Smitty-48 wrote:There's no such thing as an "Ex-British Spy", once your vetted into MI6, you're MI6 for life, "hired him" is just plausible deniability for the British government, if they got the dossier cooked up by "Ex-MI6", that's the same thing as getting it cooked up by MI6, there is no "Ex", that "private security firm" would just be a front for Vauxall Cross without the British ever having to avow it, thus, they didn't really "hire" anybody, they just went to the British to provide the dossier, so it wouldn't be connected to CIA, they wanted to offshore the source, and dress it up with the "MI6" brand, to make it seem more credible, and to deflect from it being an all inside the Beltway job.
They're not going to say that the source is the CIA, that's hitting too close to home, and the CIA can't be seen to be trying to smear their own CinC, so they say "It's not us, it's the British, MI6 is saying this", because then it's an ostensible "disinterested third party", and they well know that "British Intelligence" carries a certain cachet in America, so they wanted the "MI6" branding on it; "007 says Donald Trump is a Russian Agent".
You think the FISA judge is any less susceptible to the "007" branding? Don't bet on it, judges ain't that different from anybody else.
That's the whole point, that's the seed they were planting, this is not just a partisan smear job coming from a bunch of hacks inside the Beltway, "we're getting this straight from James Bond & Co!"
And it's circular, because first they brand it as "MI6", then the CIA can come out and say "it's not us saying this, but, we can confirm that the person who is saying this, is the real deal, 007" which is what they did.
First you get "British Intelligence" to do the dirty work, then all you have to do is come out and vet the source as being legit; "British Intelligence", and then the shit just sells itself, you don't have to vet the dossier itself, you can remain detached from the contents of the dossier, just vet the source, and then let the contents of the dossier do the damage without having to own it.
Getting a FISA warrent on Carter Page after he comes up on a totally different FBI investigation years ago with Russian spies (who part were jailed and part fled to Russia) talking of Page as a recruited agent isn't so hard.
Besides, here's Carter Page telling Russia Today how US-Russian relations are going to improve (once Trump takes office) and brings up Rosneft and it's leadership, which is at the center of the investigation and allegations now:
(Russia Today,2016) Page also said he was keen for the Russian market to reopen for American investors who had been stopped from doing business by sanctions.
“US and European companies are very interested in returning to the Russian market,” he said. “Their interest cuts across a vast array of sectors.”
“The hostile efforts to punish Rosneft and their senior management team through western sanctions have primarily hurt western companies, rather than their intended target.”
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Russia Today article
Yep, Mr Page isn't the smartest guy around...
