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Originally Posted by vienna

Odd, thing about that op-ed piece, it doesn't actually give any solid, verifiable refutation of the facts given in the New Yorker article, its just a long screed of Far-Right oft-refuted claims and wild allegations of no substance;

So let me see if I understand this logic. When a very left biased journalist, writes an article in a very left biased publication that's basically written in stone truth that's beyond criticism? Mayer has a long history of attacking conservatives and could hardly be considered anything but a left wing/progressive hack. That's my op-ed opinion.

Some 'refutation of the facts'....

The piece reads like an Adam Schiff memo, with Mayer peddling the Democratic spin at every turn. Steele, we’re told, is a staggeringly talented spy, but not quite talented enough to know the origins of the funding for his dossier.

Mayer’s treatment of the Winer-Steele-Shearer part of the story is comically dishonest. Once again, our omniscient spy doesn't know anything. Steele, according to Mayer, didn't know that Cody Shearer is “tied to the Clintons,” and so passes on his dossier to the FBI in perfect innocence. Yet at the end of the piece we’re told that Strobe Talbott has known “Steele professionally for ten years” and praises him. But Mayer never tells readers that Talbott is Shearer’s brother-in-law. That would have been too embarrassing and inconvenient and so she leaves it out.

It is whoppers like that one which mark Mayer out as the perfect stenographer for the ruling class and render her piece no more credible than the Steele dossier.

https://spectator.org/jane-mayers-pu...topher-steele/

As for the dossier.....

A private company had minute by minute intelligence on the Manchurian Candidate scheme and all the indictable illegal activity that was going on, which the CIA/NSA/GCHQ/MI6 did not have, despite their specific tasking and enormous technical, staff and financial resources amounting between them to over 150,000 staff and the availability of hundreds of billions of dollars to do nothing but this.

A private western company is able to run a state level intelligence operation in Russia for years, continually interviewing senior security sources and people personally close to Putin, without being caught by the Russian security services – despite the fact the latter are brilliant enough to install a Manchurian candidate as President of the USA. This private western company can for example secretly interview staff in top Moscow hotels – which they themselves say are Russian security service controlled – without the staff being too scared to speak to them or ending up dead. They can continually pump Putin’s friends for information and get it.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archi...nged-mattress/