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A number of people on the board have dismissed Louise Mensch's reporting, apparently because she's a conservative. Political leanings aside, she's been on this story since the git-go, with her scoop on the FISA warrant on a "Trump's associate's" servers. The Guardian, whom she has excoriated and condemned for their handling of the Snowden dump, sucks it up and congratulates her.
In the journalistic race to get to the bottom of one of the most closely guarded secrets in Washington the investigation into the Trump teams contacts with Moscow one of the biggest scoops came from an unexpected source: the British former MP and novelist, Louise Mensch.
On the eve of the November election, Mensch published a sensational story reporting that a special intelligence court in Washington had granted a warrant to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance of US persons in an investigation of possible contacts between Russian banks and the Trump organisation.
Two months later, however, the BBC put out a story echoing Menschs original report about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) court warrant issued in October to allow the justice department to look into transfers and communications between the Russian banks and Trump associate and that US intelligence agencies were investigating the link.
However, it seems increasingly clear that Mensch landed an extraordinary scoop that had eluded the best investigative journalists in the US. Her explanation is that her vocal advocacy on behalf of UK and US intelligence agencies since former NSA contractor Edward Snowdens revelations about mass surveillance led her sources to trust her.
Here is her original article:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Granted FISA Warrant Covering Trump Camps Ties To Russia
There are also three more recent articles by her on her own blog, all of which probe the depths of what's happening:
Dear Mr. Putin, Lets Play Chess
Jeff Sessions: Attorney General, Suspect
The Carolina Conspiracy
I recommend that everyone keep an eye on her.
Three cheers for the woman I have dubbed "the attack ferret".
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)yodermon
(6,143 posts)I will note that she has conflated "Gaston NC" with "Gastonia, NC" and Gaston County, in her article here
https://patribotics.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/
She also blocked me on twitter for just asking her a simple question. A bit annoying but she probably get her share of trolls.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)She blocked me too! I have no idea why!
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I block especially stupid wingnuts routinely. Can't fix stupid but I don't have to look at it, either.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)So I should be able to keep reading Louise's twitter stream for a while.
MADem
(135,425 posts)You don't even need a twitter account to read what people are writing. It's not like instagram or some facebook pages.
hwmnbn
(4,279 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)This could be key.
The FBI investigation, serious enough to get a warrant, may have been quashed or buried by Comey or the ultra-CONservative cabal that seems to exist within the diverse groupings in the FBI.
Thanks for posting.
jeffreyi
(1,943 posts)There seems to be some goofiness embedded in all this. But whatever gets the job done. There are interesting allegations in those articles.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)it's been fascinating reading.