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hat's a big deal, a big deal for deals. It's days away from finalization. So it's not done done, but it looks like it's going to happen. And I think what it does is allow a US company that has not been yet named to be a major player in exploiting the oil that Pakistan has. So that sounds positive. Every one of these trade deals and that oil deal I say to myself nobody thought of this before. It f…

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as the explainer? Oh my god, you wouldn't know anything. You need X and all the commenters who have a different angle on stuff before you can actually get a 3D picture of what's going on. So Sean Davis is especially good at explaining stuff. And I just want to read you his counter to Brennan and Clapper saying, "Well, we didn't do anything wrong. You just don't understand what we did versus what we're accused of. And once you understood it, well, then you'd see we didn't do anything wrong."

So Sean Davis says in their latest op-ed in the New York Times, Brennan and Clapper claim that the bogus Steele dossier was not included or referenced in the infamous 2016-2017 intelligence report the ICA falsely alleging that Putin stole the election from Hillary. So this is what Brennan and Clapper said in their op-ed. They said we have testified under oath and the reviews the assessments have confirmed that the dossier was not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions. Now, that's the most important thing because apparently it's easy to demonstrate that they did not have credibility. So we know that the report did not have credibility. We also know that Brennan and Clapper didn't think it was credible. So they were aware it wasn't credible. So if they did not include it in the reports, then that's fine, right? But what if they just lied about that?

Okay, so here's what Sean Davis tells us. He goes, "So not only did Brennan and Clapper use the Steele dossier in the ICA, which would be the opposite of what they just said they did, they produced separate versions of the ICA to hide their tracks. Oh, so they can claim that they didn't do it because there are two and they'll just talk about the one that doesn't have it." They lied to Congress about what they did, knowing that Congress only had access to the version of the document that comported with their lies. Sean Davis, good job. They leaked Steele dossier lies to media to inject the claims into the public bloodstream. Well, I don't know if we know the path of leaking, but that's the accusation. And then continued to lie about what they did for the next nine years, including in this op-ed. Including in this op-ed, which means the statute of limitations has not run out because they're still doing it this week. And the statute of limitations starts counting when they stop doing things that are the thing you're accusing them of. This would suggest that they're still doing the hoax.

If Sean Davis is correct in his analysis, in the secret non-public version of the ICA, four bullet points were listed in support of the key judgment. So there's one version of the report that referred to the Steele document very specifically said we're looking at these things. The fourth was sourced directly to the Steele dossier annex. But in the versions of the ICA provided to Congress and the public, the fourth bullet citing the Steele dossier and the annex itself were removed from the document without a trace. All footnotes to cited material were also removed. So if you removed all the footnotes to it, it didn't happen by itself. That sort of if you see the turtle on the fence post, it didn't get there by itself. And Sean Davis says they are clearly engaged in an ongoing criminal conspiracy to cover up their crimes and they deserve to be held accountable for what they did and continue to do to the country.

And I guess The Federalist has a big story today that a whistleblower who called shenanigans on the claims in that ICA report was threatened for refusing to sign on to the false claims. So this is what I've been waiting for. I've been waiting for the whistleblowers because you know there's people there who have their lips up to the whistle and they're just thinking I so want to talk about this. I really really want to talk about this but you know my career would be over if I do and it probably will be.

Well, Mollie Hemingway, also of The Federalist, says the Obama team is acting absolutely terrified about being held accountable for the Russia collusion hoax, and I couldn't be happier about it. Now, she has better

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sources than most of us, so I don't know that they're being terrified, but when I saw Brennan being asked about it on MSNBC, he looked terrified to me. Now, that may have been my bias because I expected him to be terrified, so maybe I just imagined it. Could have just imagined it. But I would love to know what they're saying behind closed doors. I will note that Trump is torturing them like a cat…

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