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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this a credible source? Bombshell - Look Who Bribed the FBI to Investigate Hillarys Email
During the Election.
http://www.learnprogress.org/bribed-fbi-investigate-hillary/?utm_medium=push&utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=onesignal
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One of the main FBI agents who made a fuss about Hillary Clintons emails has been discovered to have been on Michael Flynns payroll at the time. This is DIRECT evidence that Flynn was responsible for trumping up the fake Clinton emails scandal in the days before the election.
So heres what we know so far. Just days before the election, a conservative whistleblower in the FBI alleged that Patrick Kennedy, a top Obama official, had offered perks to the FBI in exchange for having some of Hillary Clintons emails de-classified.
The conservative angle here is clear. To them, Kennedy was trying to cover up Clintons email scandal by offering a bribe.
Too bad the whistleblower in question, Brian McCauley, admitted that the whole story was manufactured garbage. He said as much to the New York Times when he revealed his identity and the truth.
So there you have McCauley openly admitting that he put out a fake story to the American people. But in a REAL horrifying twist, breaking reports indicate that McCauley was also on disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynns payroll when he spread his fake anti-Clinton narrative.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Perhaps Village Voice or McClatchy article?
I will look.
malaise
(269,256 posts)Lock her UP - LOCK THEM ALL UP.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)NY Field office.
Article here
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/03/27/fbi-cant-tell-trump-russia/
Author is former writer at Village Voice
malaise
(269,256 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)There are other stories on McCauley
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Ship them all of to Siberia where republican traitors can hang with their evil empire russian BFFs.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)malaise
(269,256 posts)She did add this connection
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Sienna86
(2,150 posts)If not, he's gone from the FBI.
PDittie
(8,322 posts)No date on the piece linked. Way too much bombast in the headlines on other articles at home page. Has an embedded ad getting past my blocker and an "allow notifications" popup.
I avoid bombshells like they were actual bombs these days. YMMV.
The referral code at the end of the NYT URL in the OP -- from late October last year -- has "theproudliberal.org" sourced, which seems like the same kind of confirmation-biased website that "learn progress.org" is. These two sites are exchanging links and traffic to build up their hits for lowbrow advertising.
Here's the NYT link, with the referral source code at the end stripped out. Read it -- particularly the correction at the very end -- and compare to the opinion piece from Learn Progress.
My humble O is that there is some lingering smoke but no actual fire here.
malaise
(269,256 posts)Thanks - some of the other links posted by sharedvalues were also helpful.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Wall to wall ads.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)But nothing in the excerpt seems to indicate that he gave "the FBI" anything. I took one look at the website and refused to read it, so all I'm going off is the excerpt. I suspect this is loosely grounded in truth with some made up stuff to attract clicks.