New Documents Reveal Completely Dishonest NY Times Report on Trump, Stone and Manafort Ties to Russia! — GIVE BACK YOUR PULITZER!

On Friday new documents were released by the Senate Judiciary Comittee on the Russia Collusion hoax.

The second set of documents exposes the outlandish New York Times story that the Trump team had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials.” The declassified documents reveal The New York Times reporting was transparently dishonest and an attempt to fuel the Russiagate narrative in its early stages.

The New York Times along with the Washington Post later won Pulitzer Prizes for their junk Trump-Russia collusion reporting that now is confirmed to be factually inaccurate and misleading.

If these outlets had any integrity they’d return their phony prizes.

Here are the documents via Techno Fog:

Annotated New York Times Ar… by Techno Fog on Scribd

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-new-documents-reveal-completely-dishonest-ny-times-report-trump-stone-manafort-ties-russia-give-back-pulitzer/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-new-documents-reveal-completely-dishonest-ny-times-report-trump-stone-manafort-ties-russia-give-back-pulitzer/

Trump Administration Reportedly Considers Reducing US Troop Presence in South Korea

In a similar move, the administration of US President Donald Trump recently approved plans to withdraw 9,500 US troops from Germany, an important US Army base in Europe, arguing that Berlin was failing to live up to its military spending obligations as a NATO partner.

The US Department of Defence has presented the administration of US President Donald Trump with options to cut the US military presence in South Korea after Trump's demand for Seoul to significantly increase payments to Washington for US troops stationed in the country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a Pentagon official.

The US military official reportedly said that the DoD’s Joint Staff had reviewed a reduction of the 28,500 US troops deployed in South Korea, a US military ally since the Korean War in the 1950s, as a part of an extensive plan for repositioning and reducing deployments across the world.

According to the outlet, Trump administration officials refused to provide details on troop reduction plans in the East Asian country, saying that no decision to reduce its military presence has been made.

The idea of a reduction of the US military presence in South Korea was slammed by US lawmakers, with Nebraska GOP Senator Ben Sasse, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, calling the move “strategic incompetence”.

“This kind of strategic incompetence is Jimmy Carter-level weak. Why is this so hard? We don’t have missile systems in South Korea as a welfare program; we have troops and munitions there to protect Americans,” Sasse said in a statement on Friday. “Our aim is to give the Chinese communist leadership and the nuclear nut tyrannizing his North Korean subjects something to think about before they mess with us.”

The disclosure came soon after Trump in late June approved a Pentagon plan to pull 9,500 troops from Germany after he said the country was failing to fulfill its spending obligations as a NATO partner.

The president argued that Berlin only pays 1.4% of its gross domestic product (GDP) toward defence, at the time when the nonbinding NATO standard is 2% of GDP.

The move was met with regret from Berlin, with German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer saying, “We on German soil are also contributing to American Security”.

However, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later said the forces would be redeployed somewhere in Europe to “make sure we’re postured appropriately” to counter China. Trump offered that troops could be sent to bases in Poland, instead.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202007171079919258-trump-administration-reportedly-considers-reducing-us-troop-presence-in-south-korea/

FBI Tore Apart NYT Report On Trump-Russia Contacts In Newly Declassified Memo

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a newly declassified FBI document Friday showing that a New York Times report about contacts between Trump associates and Russian intelligence was riddled with errors.

Peter Strzok, who served as FBI deputy chief of counterintelligence, spotted 14 errors in the Times story, published on Feb. 14, 2017.

Strzok also critiqued Christopher Steele, saying that the dossier author was unable to judge the reliability of his network of sources.

An FBI document released Friday details at least 14 inaccuracies in a New York Times report from early 2017 that leveled shocking allegations of Trump associates’ contacts with Russian intelligence officers.

The document shows then-FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok’s comments on a Feb. 14, 2017 article entitled “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.”

Written by journalists Michael Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo, the story cited four current and former American officials who said that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies had intercepted call records showing that Trump associates had contacts with Russian intelligence in the year prior to the election.

Strzok, who was the lead investigator on the Trump investigation, spotted 14 errors in the article.

The Senate Judiciary Committee released the document on Friday along with a memo of the FBI’s interviews with a key source of information for dossier author Christopher Steele.

“This statement is inaccurate and misleading as written,” Strzok wrote in reference to the lead of the Times story, which said that officials had intercepted calls and obtained phone records of contacts between Russian intelligence officials and individuals associated with Trump.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/17/fbi-strzok-new-york-times-trump-russia/

WTF

Scott Morrison cancels parliamentary sitting over 'significant' COVID-19 risk

The Prime Minister has requested the next Parliamentary sitting period be cancelled due to the risks of coronavirus.

A statement released by Scott Morrison said he has received advice from the country's Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Professor Paul Kelly, advising the upcoming sitting be cancelled.

"The acting CMO has advised that there is significant risk associated with a meeting of Parliament in the context of the increased community transmission of COVID-19 in Victoria and the trends in New South Wales," he said in the statement.

"He advises that, despite proposed mitigation measures, the risks posed by a parliamentary sitting are significantly higher and unlikely to be resolved in the next month."

"The Government cannot ignore the risk to parliamentarians, their staff, the staff within the Parliament, and the broader community of the ACT that holding a parliamentary sitting would create," Mr Morrison said.

According to the statement, the advice from Mr Kelly is "the entry of a high-risk group of individuals could jeopardise the health situation in the ACT and place residents at unnecessary risk of infection."

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-parliament-cancelled-over-significant-risk/cb1e8d45-1f8f-4de2-a9fc-c1b11b14a63d