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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 the President-elect. 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 the President-elect. 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.

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 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.

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.