I already read it man

Ah fair

Anything you saw

FBI used a known-to-be-fake dossier fabricated by someone on the DNC's payroll to acquire a FISA surveillance warrant on Trump and co.

THat I just saw there.

WHich one btw, the pissgate one?

The exact one.

Lol, that one shouldnt have flown

Trumps a damn Mysophobe

You think someone like him is going to let some russian hooker piss on a mattress?

It didn't fly

DIdnt stop the media from parading it anyway.

The feds KNEW it was fake, still used it, and STILL GOT THE WARRANT.

eww they fucking used yahoo news as a source

And best of all

So now the heat should be on the feds and the ones giving out the warrant?

The guy that was building the dossier

Hmm it did mention Yahoo in the memo

Steele?

Was the guy leaking it in the first place

SO a situation of the X investigated X and found no wrongdoing?

Nah something else

A situation of Y citing X citing Y,.

Citogenesis?

It's a clear and cut example of how 'anonymous sources' should never be used, ever.

I think thats a word

Yeah, it is

Thing is people argue that leaked docs to wikileaks and whistleblowers are "anonymous sources"

The people doing the leaking I mean

Its more of a matter of how much you trust the publication.

I kinda trust Wikileaks to rely on anonymous whistleblowers, but dont trust CNN for their anonymous sources

Wikileaks doesn't do anonymous sources either, you do have to verify your identity with WL.

Wikileaks has also built up a reputation of not publishing lies

That too

If you can’t prove to them what you have is fact, they won’t publish it

Sure Wikileaks may not publish everything, sure they may be biased and target specific groups with leaks, but you can be certain that anything they do choose to publish is true

There may be more to the story than what’s published through them, but what is published is true.

It’s up to the reader to determine if what’s left out is left out because of Wikileaks’ biases or because Wikileaks didn’t want to make a claim it wasn’t 100% sure of

😠

So its more of our trust of the publisher, not the presence of an anonymous source.

My point is, that we all trust WL to verify them, files and the person doing the leak.