But that's demonstrably false.
First note that when it turned out that the DNC had gotten millions of dollars from China back in 1996 as part of an effort of the Chinese to increase their influence in American elections there was no special prosecutor and the FBI did not launch a secret investigation into Bill Clinton.
Second note that when it was disclosed that Obama's campaign was acting in a manner to encourage illegal foreign contributions no one at the FBI or DOJ launched a secret investigation to see if Obama was being bought.
Hence in the past even when there was clear evidence of foreigners trying to influence a US election no one in the Swamp panicked. A cynic might say that because in those cases Democrats benefited we shouldn't be surprised that no one was bothered since the Swamp has two sets of laws; one for its own denizens and one for we the people.
Further we know that the people in the government knew from the get go that there were huge problems with the Steele dossier.
On Oct 13 2016 long before the FBI used the Steele dossier was used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec shared her serious concerns with the accuracy of the Steele dossier with other government officials including the FBI.
Among her points was that the dossier said that the Russians were paying their American assets who were hacking the election out of the Russian Consulate in Miami but that there is no Russian Consulate in Miami.
Comey testified to Congress that even by the time he was fired, long after the FISA warrants were obtained, that the FBI had not in fact verified the Steele dossier.
But the government conspirators told the FISA court that in fact the Steele dossier was verified.
Of course professionals like Comey and Brennan knew the dossier was a fake. Think about it. How likely is it that a former British spy, whose identity is known to the Russian secret police, will be able to talk to many high level sources in Russia without Putin knowing about it? If Putin was helping Trump how likely is it that anyone, much less many high up people, would be willing to take Steele's, well really Hillary's, money given that in doing so they'd be spitting in Putin's face?
The much more logical conclusion was that if Steele didn't make the whole thing up that it was in fact disinformation that Putin was deliberately sending to the US. After all everyone now agrees that the Russians in no material way impacted the 2016 election but the slow coup attempted by Comey et al has been a serious burden on the US for 2+ years now. Clearly Putin came out ahead by giving Comey et al a lie that they'd love to believe.
The simple reality is that if anything like the Steele report had shown up on another subject, say Russian hypersonic technology, no one in the Intel community or the FBI would have taken it seriously. Especially if it turned out that Boeing or some other US aerospace company that wanted the US to spend more on hypersonics funded it.
Hence given the reaction to previous cases of clear attempts by foreign powers to influence elections and the total implausibility of the Steele dossier--including gross errors in it-- either Comey et al would have to be amazingly stupid or the reality is that they wanted it to be true so they acted as though it was or they were blinded by their ideology and simply couldn't imagine anything bad about Trump not being true; but that's irresponsible too.
They weren't honest patriots trying to help their country; they were die hard Democrats who used their positions to try and nullify the 2016 election.
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