“It’s fascinating the response of the media with the Russian collusion narrative that was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign secretly. They denied that they funded the Steele dossier. But they took that, didn’t question it,” Turley stated. He further questioned why reporters, some of whom received Pulitzers for their coverage, failed to pursue leads suggesting Hillary Clinton’s campaign was behind the narrative.
Turley detailed pivotal moments, tracing the unfolding events back to July 2016. He revealed that then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed Obama on Hillary Clinton’s alleged plan to fabricate a Russian collusion narrative to deflect from her email scandal.
“Laura, we’re finally seeing parts of the timeline filled in, and it’s creating a very damning picture,” Turley told host Laura Ingraham. He added that months later, Brennan reportedly “intervened, overruled people at CIA, and put the Steele dossier, this infamous debunked report, into the assessment being used by the Obama White House at the very end of Obama’s term.”
The declassified information also suggests that foreign sources were aware of the FBI’s involvement in the impending investigation even before its official launch.
Turley asserted, “That helped seed this whole Russian collusion investigation that the FBI then used to effectively derail the first term of President Trump.” He characterized this as “the real Russian conspiracy,” arguing it was a conspiracy of individuals who “seeded this investigation and intentionally kept it going, even lying to the courts.”
The New York Times and The Washington Post jointly received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018 for their coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and connections to the Trump campaign. However, the Steele dossier, which played a key role in securing warrants to monitor Trump associates like Carter Page, has since been widely discredited. In October 2022, FBI analyst Brian Auten testified that the FBI offered Steele $1 million to verify the dossier, but he failed to do so.
Further undermining the narrative, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee were fined by the Federal Election Commission in 2022 for their involvement in promoting the discredited dossier.
https://www.tampafp.com/jonathan-turley-points-to-media-as-declassified-docs-shed-new-light-on-russia-hoax/