Bryan Dean Wright
By Bryan Dean Wright
Published July 12, 2017
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White House responds to Donald Trump Jr.'s email exchange

In an early morning tweet, President Trump slammed Democrats for spreading Russian propaganda, namely the broadcast of the controversial “British dossier.” Trump levied the accusation in response to the media firestorm over his son’s admission of meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign.

Trump is correct to say that many of my fellow Democrats have used the document as proof of Trump’s collusion with the Russian government. For example, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., assured Americans that the document was “absolutely true” while Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., announced that he hoped to talk to the British spy who wrote it.

But is Trump right to say that it’s propaganda? Or are Democrats correct in believing that it’s absolutely true?

Here’s what we know for certain.

But the most important, undisputed assessment comes from our former commander in chief and his intelligence leadership. Their view? The dossier wasn’t and isn’t worth our consideration. Yet why then did our intelligence community brief the document at all?

-- The nation’s intelligence leadership briefed both Obama and Trump on the dossier but made no judgment as to whether it was reliable.

-- When the intel chiefs briefed Obama on the document, he offered a skeptical response: “What does this have anything to do with anything?”

-- Obama took this suspicious view despite knowing that an investigation was being or had already been conducted on the dossier’s contents.

-- Once the press leaked the unvetted document, Trump’s angry response led then-CIA Director John Brennan to clarify that the dossier wasn’t “intelligence community information” and gave it no particular credence.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/12/democrat-and-ex-cia-trump-is-right-democrats-did-spread-british-dossier-so-did-intel-community.html