VICTORY: House Intelligence Committee's Final Report Finds No Trump-Russia Collusion
It's now official!
A report put out by the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday has
confirmed that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of collusion between the Russian
government and the Trump campaign.
Effectively putting an end to the fake narrative floated by the Democrat Party to excuse Hillary
Clinton's humiliating loss in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The 253-page report goes on to confirm that the committee found no evidence that the Trump
campaign or Trump himself colluded in any way with the Kremlin in order to steal the
election from the Hillary, The Democrats, of course, objected to the release of the
report.
After the release of the report President Trump quickly took to Twitter:
Although not everything in the report was rosy for President Trump.
It went on to describe poor judgment and ill-considered actions by both the Trump and Clinton campaigns.
Citing the 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
who had promised the Trump campaign damaging intel on the Clinton Campaign.
On the flip side, the committee also found that the Clinton campaign and the DNC used
a series of cutouts and intermediaries to hide their roles as they paid for opposition
research on Trump which was obtained from Russian sources, opposition research that
has since then been completely disproven.
Of course, the Democrats on the House Committee wrote there own 99-page dissent to the official
report.
In this report, they say Republicans did not call key witnesses to testify and failed to
issue the necessary subpoenas to force testimony, adding that the committee hobbled its ability
to conduct a credible investigation which would inspire public trust.
Let's hope this whole Mueller investigation wraps up quickly and the Democrat Party's
false narrative can finally be put to rest.
Here is more information on the fake Trump Dossier via Forbes:
"A former British intelligence officer, who is now a director of a London private
security-and-investigations firm, has been identified as the author of the dossier of
unverified allegations about President-elect Donald Trump's activities and connections
in Russia, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A Christopher Steele, a director of London-based private intelligence company, Orbis, purportedly
prepared the dossier under contract to both Republican and Democratic adversaries of then-candidate
Trump.
The poor grammar and shaky spelling plus the author's use of KGB-style intelligence reporting,
however, do not fit the image of a high-end London security company run by highly connected
former British intelligence figures.
The PDF file of the 30-page typewritten report alleges that high Kremlin officials colluded
with Trump, offered him multi-billion dollar bribes, and accumulated compromising evidence
of Trump's sexual escapades in Russia.
That the dossier comes from former British intelligence officers appears, at first glance,
to give it weight especially with Orbis' claim of a "global network."
The U.S. intelligence community purportedly has examined the allegations but have not
confirmed any of them.
We can wait till hell freezes over.
The material is not verifiable.
President-elect Trump has dismissed the dossier's contents as false as has the Kremlin.
Trump is right: The Orbis dossier is fake news.
I have studied Russia and the Soviet Union professionally since the mid-1960s.
I have visited Russia as a scholar, as the head of a multi-year petroleum legislation
project, and as a business consultant close to one hundred times.
My first visit was in 1965 shortly after Nikita Khrushchev's removal.
I have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Russia, and I follow the Russian press
regularly.
I personally witnessed the creation in the early 90s of Russia's giant energy concerns
in the offices of the oil minister.
I met with St. Petersburg officials in the early 90s but do not remember meeting then
deputy mayor, Vladimir Putin.
I have written and co-authored reports for the State Department, Congress, and the intelligence
community; so I sort of know how these things work.
With the brief exception of the early to late 1990s, Russia has had a non-transparent system
of rule that deliberately reveals little about itself.
Both insiders and outsiders must look for subtle signs and signals.
Russians and Russian experts are gossip junkies.
They recite their tales of who is up and who is down to those foolish enough to listen.
Outside researchers must grasp for flimsy straws to write their scholarly articles and
books.
Despite the greater openness of contemporary Russia, we are back to Kremlinology to learn
how Putin's kleptocracy works.
The Orbis report makes as if it knows all the ins-and-outs and comings-and-goings within
Putin's impenetrable Kremlin.
It reports information from anonymous "trusted compatriots," "knowledgeable sources,"
"former intelligence officers," and "ministry of foreign affairs officials."
The report gives a fly-on-the-wall account of just about every conceivable event associated
with Donald Trump's Russian connections.
It claims to know more than is knowable as it recounts sordid tales of prostitutes, "golden
showers," bribes, squabbles in Putin's inner circle, and who controls the dossiers
of kompromat (compromising information).
There are two possible explanations for the fly-on-the-wall claims of the Orbis report:
Either its author (who is not Mr. Steele) decided to write fiction, or collected enough
gossip to fill a 30-page report, or a combination of the two.
The author of the Orbis report has one more advantage: He knew that what he was writing
was unverifiable.
He advertises himself as the only Kremlin outsider with enough "reliable" contacts
to explain what is really going within Putin's office.
As someone who has worked for more than a decade with the microfilm collection of Soviet
documents in the Hoover Institution Archives, I can say that the dossier itself was compiled
by a Russian, whose command of English is far from perfect and who follows the KGB (now
FSB) practice of writing intelligence reports, in particular the practice of capitalizing
all names for easy reference.
The report includes Putin's inner circle – Peskov, Ivanov, Sechin, Lavrov.
The anonymous author claims to have "trusted compatriots" who knew the roles that each
Kremlin insider, including Putin himself, played in the Trump election saga and were
prepared to tell him.
The Orbis report spins the tale of Putin insiders, spurred on by Putin himself, engaging in a
five-year courtship of Donald Trump in which they offer him lucrative real estate deals
that he rejects but leaves himself open to blackmail as a result of sexual escapades
with prostitutes in St. Petersburg and Moscow (the famous "golden shower" incident).
Despite his reluctance to enter into lucrative business deals, Trump "and his inner circle
have accepted regular intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other
political rivals," according to the Orbis report.
This story makes no sense.
In 2011, when the courtship purportedly begins, Trump was a TV personality and beauty pageant
impresario.
Neither in the U.S. or Russia would anyone of authority anticipate that Trump would one
day become the presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party, making him the
target of Russian intelligence.
The Orbis report claims, that as the election neared (July 2016), Igor Sechin, Putin's
right-hand man and CEO of Rosneft (Russia's national oil company) offered Trump a deal
that defies belief.
I quote:
"Speaking to a trusted compatriot in mid-October 2015, a close associate of Rosneft President
and PUTIN ally Igor SECHIN elaborated on the reported secret meeting between the latter
and Carter PAGE, of US Republican presidential candidate's foreign policy team, in Moscow
in July 2016.
The secret had been confirmed to him/her by a senior member of staff, in addition to the
Rosneft President himself…Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft President was so keen
to lift personal and corporate Western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered PAGE
associates the brokerage of up to a 19 percent (privatized) stake in Rosneft in return PAGE
had expressed interest and confirmed that were TRUMP elected US president, then sanctions
on Russia would be lifted."
This story is utter nonsense, not worthy of a wacky conspiracy theory of an alien invasion.
To offer Trump either the entirety of, or a brokerage commission on, the market value
of 19.5% of Rosneft shares—even a 6 percent commission on $12 billion worth of Rosneft
shares would amount to an astonishing $720 million—would deplete the cash that Putin
desperately needed for military spending and budget deficits, all in return for a promise
to lift sanctions if—and what a big "if"—Trump were elected.
Rosneft, as a public company, would have to conceal that the U.S. president was a party
to this major transaction.
This remarkable secret-of-secrets seems to be bandied about to an Orbis "trusted compatriot,"
a senior member of Sechin's staff, and disclosed by Sechin himself.
I guess there are a lot of loose lips in Rosneft offices.
The story of the purported bribe was picked up by the Russian liberal press directly from
the Orbis report without comment but with a big question marks in the title "A 10.5
billion Euro bribe?
Putin and Sechin gifted Trump 19.5% of Rosneft shares?
This story has given Putin's weak opposition the chance to accuse him of wasting national
treasure on a stupid bribe.
The huge bribe for (perhaps) lifting the sanctions makes Nikita Khrushchev's hare-brained schemes—for
which he was fired—look eminently reasonable.
One of the few verifiable facts in the Orbis report is the key role played by Trump's
"personal lawyer" Michael Cohen.
Cohen purportedly took over the negotiation of the Sechin deal, and, when the Kremlin
got cold feet over its hacking campaign, it turned to Cohen to cover up the operation,
meet with the Kremlin's Presidential Administration, and make illicit payments to shut up and move
the hackers to Bulgaria.
A key meeting was held in Prague in August of 2016 with Cohen accompanied by three colleagues.
The meetings took place in the offices of a Russian quasi-state organization, Rossotrudnichestvo.
Cohen has denied any such meetings with the Kremlin Presidential administration and claims
never to have visited Prague.
According to the Orbis report, Cohen engaged in potential criminal activities, such as
illicit payoffs to hackers and the buying of their silence.
I doubt that he will let such accusations pass.
Another noteworthy claim of the Orbis report is that Vladimir Putin personally directed
Russia's intervention in the 2016 campaign: "The TRUMP operation was both supported
and directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Its aim was to sow discord both within the U.S. itself, but more especially within the
Transatlantic alliance."
The Orbis report claims that Putin personally controlled the dossier compiled on Hillary
Clinton and held by his spokesperson, Peskov.
He ordered that any disposition of the Clinton file would be decided by him personally.
I have picked out just a few excerpts from the Orbis report.
It was written, in my opinion, not by an ex British intelligence officer but by a Russian
trained in the KGB tradition.
It is full of names, dates, meetings, quarrels, and events that are hearsay (one an overheard
conversation).
It is a collection of "this important person" said this to "another important person."
There is no record; no informant is identified by name or by more than a generic title.
The report appears to fail the veracity test in the one instance of a purported meeting
in which names, dates, and location are provided.
Some of the stories are so bizarre (the Rosneft bribe) that they fail the laugh test.
Yet, there appears to be a desire on the part of some media and Trump opponents on both
sides of the aisle to picture the Orbis report as genuine but unverifiable.
After reading the Orbis report I got the queasy feeling that it may have influenced the intelligence
community's unclassified report.
Leaks of classified bits by NBCNews and the Washington Post suggest the findings were,
in part, based on British intelligence and spies.
I wonder if the reference is to Putin's role, which the intelligence report characterized
as direct.
This is a matter the new administration must look into.
We have reached a sad state of affairs where an anonymous report, full of bizarre statements,
captures the attention of the world media because it casts a shadow over the legitimacy
of a President-elect, who has not even taken the oath of office.
For example, the Trump dossier is tonight's lead item on German state television and on
BBC.
False news has become America's international export to the world media."
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