{"id":13753,"date":"2018-01-12T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13753"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:07:40","slug":"wondering-about-fusion-gps-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/12\/wondering-about-fusion-gps-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering About Fusion GPS Testimony?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re wondering about that Fusion GPS<\/strong> Congressional<\/strong><\/em> testimony, but don’t have time to round it up and try to evaluate something outside of your experience? Greg Fallis is happy to help you out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

First, and most important, is this fact: the folks at Fusion GPS are professionals. I need to go off on a short tangent here. I spent seven years as private investigator specializing in criminal defense. From the title, people reasonably assume my job was to help accused criminals who are being prosecuted. In fact, my job was to gather facts and information and report my findings to the defense attorney. If that information supported the defendant, the attorney needed to know that; if it didn\u2019t, the attorney needed to know that as well. I didn\u2019t go out looking for information that would benefit the defendant or that would hurt the prosecution; I just looked for information that was accurate and credible. It didn\u2019t matter to me if it helped or hurt the lawyer\u2019s case. …<\/p>\n

… Fusion hired Steele to do the sort of work Fusion doesn\u2019t do. Most of what Fusion does is document-based. Following paper trails. Discovering relationships by delving into deep, obscure bureaucratic files and public records. That gives them solid, objective, unbiased information \u2014 a document says what it says. But the public record only takes you so far. It was also necessary to actually\u00a0talk<\/em> to people who dealt with Trump\u2019s\u00a0business dealings in Russia.<\/p>\n

This is an entirely different sort of investigation. It\u2019s less about accuracy of information than it is about the credibility of the informant. A document says what it says; people say all sorts of ridiculous shit for all sorts of ridiculous reasons. Documents can give you accurate information; people are capable of giving you very accurate misinformation<\/em>, maybe by accident, maybe on purpose.\u00a0This gets even more complicated when dealing with Russia and Russian agents, who are trained in actively providing\u00a0disinformation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This was Christopher Steele\u2019s area of expertise \u2014 human intelligence. Determining who is credible and who isn\u2019t, the degree to which the information is reliable, how much it can be trusted, what motives do people have to provide misleading information. Steele began talking to people, and what he learned alarmed him. The fact that Steele was alarmed was, in itself, alarming to Simpson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fallis comes at it from a liberal perspective, but, given his cited experience, he seems to be well-grounded for evaluating the information-gathering portion of the testimony. Take a peek and be enlightened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re wondering about that Fusion GPS Congressional testimony, but don’t have time to round it up and try to evaluate something outside of your experience? Greg Fallis is happy to help you out: First, and most important, is this fact: the folks at Fusion GPS are professionals. I need \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13757,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions\/13757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}