Years later, Trump dossier still frustrates verification efforts

Translation: NO

This is like waiting for a vehicle at a REALLY BAD repair shop. "Is it ready?" The interminable response is the hallmark of ineptitude and deceit.

NO investigation should drag on so long. This is NOT justice. This is persecution. Unfortunately, the Constitution, recognizing a potential abuse, promises a speedy trial. It doesn´t promise a speedy investigation. After 3 years, and almost NO verification of any parts of it and the statements of the Steele, who assembled it, it is clear it was DESIGNED to be salacious, impenetrable, and unverifiable.

The "investigators" KNOW this yet cannot admit it because the entirety of their efforts rest on the possibility of its veracity. That´s why it was handled the way it was and pushed by so many people and from so many directions. If they admit they strongly suspected it was garbage from the start, what does that say about them. Once they knew it had been requested and paid for by Hillary Inc. and the DNC, they had to KNOW the likelihood of it being factual was approaching ZERO.

Heck, I could whip up a document claiming that Beto is the baby of space aliens and you would never be able to verify it. Part of the difference is the media would immediately mock it into submission instead of helping to sell it.

The Republicans SHOULD have decried it rather than playing silly games asking foolish questions that they KNEW had no good answers. They should have said "As far as I´m concerned, this thing is a really bad work of political fiction and you investigative "experts" have been staring at it for 3 years PRETENDING it has some form of credibility. When do you admit it is a political hit piece and not worth wasting any more effort on?"

Frustrates the MFM´s endless attempts to prop it up, you mean.

Byron, just shut up and go away.

Here´s better info from Dec.2017 regarding dossier...

From Lee Smith via Joel Pollak @ Breitbart: A Tablet investigation using public sources to trace the evolution of the now-famous dossier suggests that central elements of the Russiagate scandal emerged not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government—which are unlikely to exist separate from Russian government control—but from a series of stories that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote for The Wall Street Journal well before Fusion GPS existed, and Donald Trump was simply another loud-mouthed Manhattan real estate millionaire.

Simpson and Jacoby co-wrote a Journal article in April 2007, “How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington.” In it, Smith notes, they identified Paul Manafort as a key player in introducing Russians to Beltway circles. They kept reporting on him over the years. When Manafort was hired to manage the Trump campaign, Simpson — by now running Fusion GPS — made him a focus of his research, and knew enough background information to build a plausible case.

Smith points out that Fusion GPS had few sources within Russia. Nellie Ohr, who also worked with Fusion GPS and happened to be married to a senior official in Obama’s Department of Justice, had not lived in Russia for decades. on the Even former Christopher Steele, the former British spy who was hired to work on the dossier, probably had few good contacts. Simpson’s earlier Journal reporting was probably his best resource. And the CIA and FBI probably had few better sources: as Smith points out, their intelligence on Russia was terrible.

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It´s difficult, no, impossible, to verify a fake dossier.

What can be verified is who paid for it, who wrote it, who all was involved, and how it was improperly used.

It has been verified that the dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary and pushed by McCain.

You can never verify factors that never occurred. Much of the information apparently came through collusion between Christopher Steele and unidentified Russians who were probably connected to the Russian intelligeance and security services who were paid on the side for the information that they supposedly gave Steele. Since the Russians remain unidentified, it is possible that Steele may have invented the unverifiable anti-Trump allegations himself and pocketed the money that he got from the Clinton campaign and the Clintons to pay the Russians.

All that involves collusion between the Clinton campaign and the Clintons with foreigners, both British and Russian, to sabotage the Trump campaign by way of an historic dirty trick, that has continued on with the Mueller Investigation, and by the leftist and liberal Democrats in the Uniparty Congress to sabotage the Trump Administration, by making it as hard as possible for Trump to carry out his presidential duties, especially while trying to negotiate with foreign leaders, when he is being harassed 24/7 by those false allegations.

Of course, it was never intended to drag on this long, IMO. They thought Trump would be run out of office by now.

They are likely stumped as to how Trump has been able to weather this "storm".

Even Comey said they couldn´t verify the dossier, and Steele in a UK trial couldn´t back it up either.

It later became the means to cover up the Clinton "matters", but it seems to have backfired on most of those who were involved as they´ve lost their jobs, been demoted, lost pension, etc...

Fake then, fake now. That´s not going to change.

#8, the libs would then say:

"Yeah, but you can´t prove that the hookers DIDN´T whiz on the bed! Therefore, it happened!"