"Dead men tell no tales" is the motto of ruthless and bloodthirsty miscreants throughout history.  And if the court papers filed by lawyers for the Democratic National Committee are correct, we will never hear what London-based Professor Joseph Mifsud had to say about how and why he set up George Papadopoulos with the information that Russia had "dirt" on the Hillary Clinton campaign.  Papadopoulos later passed along this information from Mifsud to Alexander Downer, at the time Australia's ambassador to Britain, at a fashionable London wine bar.  Downer passed this along, and it became a critical piece of evidence in the FBI opening a counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign at the end of July 2016. Image credit Deviant Art. John Bowden reports in The Hill: DNC lawyers wrote in court filings Friday that Joseph Mifsud, who spoke to Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential election, "is...(Read Full Post)