OMG. Tom Cotton just asked Director Wray --

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if Steele had been PAID by Oleg Deripaska, the Russian tycoon who is close to Putin. Wray said there might be more to say about that in this afternoon's closed session. He said -- forget who had sent a letter to Deripaska's London attorney asking that question.

I can't believe the conspiracy stories these guys are coming up with.

[cilla4progress]

1. Are you or they intimating

he was??? I don't believe it, but sounds like the impression they gave, from your post?

[lapfog_1]

5. Tom Cotton - (T - stupidity ) implied it with his leading question

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6. Yes, why ask the question otherwise?

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. They are at war with America...I wish we understood that

[lapfog_1]

3. and of course the russians will confirm payments to Steele

anything to undermine the dossier.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. They do this to muddy the waters. Their base loves these stories because it reinforces what

they already believe. Then, while debate rages on about what is the truth and who did what to whom, the real story is ignored.

[cilla4progress]

7. Well, I wonder if he was saying this afternoon's closed session is to discuss

The dossier, or payments?

[RandomAccess]

8. I think it's just to discuss a bunch of classified things

but I don't have first-hand knowledge of that, having tuned in just in time to see Cotton's dangerous inanity.