{"id":32521,"date":"2018-01-30T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32521"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:20:41","slug":"some-perspective-from-someone-with-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32521","title":{"rendered":"Some Perspective From Someone With Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Johnson<\/a> at Power Line<\/a> posted an article today about the testimony of Glenn Simpson before Congress. The testimony of Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, was released by Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein<\/a> of California without the consent of Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article at Power Line reports:<\/p>\n

…Edward Jay Epstein<\/a> is the author, most recently, of How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft<\/em><\/a> and the City Journal<\/a> column \u201cA question of motive.\u201d<\/a> Ed\u2019s long career has centered on issues of intelligence and counterintelligence with respect to which the late CIA head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton<\/a>, turned out to be a mentor to Ed as he navigated his path in that world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article cites Edward Jay Epstein’s insight into recent events:<\/p>\n

I asked Ed if he would comment on \u201cDisinformation, Democrat style\u201d<\/a> (citing the testimony of Glenn Simpson) and the related Wall Street Journal<\/a> column by Daniel Hoffman<\/a>, \u201cThe Steele dossier fits the Kremlin playbook\u201d<\/a> (behind the Journal paywall). Ed writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have read Simpson\u2019s testimony. I\u2019ve also done research into Christopher Steele, who I believe has his own agenda. Steele\u2019s dossier Sources A and B have to be assumed to be supplying curated information. Any former Russian intelligence officer, especially one still active in the Kremlin, would understand that supplying secret information to an intermediary for a former British intelligence officer would be the essence of espionage. That is how espionage is conducted through access agents or intermediaries. They would not be putting their lives at stake to pass this information on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A safer assumption is that they cleared the information with the FSB. If so, and I see no other alternative, it is curated information. Why would Russia be supplying curated information to the Clinton campaign? The simple answer is they expected Clinton to win and this would give them compromising Leverage over the new president. After all, it is also against American law to pay foreign officials to act corruptly. So if she won Hillary could be accused of the same thing that Trump is now accused of. It also adds to the bad image of American elections. So I believe the Russians were feeding both sides with slime, or trying to.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And through the Clinton presidential campaign they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems as though a lot of people were placing heavy bets on a Clinton win. It is a shame that some of these bets caused them to do things that were against the law. It is interesting that the fact that it is against American law to pay foreign officials to act corruptly has not been brought up yet in the discussion of misbehavior during the 2016 presidential campaign. It seems as if the Clintons corrupt everyone they interact with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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