Could the story behind the "Trump dossier" be the Rosetta Stone of Russian manipulation of our electoral process in 2016?  There is a strong and justifiable suspicion that the dossier was the critical bit of evidence that persuaded the FISA Court to reverse itself and permit monitoring of American associates of Donald Trump.  The dossier was originally begun as an opposition research project for Republican rivals of Trump, then funded by Democrats, and allegedly finally funded by the FBI.  We already know that some of the wild accusations in it were demonstrably false. The House Intelligence Committee long has been looking into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and so far, it has come up with nothing.  As in zero specific evidence.  This was admitted by no less than Rep. Jackie Spier, a veteran Democrat member of the House of Representatives. It is obviously worth investigating, then, how that dossier came to...(Read Full Post)