You can't make this stuff up... I was reading through a rather disturbing NYT story about the CIA wasting $100k of our taxpayer dollars on a Russian scammer, when I came across this eye-opener:
"Cody Shearer, an American political operative with ties to the Democratic Party, has been crisscrossing Eastern Europe for more than six months to secure the purported kompromat from a different Russian, said people familiar with the efforts, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid damaging their relationship with him."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/u...sia-trump.html
The New York Fucking Times should have led with the Shearer story, instead of burying it halfway through the CIA-got-snookered-again story.
In case you haven't heard of Cody Shearer, he is the sleaziest of the sleazeballs who have worked for the Clintons over the past 3 decades. He is even scummier than Sid Blumenthal, if that's possible. He played a key role in putting together not one, but TWO phony dossiers used to deceive a FISA judge into issuing a warrant for the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign. Here is more background info on this thoroughly disreputable character:
https://spectator.org/cody-shearers-...dirty-dossier/