Trump dossier

[Doug Fisher]

I'm not familiar with Anthony Thorne. Is he an author?

He's a member here and posts often.

Ah I see. Hopefully he can offer some perspective then. It's still a rather convoluted mess to me, and I've been researching this on and off for several months now.

Arnaud de Borchgrave is another name who popped up a lot, in relation to CNP, CFR, the Korean Unification Church, Washington Times, etc. His colleague Michael Ledeen was named as part of Ted Cruz's team. I also saw that Wikispooks had de Borchgave connected to Diligence, which is interesting. More info on him would be appreciated. I think tugging on that thread would be revealing, considering how many of the aforementioned groups he belongs to.

Apparently he's a plagiarist as well, and The Washington Times covered this up.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/17/coverup_...ton_times/

According to four Times officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the paper's management has known about de Borchgrave's pilfering for months. Editors in the paper's Commentary section, where the octogenarian columnist's work ran until earlier this year, first stumbled on the problem last July, when de Borchgrave wrote a column about Council on Foreign Relations president Richard N. Haass. It included unattributed passages that were drawn almost word for word from Haass' writing. At this point, the section's editors decided to give de Borchgrave the benefit of the doubt, in part because of his stature at the paper, and in part because Haass' words were attributed to him elsewhere in the column. "It was feasible in this situation that he could have accidentally dropped some quote marks," explains one person familiar with the matter.