Hillary Clinton’s disingenuous dossier outrage

Washington Post ^ | October 25, 2017 | By Callum Borchers

[Oldeconomybuyer]

When BuzzFeed published that now-infamous dossier of unproven claims about Donald Trump and Russia, in January, former Hillary Clinton campaign aides expressed outrage that news outlets that had obtained the dossier before Election Day did not make its contents public in time to influence voters, and Clinton later aired the same grievance in her book about the presidential race.

It turns out that the reaction of the Democratic presidential nominee and her team was disingenuous.

What Clinton and her advisers presented as their judgment that the media had made the wrong call was, in fact, their frustration at having failed to plant negative news reports before ballots were cast.

There is a fundamental contradiction here: Clinton wanted the dossier to be viewed as credible yet she did not want to be connected to it. She hoped the media, before Election Day, would publish claims about Trump to which she was unwilling to attach her own name.

[piasa]

Bob Bauer served on the review board involved in the stolen Panetta review documents. In that case two Feinstein staffers, Starzak and Dan Jones, opened and copied [stole] the classified CIA documents without first taking their find to proper officials to seek permission for release.

[Grampa Dave]

Hispanic, I believe. Who knows?

[ViLaLuz]

The first name is an Aztec name, the last Hispanic.