Posted on 06/30/2018 7:42:45 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
It’s called “falling in love with your source.” I did it, my colleagues did it, intelligence professionals collectively do it, and none of us are ever the better for it.
Here’s how it happens, at least from the collector level. I spent 20 years in the U.S. Army as an interrogator and strategic debriefer, with most of my second decade of service spent in and around embassies in the Middle East. My job at the embassy was to debrief walk-in sources, defectors, visa applicants of particular interest who agreed to talk to me, and anyone else of interest to the intelligence community who popped up in the region and fell into my column as a debriefing subject.
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They thought Russia was ‘too big to fail’.
This sounds like an excuse to vindicate the bias against Donald Trump that is rampant within the government bureaucracy.
IMO Steele was getting his information from the FBI via Nellie Ohr who relayed it to Steele. The FBI must have had a file on Trump for years, filled with innuendo and rumors that were unverified. When Steele’s dossier contained similar information, it was a circular confirmation. The Steele dossier contained what the FBI had in its unverified files.
yeah.....the FIB and DOJ were blinded by “love”......Thats the ticket!..cant hang them for love can you?
“They Fell In Love With Their Source”
They fell in love with anti-Trump coalition.
Fakenews. This was the insurance policy to stop Trump.
This suggests that the FBI was guilty of oversight or neglect. Instead it was a deliberate conspiracy to rid us of Trump with malice of forethought.
Someone had to fabricate a dosier to support all of that. It was going to come from somewhere two degrees removed from Hillary and her enablers.
They in collusion with others created their source.
But the failing was a moral failing. It was corruption, graft, greed and anti-constitutional subversion. The only process that fixes that involves rope and lamp-posts. To encourage the others.
I think this article is a trial balloon for a denouement of the Mueller probe. It’s asking “Hey, conservatives — would you accept maybe 1-2 heads on platters and the end of the Russia nonsense in exchange for letting everyone else keep their jobs with a ‘oops, innocent mistake, nothing to see here’ attitude?”. Personally I’d take the offer but others might have a higher sense of justice.
They despised Trump period.
Makes sense.
I read through the whole article. That is an interesting perspective and theory.
We just went through 8 years of the Obama administration basically purging our intelligence agencies, the IRS, EPA, NOAH, NASA and basically every other federal institution and even our military leadership. Anyone who wanted a promotion had to tow the line. We are going to have issues for many years to come that go much deeper than the Mueller witch hunt.
What happened to Susan Rice’s stand down order to her American cyber specialist who was combating Russian interference?
Why did that story go away?
Were they working with the Russians?
A major question is: Why did they so desperately *want* to believe him?
Because they hated Trump and wanted to destroy his presidency.
Falling in love with informants - not buying it.
They wanted to believe and it satisfied a lot of hatred.
Good Post.
There is an additional problem with the 302’s possibly being altered. If that turns out to be true, they won’t be able to fallback on the we made a honest mistake excuse..
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