The problem with Manafort is that all his nefarious activity happened with Podesta and Democrats, and they had no good reason to ‘reopen’ that case (until the forged ‘black ledger’ was ‘discovered’ in Ukraine conveniently).
Nevertheless, Fusion GPS owner Glen Simpson had already written an article that included Manafort in 2007 (as oppo publicity to smear Manafort when he ran McStain’s campaign), and he had the most (pretty much the only) connections to dirty Russians that could allow a line to be drawn to Trump. But they didn’t want to make him the actual raison d’etre for ‘Crossfire Hurricane’.
Their solution was to go ahead and use the old article for the meat of the dossier, and then just include other Trump members into the dossier allegations, and start the investigation on the others, and the two best candidates were Papadopolous and Page.
Problem was, Page had already helped the CIA against Russia (and therefore was on record as a willing source of trusted info, negating a justifiable need to minimize privacy intrusions in counter intelligence rules) and Papadopolous didn’t have any believable network of Russian contacts. So they just forged a memo to say Page wasn’t a CIA asset, and then claimed that Page and Papadopolous were somehow working together to allow one to use the other’s contacts (without evidence, of course).
They needed something “new” in the case to justify getting a search warrant. Best of all, they didn’t actually cite the fraudulent ‘black ledger’, they cited reporting about it.
The problem with Manafort is that all his nefarious activity happened with Podesta and Democrats, and they had no good reason to ‘reopen’ that case (until the forged ‘black ledger’ was ‘discovered’ in Ukraine conveniently).
Nevertheless, Fusion GPS owner Glen Simpson had already written an article that included Manafort in 2007 (as oppo publicity to smear Manafort when he ran McStain’s campaign), and he had the most (pretty much the only) connections to dirty Russians that could allow a line to be drawn to Trump. But they didn’t want to make him the actual raison d’etre for ‘Crossfire Hurricane’.
Their solution was to go ahead and use the old article for the meat of the dossier, and then just include other Trump members into the dossier allegations, and start the investigation on the others, and the two best candidates were Papadopolous and Page.
Problem was, Page had already helped the CIA against Russia (and therefore was on record as a willing source of trusted info, negating a justifiable need to minimize privacy intrusions in counter intelligence rules) and Papadopolous didn’t have any believable network of Russian contacts. So they just forged a memo to say Page wasn’t a CIA asset, and then claimed that Page and Papadopolous were somehow working together to allow one to use the other’s contacts (without evidence, of course).
I'd really like to see Podesta's Immunity Agreement.
It just screams at me "They told Al Capone to roll over on the busboy for a dime bag for total immunity" sort of thing.
They needed something “new” in the case to justify getting a search warrant. Best of all, they didn’t actually cite the fraudulent ‘black ledger’, they cited reporting about it.
‘Cause, gotta stay honest, right?