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Washington Post vs. the Steele Dossier
In a compelling, if incomplete, account of some of the worst media actors in the Russian collusion hoax, the Washington Post neglects its own complicity.
In the thick catalog of media players responsible for promoting the phony Russia collusion storyline, the Washington Post occupies a marquee spot. The Post arguably inflicted the most damage on the first few months of Donald Trump’s presidency by pushing the concocted collusion drama even before Inauguration Day.
The Post first published illegally leaked classified information about former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in early 2017; articles detailing Flynn’s intercepted conversations with the Russian ambassador led to Flynn’s ouster in February 2017.
In April 2017, the Post first revealed the foreign intelligence surveillance warrant on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page. Several unnamed government officials leaked the explosive news that a former Trump campaign advisor was under government surveillance for his suspected ties to the Kremlin. The purpose of the report was to legitimize the rapidly unfolding narrative that the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russians to hijack the 2016 election.
Since then, thousands of articles, columns, and editorials bolstering the hoax have dominated the paper’s website. In fact, Post reporters and editors met with dossier author Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson months before Election Day as they attempted to plant damaging stories about Team Trump’s canoodling with Russians.
After Steele’s name became public in early 2017, the Post routinely portrayed Steele as a trustworthy “former British intelligence officer” just trying to protect Americans from the Putin puppet running for president.
“While Trump has derided the dossier as ‘fake news’ compiled by his political opponents, the FBI’s arrangement with Steele shows that the bureau considered him credible and found his information, while unproved, to be worthy of further investigation,” Post reporters Tom Hamburger and Rosalind Helderman assured readers in February 2017.
(According to Fusion’s new book, Simpson met with Hamburger, a friend and former colleague, in Philadelphia during the July 2016 Democratic National Convention to discuss Steele’s dossier, including the preposterous “golden showers” accusation. “Hamburger reacted with shock,” the Fusion authors wrote. Simpson and Hamburger met again in September 2016 when Fusion organized its pre-election media blitz between reporters and Steele.)
Motes and Beams
The Post, like the rest of the legacy media attempting to bury its collective complicity in perpetrating this massive fraud on the American people, has refused to own up to its animating role in the scheme. So, it’s a little rich that the same paper now is calling out other reporters and news organizations for hyping the dossier.
But considering no other outlet has performed an autopsy on the collusion corpse, the Post’s critique of selected coverage of the most famous dossier in American political history is a welcome condemnation, if late and lacking in self-reflection.
read more here: https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/02/washington-post-vs-the-steele-dossier/