“When was Russia-was-behind-the-hack proven to be true? The FBI never tested the computers. The DNC at the time was constructing a Russia-did-it excuse to deflect attention from its damaging emails and did not want law enforcement to poke around its story too much.”
(Thomas Farnan – Human Events) George C. Parker was a con man who specialized in selling unwary immigrants the Brooklyn Bridge. His ruse was discovered when the police had to arrest a few poor souls who set up toll booths on the access ramp. The resulting expression, “I have a bridge to sell you,” is a gibe at the victims of dumb frauds.
Last week, Andrew McCarthy ended his article about the dubious Russian origins of the Steele Dossier with the following statement:
Really? We’re supposed to believe that when Steele was not slumming with the wannabe likes of Sergei Millian, he was plugged in to the crème de la Kremlin? Count me skeptical. As Daniel Hoffman, the CIA’s former station chief in Moscow, told the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, trusted figures in Russia’s national-security bureaucracy “never stop” working for the Kremlin. In Trubnikov’s case, “there’s no such thing as a former intelligence officer.” And Surkov might as well be Putin’s right hand. If these characters were Steele’s sources, they were not spying on the Kremlin but getting the West believe what the Kremlin wanted to West to believe.
It is a stretch to think Steele was plugged into real Russian sources.
He had not been to Russia in many years (McCarthy places his absence at nearly twenty). He spent his professional life as an anti-Russia gadfly. Fatuous claims are made on his behalf that Putin has ordered him to be poisoned.
Hilariously, he’s the ex-spy our vaunted intelligence services relied on to explore whether Putin had kompromat on Trump.