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#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)

The Fifth Column

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The Campaign to Slay Disinformation Might Have Been Based on Russian Disinformation

The idea that the campaign to slay disinformation might itself have been based on Russian disinformation is not a crazy conspiracy theory. The person acknowledged by everybody to be the source of much of this steel dossier stuff was himself once investigated by the FBI as an FSB agent. He stopped investigating because they wrongly thought he left and moved to Russia. And they never closed it. Like, I mean, listen, that doesn't mean that they can be wrong. They're wrong all the time. It's not like, I'm not sure. But to me, it was an, You lost Eli.

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