You Will Anyway: "Evidence" Leaked

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

"Evidence" Leaked

Some documents from July through December, which are apparently the source of the intel regarding Russia hacking the DNC, have been published by Buzzfeed. They also include some fun stuff regarding Trump, that whether true or not, should provide us with a new Tweetstorm.

A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.
Buzzfeed

It's like those TV prescription drug commercials. They tell you about it and then spend the last half telling you all the horrible things that could go wrong. No matter, though, because you've stopped listening after you heard it would cure your imagined ailment.

A dossier making explosive — but unverified — allegations that the Russian government has been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” President-elect Donald Trump for years and gained compromising information about him has been circulating among elected officials, intelligence agents, and journalists for weeks.

Of course it has. The Hillary camp just cannot get over the fact that she lost.

The dossier, which is a collection of memos written over a period of months, includes specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians.

"Potentially unverifible." And the jury will disregard what was just said. The best part is going to be the public speculation and the responding Inflatable Trump Rooster tweetstorms. Also: there are no "graphic claims of sexual acts." There are hints and one case of paid pissing.

CNN reported Tuesday that a two-page synopsis of the report was given to President Barack Obama and Trump.

Is that odd? Well, they can both read the whole thing now. And so can you.

Now BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.

The document was prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent. It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors. The report misspells the name of one company, “Alpha Group,” throughout. It is Alfa Group.

As errors go, does that really matter?

The report says the settlement of Barvikha, outside Moscow, is “reserved for the residences of the top leadership and their close associates.” It is not reserved for anyone, and it is also populated by the very wealthy.

Okay. It was prepared by a crap (and former) intelligence agent. But, it doesn't matter. It's been published. And if it were aimed at anybody other than Donald Trump, that might make a difference. But since it's about him, it's just more of the same we got during the last months of the campaign, so that even if it's true, it's not going to change anything.

The documents have circulated for months and acquired a kind of legendary status among journalists, lawmakers, and intelligence officials who have seen them.

Months? So how come they didn't get spilled before the election?

The documents are included at this link if you care to read them.

They include the claim that Putin has been "cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for at least 5 years." And that "his conduct in Moscow has included perverted sexual acts which have been arranged/monitored by the FSB."

One of his alleged "perverse" acts was to hire the Ritz Carlton presidential suite where he knew Pres and Mrs Obama had stayed on a trip to Russia and hired "a number of" Russian prostitutes to "perform a 'golden showers' show in front of him." Can't wait for the Tweets on that one. This was supposedly in 2013. If it actually happened, it sounds to me like he paid some hookers to pee on the bed where Obama slept. That actually sounds like something he would do. Would he really be too stupid to realize that the Russians bug all the hotels where foreign dignitaries might stay? More likely in 2013 he didn't care.

Another document claims that in St. Petersburg, Trump "paid bribes and engaged in" unspecified "sexual activities" but that the witnesses were "silenced" and evidence was "hard to obtain." Not suspicious at all. It's not that I don't think the Inflatable Trump Rooster is capable of paying for "sexual activities" (try not to picture it), but how ridiculous is that vague claim? He did it but we don't have evidence. It also says he participated in sex parties in St. Petersburg. Participated as in "watched"? Same problem regarding witnesses and evidence. Maybe he did, but there's no evidence. And who the hell in this country (besides Hillary's supporters who can't believe they lost) gives a shit? Or even a piss? The only thing continuing to beat this dead horse does is create a bigger cushion of protection against anything helpful being done about Trump. Unless you count the entertainment value of reading the Tweetstorms it provokes.

One document says that the Russians offered him "various lucrative real estate" deals but "for reasons unknown" he didn't take them up on any of them. What are we supposed to draw from that? It claims he - or rather "his team", managed by Paul Manafort - was complicit in receiving intel from the Russians on Hillary Clinton and offering in exchange information on Russian oligarchs in the US.

The complaint about all the "perversions" seems to be that the Russians could blackmail him with the information. Really? Unless he had some little boys in bed with him, I'm pretty sure there's nothing he'd be afraid to admit to. If crude and even illegal behavior of a sexual nature were a problem for Trump, he would not be president.

Still, I'm looking forward to the tweets.

And, oh yes, the documents also include the claim that the Russians were indeed behind the leak of DNC emails to Wikileaks, with the "full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team," as well as "agents/facilitators within the Democratic Party structure itself."

So, there's your evidence. Still zip.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: It begins.

via GIPHY

FURTHER UPDATE 1/11: Glenn Greenwald lays out the story of the documents, how they were created and disbersed, why they are either worse than useless - they're unethical and dangerous - or they've laid bare the nature of the attacks on Trump with these sorts of Russia-linked bullshit, and probably both.

YET FURTHER UPDATE:

NBC News: Trump was NOT briefed on the addendum—& NO documents were handed to Trump team, sr. US intel official says https://t.co/asdPgm3Hx1 pic.twitter.com/o5xTIihefZ
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 11, 2017

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