media have tried in recent days to rekindle their long-lost
love affair with former MI6 agent
 Christopher Steele and his
now
 infamous dossier.

The main trigger was a lengthy interview in June with the Department of
Justice (DOJ) inspector general, which
 some news
outlets suggested meant U.S. officials have found Steele, the former Hillary
Clinton-backed political muckraker, to be believable. 

“Investigators ultimately found Steele’s testimony credible and even
surprising,”
 Politico crowed. The Washington Post
 went even further,
suggesting Steele’s assistance to the inspector general might “undermine
Trumpworld’s alt-narrative” that the Russia-collusion investigation was
flawed.

For sure, Steele may have valuable information to aid Justice’s internal
affairs probe into misconduct during the 2016 Russia election probe. His
dossier alleging a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow
ultimately   was disproven, but
not before his intelligence was used to secure a surveillance warrant
targeting the Trump campaign in the final days of the 2016 election.  

Investigators are trying to ascertain what the British intelligence
operative told the FBI about his sources, his relation to the Democratic
Party and Clinton campaign, his hatred for
 Donald Trump, his
 Election Day deadline to get
his information public and his leaking to media outlets before agents used
his dossier to justify a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
warrant to spy on ex-Trump campaign adviser
 Carter Page.

There is evidence Steele told the DOJ in July, and the State Department in
October, about all of these flaws in his work, and that State officials even
detected blatant inaccuracies in his intelligence. If so, all of that
information should have been flagged by the FBI as potentially derogatory
information weighing against Steele’s use as a source for the FISA warrant.

But lest anyone be tempted to think Steele’s 2016 dossier is about to be
mysteriously revived as credible, consider this: Over months of work, FBI
agents painstakingly researched every claim Steele made about Trump’s
possible collusion with Russia, and assembled their findings into a
spreadsheet-like document.

The over-under isn’t flattering to Steele.

Multiple sources familiar with the FBI spreadsheet tell me the vast majority
of Steele’s claims were deemed to be wrong, or could not be corroborated
even with the most awesome tools available to the U.S. intelligence
community. One source estimated the spreadsheet found upward of 90 percent
of the dossier’s claims to be either wrong, nonverifiable or open-source
intelligence found with a Google search.

In other words, it was mostly useless.

“The spreadsheet was a sea of blanks, meaning most claims couldn’t be
corroborated, and those things that were found in classified intelligence
suggested Steele’s intelligence was partly or totally inaccurate on several
claims,” one source told me.

The FBI declined comment when asked about the spreadsheet.

The FBI’s final assessment was driven by many findings contained in
classified footnotes at the bottom of the spreadsheet. But it was also
informed by an agent’s interview, in early 2017, with a Russian that Steele
claimed was one of his main providers of intelligence, according to my
sources.

The FBI came to suspect that the Russian misled Steele, either intentionally
or through exaggeration, the sources said.

The spreadsheet and a subsequent report by special prosecutor
 Robert Mueller show just how far
off the seminal claims in the Steele dossier turned out to be.

For example, U.S. intelligence found no evidence that Carter Page, during a
trip to Moscow in July 2016, secretly met with two associates of
 Vladimir Putin Igor Sechin and
senior government official Igor Divyekin — as part of the effort to collude
with the Trump campaign, as Steele reported.

Page did meet with a lower-level Rosneft official, and shook hands with a
Russian deputy prime minister, the FBI found, but it was a far cry from

[Ugnet] DEMOCRATS TO INTRODUCE RESOLUTION DECLARING SUPPORT FOR ANTI-ISRAEL MOVEMENT

2019-07-18 Thread Herrn Mulindwa Edward 
Omar to Introduce Resolution Declaring Support for Anti-Israel BDS Movement

 

Jack Crowe

 

July 17, 2019

Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will introduce a resolution this week
declaring support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,
which seeks to elevate the Palestinian negotiating position vis-a-vis Israel
through an international pressure campaign.

“We are introducing a resolution . . . to really speak about the American
values that support and believe in our ability to exercise our first
amendment rights in regard to boycotting,” Omar
 told Al-Monitor. “And it is an opportunity for us
to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS
movement.”

The announcement comes on the same day that the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, on which Omar sits, plans to vote on another
 non-binding resolution explicitly condemning the BDS
movement as an attempt to “undermine the two state solution” by demanding
“concessions of one party alone and encourag[ing] Palestinians to reject
negotiations in favor of international pressure.”

The anti-BDS resolution further notes that the movement’s founder, Omar
Bharghouti, has openly dismissed the possibility of reaching any settlement
that allows the state of Israel to retain its sovereignty.

Omar is expected to cast the lone vote against the anti-BDS resolution,
further highlighting the divide between herself and the panel’s older,
more-established lawmakers, who have condemned her comments about Israel in
the past.

Representative Elliot Engel (D., N.Y.), the committee’s chairman, accused
Omar of “invoking a vile, anti-Semitic slur” earlier this year
 after she suggested that
pro-Israel American lawmakers’ loyalty to the country was suspect. However,
he resisted Republican calls to remove Omar from the panel in the wake of
her comments.

The House also passed a non-binding resolution in March condemning
anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in response to Omar’s suggestions that
support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins.”

Omar told CBS News’s Gayle King this week that she doesn’t regret the words
she used to cast support for Israel as primarily the product of the Israel
lobby’s financial influence.

“So you don’t regret your words either?” King asked.

“I do not. But I have gotten the — I am grateful for the opportunity to
really learn how my words make people feel and have taken every single
opportunity I’ve gotten to make sure that people understood that I apologize
for it,” Omar responded.

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[Ugnet] PRESIDENT TRUMP MEETING WITH RELIGIOUS SURVIVOS YESTERDAY

2019-07-18 Thread Herrn Mulindwa Edward 
 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqSfB-QUJTM

 

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"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko" 

 

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