Dear Lurkers, your fraud is unraveling

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The Sordid History of the Firm Behind the Trump-Russia Dossier
Meet Fusion GPS.

7:15 AM, Jan 12, 2017 |  By Mark Hemingway

Thursday's New York Times has a report on how the highly suspicious dossier alleging that Donald Trump was compromised by Russian intelligence agents came into existence. Among the other interesting revelations was that the dubious opposition research report was put together by the research firm Fusion GPS:

The story began in September 2015, when a wealthy Republican donor who strongly opposed Mr. Trump put up the money to hire a Washington research firm run by former journalists, Fusion GPS, to compile a dossier about the real estate magnate's past scandals and weaknesses, according to a person familiar with the effort. The person described the opposition research work on condition of anonymity, citing the volatile nature of the story and the likelihood of future legal disputes. The identity of the donor is unclear.

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In 2015, Planned Parenthood was stung by a video expose that detailed its involvement in human organ trafficking—organs harvested from the bodies obtained after abortions. Those behind the expose, David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress, knew they would be severely scrutinized so they released dozens of hours of raw footage that their documentary evidence was culled from to show that their reports had not been selectively edited. Nor were they misrepresenting the shocking statements of Planned Parenthood officials.


Nonetheless, Planned Parenthood produced a "forensic report" concluding that the videos had in fact been manipulated. The author of that report was none other than Fusion GPS. If you bothered to read the details of Fusion GPS's report it made some damning concessions, even admitting there was no "widespread evidence of substantive video manipulation." But overall, the report was calculated to be misleading and was nothing but an underhanded PR stunt for Planned Parenthood. Naturally, Fusion GPS's report was uncritically covered by a credulous media. Politico's headline was "Report for Planned Parenthood finds sting videos manipulated." The New York Times went with "Planned Parenthood Videos Were Altered, Analysis Finds." Neither report mentioned the controversy about Fusion GPS's attacks on GOP donors or otherwise suggested the firm had partisan motivations.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-sordid-history-of-the-firm-behind-the-trump-russia-dossier/article/2006254

[SVPete]

Light is shining, and the cockroaches will be scrambling. It would be delicious if the denouement of this one Hate-Trump hoax is the unraveling of a whole bunch of Prog hit-narratives.

[Happy Fun Ball]

So I guess the whole 4chan thing was just a bunch of people trying to take credit for this? Or was someone there somehow involved?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So I guess the whole 4chan thing was just a bunch of people trying to take credit for this? Or was someone there somehow involved?

I can see Fusion GPS not making up the claim out of wholecloth. If they found the claim floating around on the internet they might want to throw it out there under "sources say."

[USA4ME]

Maybe the 4chaners will go after the Fusion GPS people. Seems to me that would be a form of justice with which I could live.

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