Clarice!-----A Night at the Crying in Our Beer Salon

A Night at the Crying in Our Beer Salon
"I couldn't take much more of the news.  
The miscreants reportedly involved in the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign were fleeing the FBI; parties in the intelligence agencies were contradicting one another with sloppily conceived alibis.  
On top of that, the agencies involved looked both more stupid and more partisan than ever.  
The latest was the New York Times account of how the CIA paid Russians a $100,000 down payment on a million-dollar contract to tar the President (doubtless with disinformation).  
The viewing of the promised "compromising video" was – get this – in a room in the Russian Embassy in Berlin:

A Russian was trying to sell the alleged Trump kompromat to [U.S.] spies.  He even showed off a 15-second clip of a video that he claimed showed Trump in a room with two women.  The choice of venue for the viewing: [t]he Russian embassy in Berlin ‪

To be sure, the paper's Matthew Rosenberg offered up an alibi.  
Sharyl Attkisson tweeted:

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Ace of Spades had some fun dissecting the "'splaining and spinning" published by Rosenberg:

Note [that] this story is going to claim [that] the CIA paid to get their own stolen cyber weapons/hacking tools back and this Russian just insisted on offering dirt on Trump they didn't want.

That's absurd.  How do you buy back your own cyber tools?  You already have the tools; the problem is that other people have them, and paying someone to send you a copy does nothing at all to stop him from selling other copies forever, to who[m]ever he wants.

No, this is about the Trump dirt, and the cyber weapon thing is the cover story. ...

Yeah, you thought you were buying stolen cyber tools, which cannot be bought back (and you already have them), but these guys just kept forcing this faked-up Trump dirt on you.

This cover story is the same as paying a blackmailer to "get back" a compromising photo, even though he still retains the negative and you have no idea how many copies he's already made, or how many people he's already sold them to, or how many additional prints he'll make off the negative.

No, they paid $100,000 (as a down payment for a $1 million payout) to get dirt on Trump before an election, and the "cyber tools" claim is just a cover story, a legend.

Another lie. 

...As the Daily Caller writes, the Steele dossier's coincidences keep piling up. 

In sum: Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson met before and after the Russian lawyer, connected to his client, met with Donald Trump, Jr. in their quickly aborted meeting in Trump Tower.  DOJ official Bruce Ohr, whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, met with Simpson and met with Steele before the election and weeks after the election to discuss his work on Trump.  Clinton hatchet men Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer passed on the same salacious stuff about Trump that remains unverified in the dossier to Department of State official Jonathan Winer, who gave the information to Steele.

It certainly looks as if the gang was playing an adult version of "telephone," which we used to play in Girl Scouts to show how gossip gets magnified and is unreliable...

...I was driven to drink by imbeciles who think we are.  
So I headed off for a couple of margaritas at the local watering hole, the Crying in Our Beer Salon..."
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