Watch the Rats Run

Michael Isikoff is the Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News. He is also the author of a book called, "Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump" along with David Corn. Mr. Isakoff was the first person that Carter Page was being investigated and Mr. Corn was the first to talk about the Steele dossier. Mr. Corn was the person who gave a copy of the Steele Dossier to FBI General Counsel James Baker. This is funny because we now know Steele was actually working with the FBI already, so they would have had all of Steele's memos.

The reason this is interesting is because now that investigators are looking into what started the investigation, Mr. Isikoff is attempting to rewrite history to protect Mr. Baker. Here is the most recent article, which includes clips from a podcast with Baker and Isikoff.

Yahoo - Top FBI officials were "quite worried" Comey would appear to be blackmailing Trump.

The first video is 2 minutes and 47 seconds long. Mr. Baker comes off as seeking to burn Jim Comey. He claims he told Comey that Comey should not tell Trump that he was not a target of an investigation, which Comey did anyways. Basically everyone involved is seeking to blame Comey and make him the center of attention.

Now, I find Mr. Baker to be untruthful. The complete podcast is included in the above article, it is about 48 minutes long. Mr. Baker is asked how they went about verifying it and he claims it is complicated. Wait, Steele was working for them. Wouldn't you just start by asking Steele where he got the information from? We know from Steele's testimony in England that he never tried to verify any of it and that he didn't even travel to Russia. In fact, Steele said he got much of the accusations from random claims on the internet. It gets worse, you see Baker and Isikoff were friends and the FISA applications included using and article written by Isikoff based on the Steele Dossier and what he had been told by "government sources" which strongly implies Baker knew where Isikoff got his information from and that quoting him was just quoting the dossier, not confirmation of it.

People need to remember that the CIA and FBI claimed to have "high confidence" in their assessment even though it was based on the unverified Steele dossier. How is it they could have "high confidence" in it? Mueller did use it in his report. The people involved in this investigation are scared and they should be, Baker said he is going to completely cooperate in this new investigation and his first act is to point a finger at Comey.

Zerohedge - Michael Isikoff Says He Was "Stunned" To See His Story Cited In FISA Warrant. Which is odd as he was the first to write about Carter Page. This is the story he wrote back in 2016.

Yahoo - "U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin. This is hilarious as the FBI had arrested and prosecuted two Russians based partly on information provided by Page. Carter Page worked in the energy industry and the largest energy supplier in Europe is Russia. Why would anyone be surprised that an energy person working in Europe would be dealing with Russians?

Townhall - DOJ Documents Show Carter Page Helped FBI Catch Russian Spies. By the way, that wasn't mentioned in the FISA warrants either.