Redacted Russiagate docs show the feds are STILL lying about Trump and their putsch attempt

The feds are still lying and obfuscating about the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: Witness the recent release, years late and heavily redacted, of a document about the origin of the FBI probe.  This comes to light thanks only to the dogged efforts of the folks at RealClearInvestigations.The biggest thing the Bureau is still hiding: The “articulable factual basis” on which its 2017 probe of Trump’s alleged role as a Russian intelligence asset was legitimated. Yes, it’s been obvious for years that there was no factual basis for the probe. But to see why that’s precisely the issue, and why the Bureau needs to fully come clean, take a look at the whole sordid history ..

..In 2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign (then desperate to distract from her illegal use of a private email server to illegally share classified documents) pays ex-spy Christopher Steele to gin up false allegations that her rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, was working with Russia.  He in turn pays an “assistant” to imagine some dirt; those lies — collated into the now infamous Steele Dossier — are used to justify a probe into Trump’s campaign. Clinton escapes any legal pain for her email violations after FBI Director James Comey recommends against prosecution; Trump wins the 2016 race under a cloud of baseless suspicion, which a left-leaning media establishment adds to and amplifies. In November 2016, the FBI gives Steele the boot as a source; in January 2017, Steele’s lead fabricator Igor Danchenko tells the FBI that there was “zero” corroboration for the dossier’s claims and that the Russia-Trump rumors he’d passed along to Steele came from “word of mouth and hearsay.” In May 2017, Trump fires Comey; mere days later, the FBI reopens contact with Steele — whom it now knows to be 100% discredited — and launches a new probe, the one the RCI team targeted with its FOIA demand. That probe was launched by then-Acting Director Andrew McCabe a...