Very Briefly Noted: The FBI Offered Chris Steele $1 Million.
CORRECTION: My bad. I originally said PAID when I should have said OFFERED. It really doesn’t matter. Someone well above Auten’s pay grade had to approve that.
The money was supposed to induce Steele to verify the BS that was the “dossier”. Steele never did provide verification, for the simple reason that there was none. Nevertheless, the “dossier” continued to be used as the predication for the fraudulent FISAs—Andy McCabe said so in so many words. It was also, and very importantly, the predication for Crossfire Hurricane and was, therefore, the basis for the Mueller Witchhunt. It was all a giant fraud. The real question is: Why isn’t Durham prosecuting people in the FBI?
According to reporting today, analyst Brian Auten testified under oath that Steele was paid all that money. Why is Auten testifying to that? Is there anyone out there who actually believes that an FBI analyst has the authority to approve payments to informants? There is a person with a name who approved that $1 million dollar payment and, unlike Steele’s “dossier”, the identity of that person is readily verifiable. I can’t tell you who that person was, but I can tell you that they ranked well above Brian Auten. Why did that person not testify?
I’m disgusted. Now readers should see why I kept yakking about “predication”. This was nothing but a coup, a deliberate crippling of the elected POTUS. I have no reason any longer to believe that Durham has ever intended to reveal the true story.
I may have got one detail wrong. It seems Steele was OFFERED that money, but was unable to collect? Doesn't matter.
I had high hopes for Durham, but I had high hopes for Bill Barr, too. I’m so sick and disgusted with all of the posturing, pretending and prevaricating from people in Washington who are supposed to be the “real deal”. They are all as phony as a three dollar bill and as useless as tits on a boar hog.
Sorry, pretty bummed today.