[Frage] Do you have personal views on how much of the infamous Steele dossier is true and how much is not true?
[Antwort Clapper] Well, some of what was in the dossier … first of all, I need to make an important point here. We did not use the dossier as a source for the intelligence community assessment, that’s point one. The dossier is not classified or an intelligence document. It’s actually a collection of 17 separate memos. Some of what was in the dossier was actually corroborated -- but separately -- in our intelligence community assessment, from other sources that we were confident in. The salacious parts, no. That’s never been corroborated. It would appear to me that as time has gone on more and more of it has been corroborated, but I can’t actually give you a percentage.
Some of it was valid, and those memos were analogous to something that we do do in the intelligence community, which is "first-instance reporting." Sometimes those reports are right on the money and other times they’re not. The collection of memos in the dossier are sort of like that.
Our only purpose, at least my only purpose for briefing the president-elect [on the dossier] in the "no good deed goes unpunished" department was to let him know it was out there and Jim Comey, the then-director of FBI, was concerned about the Russians. For them, there's an art and science to what they call "Kompromat,” compromising material, whether it's actual or contrived. It doesn’t matter because if they can they’ll use it for leverage. That’s what Director Comey wanted to warn the president-elect about and we tried to do it on as discreet a basis as possible. That’s why at the end we winnowed down [that meeting] to just Director Comey and the president-elect.
https://www.salon.com/2018/05/26/james-clapper-on-donald-trump-edward-snowden-torture-and-the-knowability-of-truth/
salacious and more and more verified.
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In an interview at the Deadline Club, [Lesley] Stahl said she met with the then-candidate in Trump Tower in July 2016.
“And at one point he started to attack the press, and it’s just me and my boss and him … he’s attacking the press and there were no cameras, there was nothing going on,” Stahl said.
"And I said, 'You know that is getting tired, why are you doing this? You are doing it over and over, it’s boring, it’s time to end that. You won the nomination, why do you keep hammering at this?' ”
“And he said, ‘You know why I do it? I do it to demean you all and discredit you all, so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you,’ ” Stahl said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/389526-audio-revealed-from-source-trump-claimed-doesnt-exist
Das kocht im Zusammenhang mit dem Tweet hoch, in dem Trump seinem eigenen senior staffer die Existenz abgesprochen hat, um der New York Times vorzuwerfen, sie habe Meldungen erfunden (s.
#2542).
Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass das ein wörtliches Trump-Zitat ist; aber wenn er überhaupt eine Strategie hat, dann ist es diese.
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Das hier ist übrigens der 333. Tweet aus dem Toddler-Faden von Drezner:
https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/996903198022623232
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