A Crime Still In Progress

Crime in Progress is, inadvertently, the cruelest book ever written about the American media. Its authors, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, are the two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded the DC-based consultancy Fusion GPS. In 2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign paid them to use their former media colleagues to push a conspiracy theory smearing her Republican opponent, Donald Trump. The crime is still in progress.

To help top-notch journalists market the fantasy that one of the world’s most familiar faces was a secret Russian spy, Fusion GPS co-ordinated with the FBI to forge a series of ‘intelligence reports’. They attributed these lurid memos to a down-on-his-luck Brit, a former spy named Christopher Steele.

The interested punters included some of the biggest names in the business: the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the New Yorker, even Yahoo! News. Eventually, they all endorsed Steele’s ‘dossier’.

Simpson and Fritsch ask us to believe that they and Steele are heroes for saving western democracy from Vladimir Putin. The media sustains this ludicrous cover story by obscuring mountains of evidence showing ‘Russian collusion’ to be a massive fraud on the American public. Crime in Progress intends to perpetuate that absurdity, but it incriminates its manufacturers by unintentionally confirming the four-year Get Trump operation.

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