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Fallout: Buzzfeed seems to be challenging Mueller's credibility on Cohen story.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:07 pm
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Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:12 pm to cajunangelle
Can somebody paste the highlights I will not do the paywall for WaPo.
LINK
There is no way around it, I tried.
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There is no way around it, I tried.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:17 pm to cajunangelle
Buzzfeed, the “adult” equivalent of high school girl’s bathroom gossip, is going head-to-head against Mueller, the congressional equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition.
My oh my .... what a time to be alive.
My oh my .... what a time to be alive.
This post was edited on 1/19/19 at 8:19 pm
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:41 pm to cajunangelle
google the exact name of the article in your browsers incognito mode and enjoy.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:44 pm to cajunangelle
That's what really boggles the mind. How did Mueller not know what evidence he did or didn't have? You're telling me it took him half a day to refute this report because he was actually trying to find out whether or not the evidence Buzzfeed is talking about even existed? I would like to think Mueller and those high up on his investigative team would have immediately known if the information posited by the article was accurate or not.
This post was edited on 1/19/19 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:47 pm to RollTide1987
quote:he's probably got 8 to 20k propaganda documents. No way he can know what's there.
. How did Mueller not know what evidence he did or didn't have?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:54 pm to cajunangelle
man, I love it when they eat their own
the best part? this shitshow could not have happened at better time
just 1 day before President Trump appeared in the public eye to offer a reasonable compromise and show the world that he is willing to negotiate and make compromises to push forward for the greater good
it's ALMOST as if some mystical force of fate or the hand of God almighty steered these events
almost...
the best part? this shitshow could not have happened at better time
just 1 day before President Trump appeared in the public eye to offer a reasonable compromise and show the world that he is willing to negotiate and make compromises to push forward for the greater good
it's ALMOST as if some mystical force of fate or the hand of God almighty steered these events
almost...
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:56 pm to RollTide1987
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I would like to think Mueller and those high up on his investigative team would have immediately known if the information posited by the article was accurate or not.
something this big and damning? yeah, he SHOULD have known
it almost makes it look like Mueller and his team are making stuff up to bring down Trump and don't really know what evidence they actually have or what is propaganda to be used if all else fails
almost...
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:00 pm to cajunangelle
It took a half day to get a scorching hot phone call from Barr, then get his toadies to write the statement.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:44 pm to cajunangelle
Buzzfeed knows more about the Mueller investigation then his own prosecutors on the case!!!
Color me shocked!!
Color me shocked!!
Posted on 1/20/19 at 7:34 am to SlapahoeTribe
Look at the desperation. They planted a Nunes fake story and no one noticed...
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It appears the Daily Beast didn’t get the memo that we’re on to the signs of a Fusion GPS-linked story.
In an article published last week, four Daily Beast reporters ran with the headline “Mueller Probes an Event With Nunes, Flynn, and Foreign Officials at Trump’s D.C. Hotel.” The dek for the story reads: “Devin Nunes has been a pitbull for the president, growling at the prosecutors investigating Trumpworld. Now an event that Nunes himself attended is under Mueller’s microscope.” The photo accompanying the article includes not one, not two, but three images of Nunes with a red tinge.
The first paragraph also puts Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) front-and-center of the affair:
The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations.
The aim of the article is clear: Nunes is somehow involved in whatever nefarious plots of which Flynn was a part. Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor, previously pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.
Nothing in the story suggests Nunes has actually done anything wrong or is being investigated. In fact, despite the headline, dek, photo, the listing of Nunes ahead of Flynn, and the entire crux of the story (that this event was shady), the Beast notes in the fourth paragraph that Nunes “has not been accused of any wrongdoing.” The second half of the story is still all about Nunes' close relationship with Trump and Flynn.
The story has nearly all the hallmarks of a Fusion GPS smear campaign: (1) the story is reported from the angle that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office and Manhattan, NY, prosecutors are investigating something about the event; (2) the sources for the story are incredibly vague, initially “three sources familiar with the investigations,” and, later, “two sources familiar with the Special Counsel’s Office questioning”; and (3) few, if any, details are given to prove or explain the story beyond the headline. The only one of the four hallmarks missing is that this story doesn’t appear to confirm a specific claim in the dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, although it does seem to connect to the whole Russian collusion theory propagated by Fusion GPS.
The article claims Mueller and federal prosecutors are looking into this breakfast meeting from January 18, 2017 as part of two separate investigations. Manhattan federal prosecutors are trying to determine if the Trump inaugural committee misspent funds and allowed donors to potentially buy influence with the administration. Mueller is looking into the event to see if foreign money was illegally funneled into the Trump inaugural fund and PAC using American intermediaries, according to the Beast.
LINK
It appears the Daily Beast didn’t get the memo that we’re on to the signs of a Fusion GPS-linked story.
In an article published last week, four Daily Beast reporters ran with the headline “Mueller Probes an Event With Nunes, Flynn, and Foreign Officials at Trump’s D.C. Hotel.” The dek for the story reads: “Devin Nunes has been a pitbull for the president, growling at the prosecutors investigating Trumpworld. Now an event that Nunes himself attended is under Mueller’s microscope.” The photo accompanying the article includes not one, not two, but three images of Nunes with a red tinge.
The first paragraph also puts Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) front-and-center of the affair:
The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations.
The aim of the article is clear: Nunes is somehow involved in whatever nefarious plots of which Flynn was a part. Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor, previously pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak.
Nothing in the story suggests Nunes has actually done anything wrong or is being investigated. In fact, despite the headline, dek, photo, the listing of Nunes ahead of Flynn, and the entire crux of the story (that this event was shady), the Beast notes in the fourth paragraph that Nunes “has not been accused of any wrongdoing.” The second half of the story is still all about Nunes' close relationship with Trump and Flynn.
The story has nearly all the hallmarks of a Fusion GPS smear campaign: (1) the story is reported from the angle that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office and Manhattan, NY, prosecutors are investigating something about the event; (2) the sources for the story are incredibly vague, initially “three sources familiar with the investigations,” and, later, “two sources familiar with the Special Counsel’s Office questioning”; and (3) few, if any, details are given to prove or explain the story beyond the headline. The only one of the four hallmarks missing is that this story doesn’t appear to confirm a specific claim in the dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, although it does seem to connect to the whole Russian collusion theory propagated by Fusion GPS.
The article claims Mueller and federal prosecutors are looking into this breakfast meeting from January 18, 2017 as part of two separate investigations. Manhattan federal prosecutors are trying to determine if the Trump inaugural committee misspent funds and allowed donors to potentially buy influence with the administration. Mueller is looking into the event to see if foreign money was illegally funneled into the Trump inaugural fund and PAC using American intermediaries, according to the Beast.
This post was edited on 1/20/19 at 7:37 am
Posted on 1/20/19 at 7:54 am to Vacherie Saint
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something this big and damning? yeah, he SHOULD have known
it almost makes it look like Mueller and his team are making stuff up to bring down Trump and don't really know what evidence they actually have or what is propaganda to be used if all else fails
EXACTLY Dcbl, exactly. You telling me you have put all your efforts into digging for gold for two years, you find the biggest nugget ever discovered, and you dont know if you found it or not??????Bullshite.
Just some flak thrown out there to take the message away from the leaked ohr testimony, and yes as someone else posted, Barr probably did call him and say WTF are you doing to the agency integrity I built you idiot.
Posted on 1/20/19 at 7:56 am to arcalades
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he's probably got 8 to 20k propaganda documents. No way he can know what's there.
He should bill Buzzfeed for the time he wasted on it.
Posted on 1/20/19 at 7:58 am to cajunangelle
Ok so Buzzfeed is saying the SC lied about it?
So if they are untrustworthy in this instance... they can be deemed completely untrustworthy and should be disbanded. Is that a position they would support?
Or they lied about the bit that will probably be their undoing and nothing else? So Buzzfeed wants an apology, a 180 to support their story, and an obviously honorable and trustworthy man that lied about their story to continue his honorable and trustworthy investigation?
So if they are untrustworthy in this instance... they can be deemed completely untrustworthy and should be disbanded. Is that a position they would support?
Or they lied about the bit that will probably be their undoing and nothing else? So Buzzfeed wants an apology, a 180 to support their story, and an obviously honorable and trustworthy man that lied about their story to continue his honorable and trustworthy investigation?
Posted on 1/20/19 at 8:28 am to cajunangelle
I really believe this is a canary trap. Buzzfeed is standing by their sources bc they were likely legit info to them in the past.
The White House got skeptical of who was leaking info and fed these two law “enforcement officials” a lie to see where it would end up and bingo.
The White House got skeptical of who was leaking info and fed these two law “enforcement officials” a lie to see where it would end up and bingo.
Posted on 1/20/19 at 8:57 am to Shepherd88
But the leak came from the SC, and I think they did it to take the wind out of the ohr testimony leak that made them look like the corrupt entity they are.
Its classic Mueller. Manafort was cooperating with the SC and the senate. The Page/Strozak emails leak and immediately the feds raid Manaforts home replete with a PGrab on his wife in her nightgown. Why, is that what you do to a witness who is cooperating? Simply to move the optics away from Page/Strozak and stop some of the open testimony Manafort was giving the Senate/House.
They dont have shat, they will soon have a new boss who will tell them to finish this debacle, and they are flailing in the wind at this point.
Its classic Mueller. Manafort was cooperating with the SC and the senate. The Page/Strozak emails leak and immediately the feds raid Manaforts home replete with a PGrab on his wife in her nightgown. Why, is that what you do to a witness who is cooperating? Simply to move the optics away from Page/Strozak and stop some of the open testimony Manafort was giving the Senate/House.
They dont have shat, they will soon have a new boss who will tell them to finish this debacle, and they are flailing in the wind at this point.
Posted on 1/20/19 at 9:03 am to cajunangelle
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Fallout: Buzzfeed seems to be challenging Mueller's credibility on Cohen story
Setting it up for when Mueller issues his report and comes back with nothing.
Posted on 1/20/19 at 10:07 am to cajunangelle
Mark Levin was on Fox this morn, CA...and summed it up as usual. Meuller's Team LEAKED this stuff (as usual), but Meuller was informed that this time there would indeed be a serious Investigation opened into the criminal leaking. And once that Investigation got going, Meuller knew exactly what that would lead too, exposure of all manner of illegal collusion/leaking with MSM propaganda agents. Meuller issued the denial in order to shut down the inevitable investigation had he not. Pure old CYA. It wasn't Buzzfeed's Agents whose cahonnies were on the chopping block...it was Meuller's. The MSM loves to show Meuller with that confident smirk...but I it's uplifting to know that IRL, dude is in deep and squirming to fend off the inevitable disclosure of His fraudulent (I.e., criminal) *Investigation*. I love it.
Posted on 1/20/19 at 1:43 pm to Shepherd88
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I really believe this is a canary trap. Buzzfeed is standing by their sources bc they were likely legit info to them in the past
This is the only thing that makes sense. While I by no means trust BuzzFeed, I also think they are sincere in that they have sources telling them this. I don't think these reporters sat down and made this all up.
But I don't think this is a canary trap from Trump's side. I think it's either FusionGPS fricking will us (I mean who really knows who all is working with Fusion), or Mueller's team putting the story out there for some unknown reason (maybe to see how Trump would react).
Also, let us not forget Russia, who was essentially steering FusionGPS on the Prevezon case. So we know Fusion is closely connected to Putin.
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