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Schiff's Russia Expert Worked W/Steele, Wrote ‘Russian Interference' Piece In 2016, Has Unusual Connections
2019-10-21
[The Lid] Russia expert Fiona Hill, who reportedly left the National Security Council on 19 July 2019 (i.e., six days before the Trump phone call to Ukraine on 25 July), testified in a closed-door hearing to Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee this week. Hill had been brought to the NSC in the spring of 2017 as one of the staffing decisions in the transition from Michael Flynn to H.R. McMaster.

One might say that the problem with laying out Hill’s connections to the usual suspects of Spygate is knowing where to start.

But that’s not really a problem. The place to start is with Ms. Hill’s connection with Christopher Steele, which Politico reported on in a 30 September 2019 article on her. Here’s how Politico put it:
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Expert, maybe. Reality has a habit of humbling experts.
In 1991 I remember overhearing a conversation between postgrads commiserating about one of their fellows Bad Luck™. The unlucky one had spent years getting a International Poltical Studies PhD about Soviet Russia and was all set to parlay his Kremlinology skills into a cushy government job when... ♫ CRASH! ♫ the Berlin Wall fell.
Posted by: magpie   2019-10-21 16:38  

#10  She's actually not a bad person. Good analyst.
Looks like she was roped into other people's Shitshow.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-21 13:43  

#9  Hill had been brought to the NSC in the spring of 2017 as one of the staffing decisions in the transition from Michael Flynn to H.R. McMaster.

Now who could have possibly arranged such an intriguing personnel transfer ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-21 11:05  

#8  https://conservativemedia.com/news/23-house-republicans-yet-back-movement-censure-adam-schiff/

Sorry, forgot to copy and paste site. Pasted an earlier site.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-21 11:03  

#7  There's supposed to be a vote to censure Schiff tonight. Expect the Dems to block.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/mitt-romney-middle-impeachment-fight/600373/
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-21 11:02  

#6  She(?) does look a little like Putin in drag....
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-10-21 10:11  

#5  Why the long face Ms. Hill?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-21 09:31  

#4  Brookings Institute background? I'd say she's a Democrat, all right.
Posted by: Raj   2019-10-21 07:54  

#3  That's a man, baybeee
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-21 06:11  

#2  I'd be happier if I could just get a really close shave.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-21 03:45  

#1  Affirmative action in action?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-21 03:44  

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