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Rolling Stone: How scandalously wrong the news media was about the anti-Trump "dossier"

Dated: December 11, 2019 by Sharyl Attkisson 1 Comment

      

The following is an excerpt from an article in Rolling Stone entitled:

โ€˜Corroboration Zeroโ€™: An Inspector Generalโ€™s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke: The report throws water on one โ€œdeep stateโ€ conspiracy theory of the Russia investigation, but validates complaints about โ€œfake newsโ€

By Matt Taibbi

The Guardian headline reads: โ€œDOJ Internal watchdog report clears FBI of illegal surveillance of Trump adviser.โ€

If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a โ€œclearingโ€ of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was.

Like the much-ballyhooed report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the Horowitz report is a Rorschach test, in which partisans will find what they want to find.

Much of the press is concentrating on Horowitzโ€™s conclusion that there was no evidence of โ€œpolitical bias or improper motivationโ€ in the FBIโ€™s probe of Donald Trumpโ€™s Russia contacts, an investigation Horowitz says the bureau had โ€œauthorized purposeโ€ to conduct.

Horowitz uses phrases like โ€œserious performance failures,โ€ describing his 416-page catalogue of errors and manipulations as incompetence rather than corruption. This throws water on the notion that the Trump investigation was a vast frame-up. (Continued...)

Read the rest of the article in Rolling Stone by clicking the link below:

โ€˜Corroboration Zeroโ€™: An Inspector Generalโ€™s Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke
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