The US intelligence community hit a new credibility low when it saw fit to draft a two-page summary of a 35-page document on the alleged "capture" of president-elect Donald Trump by the Kremlin, reportedly compiled by a "former British Intelligence official", and presented it to both President Barack Obama and Trump. The document, allegedly compiled for some of Trump’s Republican Party opponents in the primaries, has reportedly been circulating at the highest levels of the US government and media for some months now, but had not been quoted given its unverifiable status. Even the Hillary Clinton campaign avoided its use. However, the US intelligence community saw fit to use the report to bolster the propaganda war being waged against Trump by the US establishment and mainstream media, to desperately prove that he is Putin’s lapdog. Having already failed to prove conclusively that Russia hacked the Democratic Party’s servers (the party refused to hand the servers over to the FBI for ...
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