In what will probably be remembered as a footnote in the Congressional inquiries into the credibility of the infamous "Trump dossier", the mysterious Republican anti-Trump group that retained opposition research firm Fusion GPS during the Republican primary has finally been revealed.
And surprisingly, it wasn't John McCain, the RNC or the Cruz campaign. It was...the Washington Free Beacon? The conservative website reportedly told a Congressional panel that it paid Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump during the primary, but asked it to stop in May 2016 when it became apparent that Trump would be the nominee. The DNC and Clinton campaigns, through lawyer Marc Elias, contracted Fusion to dig into Trump's background in April 2016, which is when the real work that led to the dossier's creation began.
The Free Beacon famously is funded in large part by New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer of Elliott Management Corp. Singer strongly opposed Trump during the primary. The conservative-leaning news website confirmed its relationship with Fusion in a post published Friday night. In the post, the Free Beacon explained that it had withdrawn its financial support before former British spy Christopher Steele was brought on to begin the research that led to the dossier. The Free Beacon also paid to fund opposition research into other candidates besides Trump.
Lawyers for the conservative publication Washington Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee Friday that the organization was the original funder for the anti-Trump opposition research project with Fusion GPS.
The Free Beacon funded the project from the fall of 2015 through the spring of 2016, whereupon it withdrew funding and the project was picked up by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The original arrangement between the Free Beacon and Fusion GPS involved opposition research into multiple Republican candidates, not just front-runner Donald Trump.
Sources close to the Free Beacon stress that the project, when the Free Beacon funded it, had nothing to do with Russia and did not involve Christopher Steele, the former British spy who gathered anti-Trump dirt in Russia. Steele was retained by Fusion GPS when the project was funded by Democrats, and not in its initial phase, when the Free Beacon was involved.
The Free Beacon has a history of employing so-called opposition research firms to assist in news articles critical of targets ranging from Mr. Trump to Mrs. Clinton, according to the New York Times.
The Beacon of hope put Hillary over the interests of the Amerikan people. Boycott the assholes!
Paul Singer made over $500 million from the FDA giving Pharma URL, his generic drug company, a monopoly ("exclusivity") on colchicine in 2010. Colchicine (brand name Colchys) went from a nickel a pill to $5 a pill, all based on fraudulent drugs trials that may have killed some of the participants. Colchicine is a thousand year old treatment for gout. Singer did not even say "thank you" to Obama for getting the FDA to approve this criminal windfall.
Now this is the kind of "opposition research" I can appreciate ..
The Washington Free Beacon is the same outfit that ran with the photos of the "Russian tanks in the Ukraine" that senator Jim Inhofe gave them in 2015.
The only problem was that the Russian tanks shown were in Georgia, not the Ukraine, and it was in 2008.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-13/thirst-war-sen-inhofe-releases-...
https://www.rt.com/news/232067-fake-photos-russian-army/
Thanks, neocons, usual suspects, yellow cake, tanks, nuclur threats, babies, incubators, be afraid, send money and arms etc. etc ..
Fuck them all ..
Problem is, they're fucking everybody else .. you know, the rest of humanity ..
There are NO cleans hands in these sordid affairs, none ...
I'm squarely against the demorat neocons AND the repubican neocons, which is just about everybody !
Gee another Jew, go figure.
someone check the flight records of the Lolita Express for executives of the Beacon
its all a bunch of dirtbags hiring other dirtbags....
Gee another Jew, go figure.
Jews don't self limit themselves. Their guiding principles are "what's in it for me," and how can I have paradise on earth. The paradise is for me, my tribe, my ingroup at the expense of others. Immorality is coded into their guiding principles.
Don't take my word for it, listen to the Rabbi instead:
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=159601
It's proof the Democrat vs. Republican is an illusion. There is only The One Party, and the Deep State is in control.
Paul Singer also made billions off the Argentinian debt crisis.
Vulture in human form.
SHIT in HIS MOUTH
Am I the only one that keeps reading their name as Free Bacon? Free bacon sounds yummy.
I read that too. Reading all this buggery messes up one's eyes.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
(((every))) (((single))) (((time)))
Op research consumers want the focus to be on the candidates’ personal lives so that no real, economic change challenges the status quo that is lucrative for them. Until the last minute, none of them picked up on in the fact that the old, Nineties-style, gotcha manipulation is not working anymore. Social mores have shifted so much that people, including all of the so-called nice family people, are no longer shocked. In this era of mass underemployment, most voters cannot afford to put that kind of gossip about candidates’ personal lives first even if they wanted to. Republicans are developing a new kind of culture-war diversion, hoping voters will not notice the neoliberal/Third Way/Uniparty/Establishment details in their policy proposals.
Join Matt Dubiel, a radio talk-show host together with guest Marshall Sylver on the 'mainstream media construct' and how they're working your mind to your detriment. Recorded on 10/23/17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jg6MbQIbVY
Note, the full program is 32-minutes, however, if you're short on time and want the punch lines, scroll-in at about 9:45 for the "meat and potatoes" - but I highly recommend watching the entire clip.
It's not an illusion there are real on both sides but there is also the CIA controlled factions on bothsides that now weild the most power. Bush Sr was the first person to run for vice president. He knew it was his path to the presidency. CIA spook. Once Nixon was outed there was a power shift. CLINTONS CIA , Why do you think the Bushes love them so much. Barbara Bush considers Bill Clinton a Son for pucks sake.
Birds of a feather, flock together ..
"Barbara Bush considers Bill Clinton a Son for pucks sake."
Wasn't there some kid who demonstrated using geneology that all the presidents except a couple could trace their lineage to King John Plantagenet? So maybe not her "son" technically speaking, but related just the same.
We'll never have justice or peace until these people are rounded up, and sent to the gulags they belong in. I used to think that at least a large minority of them were good people, but it's become pretty obvious that there can't be more than a handful of decent people in Washington, if any. I could probably count them off on my fingers, and still have enough left to throw a baseball with either hand.
Well pointed out Shemp. Everything, repeat EVERYTHING, that comes from .gov or their 'think' tanks etc needs to be treated as a lie until proven otherwise.
One can probably use logic/deduction to figure out what the truth is.
What does the government say the truth is?
The likely truth is the opposite of this pronouncement/meme/narrative.
One example (I could go on for pages):
Government:
"North Korea is a grave threat to America ..."
Ah, we can now deduce the real truth:
"North Korea is no threat whatsoever to America"
The best lies always have a component of truth. If the government was having opposite day, everyday, it'd be far too easy for the truth to come out. That's why I don't like complicated conspiracy theories built on nothing but minor inconsistencies in the story, because if you don't know why, you can't know the truth.
Michael Goldfarb, one of the founders of the Washington Free Beacon, got started as a pupil of Willian Kristol and worked for John McCain's presidential campaign:
"A member of an up-and-coming generation of Republican activists who have eschewed traditional avenues to prominence, Goldfarb's career was "spawned," according to the New York Times, "in the conservative confines of the Weekly Standard and allied organizations, namely the Project for the New American Century, which is well known for promoting the war in Iraq. He has since gone on to thrive in the influential world of outside ideological groups."[1]
A former online editor for the Weekly Standard and blogger for John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign—where he was hired to "attack the press," as he put it[2]—Goldfarb has also served as an adviser to advocacy groups like William Kristol's Emergency Committee for Israel and Liz Cheney's Keep America Safe.
Goldfarb has served as vice president of Orion Strategies—a lobbying firm headed by former John McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann—and was a research associate for the now-defunct Project for the New American Century, a letterhead group founded by Robert Kagan and William Kristol that helped spearhead efforts to push for the invasion of Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/goldfarb_michael/
[Edit] The other cofounder of the Washington Free Beacon is Mathew Continetti and is married to William Kristol's daughter:
"William Kristol is on the board of the Center for American Freedom Matthew Continetti is married to Anne Elizabeth Kristol, the daughter of neo-con William Kristol.In summer 2002 he did a Collegiate Network internship at the National Review, where he worked as a research assistant for Rich Lowry"
https://wideawakegentile.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/washington-free-beacon...
This outfit is nothing more than a newly spawned Neocon appendage.
You got that right.
Stsrt constructing the gallows
The neocons have won anyway. Trump, with his push for far greater military spending, expanding the nuclear arsenal, putting generals and goldmanites in charge of the USG , kissing Netanyahu's ring every chance he gets, escalating conflicts with Iran and North Korea, while increasing U.S. involvement in the Middle East, is the neocons' wet dream.
From the Times of Israel:
"Donald Trump’s victory seems to be a dream come true for the Israeli prime minister. The president-elect has repeatedly vowed to unconditionally back the Jewish state in any possible way: he promised not to try to force a solution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; slammed the Iranian nuclear deal; pledged to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and removed the two-state solution from the Republican party platform.
Netanyahu also knows and appreciates the vice-president-elect, Mike Pence, who has a long record of support for Israel."
How much damn corruption can a human witness before she collapses?! She being me.
Also, Bill Kristol developed the Washington Free Beacon. Right there is all I need to know. Fat fugly freak Kristol and his K Street wannabes.
Junction, thanks and I just cringed at my personal experience with Singer's windfall from his little colchicine adventure. A drug, which my prescribing doctor tought would help, went from $5/week to $600/month.
This has been discussed on ZH before, but I remain convinced that the congress-critter most responsible is still the esteemed Orin Hatch.
Singer's company is URL Pharma, not Pharma URL (oops). Hatch received $38,750 in campaign contributions from Elliott Management in the current election cycle, #16 on Hatch's contributor list. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cycle=2014&...
Before 2010, Elliott did not give a dime to Senator Hatch.
https://shadowproof.com/2014/04/16/the-neocon-money-machine/
I asked my doctor to give me allopurinal and he said they don't use that anymore. He wrote me a scrip for some ridiculous amount of oxycontins, and said I could just walk on it. He also said I would have it for life. I disregarded his every word and it went away by not eating fast food, and quitting vodka. It has not come back since. This guy put the investigation into Trump because he campaigned messing with healthcare, which is bad for his business.
Meh.
Whatever happened to Susan Rice and unmasking?
What happened - No one dared to take the mask off!
Don't touch that mask.
Fuck boycott, they should hang!
Boycott Free Beacon: let them know how you feel.
Let's shut these fuckers down.
comments@freebeacon.com
Swamp
yep, sausage makers
starting to think there are moar slimmmy fukwade republicans in thee ol swamp...
one party tyranny for money...
corrupt cuksukers...
singer. fukwade...
I smell BS
hogs aren't bulls... they're meant for slaughter
They must have known it would come out, and soon.
Nonetheless, they didn't stall for a year and get their attorney to lie about it repeatedly, and indignantly, whenever asked about it. That's how the Clintons and the DNC roll. Not crazy about their approach to political reporting, but still a *relatively* classy move on their part.
I've always thought the WFB was frequently hyper negative about everything.
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lawered up to the gills and won't spend a second behind bars. fuksticks...
don't cha' know.
I bet someone with a shit-pot of money but not much energy is around here somewhere.
Watched how it played out tonight, Friday 10/271/7.
ABC, virulent self immolating anti Trumpisms at all costs. No mention of Hilary difficulties....hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Lester fucking Holt on NBC, totally different focus on international news, actually good news cast. CBS, tuned into a piece part way through and it was a Trump suck up piece, kind of embarrassing but heartwarming nonetheless.
Local news, played the Hilary difficulties. They fucking punted for Friday Night Football.
Victory, TRUMP.
NeoCon rag founded by (((the usual suspects))).
They still have more integrity in their little pinky than the commie NYT's will ever have. They just demonstrated it.
Integrity is not the operative word here ..
If you would have thrown moral in there, I might have pissed myself laughing ..
;)