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John Brennan attached Hillary Clinton's unverified opposition research to the official Presidential Daily Briefing book for Obama. Obama ordered two pages, the "pee-pee" memo, to be shared with Trump. Obama already had Trump under surveillance as an "agent of a foreign power." The special classified briefing for the President-elect was then leaked by James Clapper to the Washington media, allowing them to use briefing the President-elect as a news story (a "news hook") to justify reporting unsubstantiated smears which, by ordinary journalistic standards, would otherwise prevent the media from publishing uncorroborated garbage.

John Brennan attached Hillary Clinton's unverified opposition research to the official Presidential Daily Briefing book for Obama. Obama ordered two pages, the "pee-pee" memo, to be shared with Trump. Obama already had Trump under surveillance as an "agent of a foreign power." The special classified briefing for the President-elect was then leaked by James Clapper to the Washington media, allowing them to use briefing the President-elect as a news story (a "news hook") to justify reporting unsubstantiated smears which, by ordinary journalistic standards, would otherwise prevent the media from publishing uncorroborated garbage.

When CNN broke the story of the dossier's sensational allegations co-written by Evan Perez - a friend and former colleague of FusionGPS principal Glenn Simpson, it cleared the way for ''BuzzFeed'' to publish the entire dossier, and signaled that the intelligence community was implementing the "insurance policy". This completed a circular echo chamber, binding the intelligence community - chartered to steal and keep secrets, to the media - embodying the right to free speech.

When CNN broke the story of the dossier's sensational allegations co-written by Evan Perez - a friend and former colleague of FusionGPS principal Glenn Simpson, it cleared the way for ''BuzzFeed'' to publish the entire dossier, and signaled that the intelligence community was implementing the "insurance policy". This completed a circular echo chamber.

Russiagate was no longer part of Hillary Clinton's political campaign directed at Trump, it was now a [[disinformation]] operation aimed at the American public, as the pre-election media coverage resonated more fully with the ''Steele dossier'' in the open. You see, said the [[mainstream media]]: everything we published about Trump and Putin is really true—there’s a document proving it. What the press corps neglected to add is that they’d been reporting the same talking points and innuendo from the same opposition research since before the election, and were now parroting the same “evidence” to prove it was true.

Russiagate was no longer part of Hillary Clinton's political campaign directed at Trump, it was now a [[disinformation]] operation aimed at the American public, as Fusion's pre-election [[leak]]s resonated more fully with the ''Steele dossier'' in the open. What the press corps neglected to add is that they’d been reporting the same talking points and innuendo from the same opposition research, and were now parroting the same “evidence” to prove it was true.

On Tuesday January 10, 2017, CNN stated President-elect Trump was briefed on the ''Clinton-Steele dossier''.  An hour later Buzzfeed published the dossier. The next day, Wednesday January 11, Trump said he was not briefed on the dossier.  NBC confirmed Trump wasn’t briefed.  Fox News confirmed Trump wasn’t briefed. Later that night Wednesday January 11, DNI James Clapper issued a press statement noting that he had just now briefed President-elect Trump on the dossier moments before. Clapper's press release stated, “The [[IC]] has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable," yet Clapper's intelligence community used that same dossier with no other evidence to obtain a FISA warrant for direct surveillance of the Trump campaign three months earlier. The fact the "evidence" originated as a political smear campaign from the Clinton campaign and Democratic party was never told to the FISA court.

On Tuesday January 10, 2017, CNN stated President-elect Trump was briefed on the ''Clinton-Steele dossier''.  An hour later Buzzfeed published the dossier. The next day, Wednesday January 11, Trump said he was not briefed on the dossier.  NBC confirmed Trump wasn’t briefed.  Fox News confirmed Trump wasn’t briefed. Later that night Wednesday January 11, DNI James Clapper issued a press statement noting that he had just now briefed President-elect Trump moments before. Clapper's press release stated, “The [[IC]] has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable," yet Clapper's intelligence community used that same dossier with no other evidence to obtain a FISA warrant for surveillance of the Trump campaign three months earlier. The fact the "evidence" originated as a political smear campaign from the Clinton machine and Democratic party was never told to the FISA court or the public.

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*'''1 January.''' ''Washington Post'' retracts [[fake news]] story about Russian hacking into the power grid; however, slanders, speculation, and innuendo about "hacking the vote" and Trump-Putin relations remain unretracted.<ref>http://nypost.com/2017/01/01/washington-post-retracts-story-about-russian-hack-at-vermont-utility/</ref>

*'''1 January.''' ''Washington Post'' retracts [[fake news]] story about Russian hacking into the power grid; however, slanders, speculation, and innuendo about "hacking the vote" and Trump-Putin relations remain unretracted.<ref>http://nypost.com/2017/01/01/washington-post-retracts-story-about-russian-hack-at-vermont-utility/</ref>