Christopher Steele: the man behind the dossier

AssHatZombie said:
BOMBSHELL: Steele Admits Fake Dossier Fabricated So Democrats Could Overturn Election Outcome
Trump-Russia dossier was created so Clinton could challenge 2016 election results – Steele
RT.com

The British ex-spy who authored the infamous dossier alleging collusion between Donald Trump and the Kremlin said one of his goals was to give Hillary Clinton legal basis to challenge the 2016 election results.

Christopher Steele’s salacious 17-page report was commissioned by Fusion GPS, a firm connected to Clinton’s campaign.

“Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as ‘Hillary for America’) could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election,” Steele wrote in recently unsealed declaration that was published by the Washington Times.

His statement is part of a series of answers which Steele provided in a defamation suit brought by three Russians who head Alfa Bank, who were named in the dossier as part of the alleged collusion conspiracy between Trump and the Kremlin.

The court challenge never came. Instead, the unsubstantiated dossier was leaked to news outlets such as BuzzFeed, fuelling Russiagate hysteria and serving as the backbone of a two-year probe that has yet to corroborate any of the document’s core claims. The document was also used by the FBI to obtain a warrant to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page, who was accused by Steele of meeting secretly with Kremlin insiders in Moscow. Incredibly, former FBI Director James Comey admitted that his agency had not verified the dossier’s contents before using it to justify the warrant.
The dossier itself has apparently fallen out of favor with many of its early champions: One of the first journalists to report on Steele’s research has stated that many of Steele’s central claims have yet to be substantiated and are “likely false.”

Steele faces similar legal trouble in London, where he is being sued for defamation by Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev. In one of his memos, Steele accused Gubarev of personally hacking DNC computers. Gubarev has also sued BuzzFeed for publishing the unverified claim as part of its uncritical coverage of the dossier.The defamation case against Steele was dismissed by a DC Superior Court judge, but lawyers representing the Russian bankers have launched an appeal in US District court, attaching Steele’s revelatory statements as part of their filing.

Steele claimed that internet traffic data had been observed between Alfa Bank and a computer served linked to the Trump Organization. The allegation has yet to be proven, with some reports suggesting that the flagged data actually originated from an internet spam farm based outside Philadelphia.

___http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/12/bombshell-steele-admits-fake-dossier-fabricated-so-democrats-could-overturn-election-outcome/
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The millenium report? :lolup::rofl2:

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The Millennium Report is an extreme right biased website that promotes pro-Russia and pro-Assad propaganda. Throughout the website there is significant anti-Clinton rhetoric with the term “Lock Her Up” used frequently. There is significant use of loaded words in headlines and articles such as this: “Here’s the proven Deep State conspiracy that will hang ’em all!” The primary source of information for this website is State of the Nation 2012, which is another extreme right conspiracy site that occasionally publishes fake news. Mostly the Millennium Report is a tin foil hat conspiracy website with themes running from Pizzagate, the New World Order to the Deep State conspiracy.

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domer76 said:
The millenium report? :lolup::rofl2:

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The Millennium Report is an extreme right biased website that promotes pro-Russia and pro-Assad propaganda. Throughout the website there is significant anti-Clinton rhetoric with the term “Lock Her Up” used frequently. There is significant use of loaded words in headlines and articles such as this: “Here’s the proven Deep State conspiracy that will hang ’em all!” The primary source of information for this website is State of the Nation 2012, which is another extreme right conspiracy site that occasionally publishes fake news. Mostly the Millennium Report is a tin foil hat conspiracy website with themes running from Pizzagate, the New World Order to the Deep State conspiracy.

Overall, we rate The Millennium Report Questionable based on extreme right bias and promotion of propaganda and conspiracy theories.

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attacking the messenger is considered a logical fallacy.

when did the fbi first learn of trump russia collusion?
 
AssHatZombie said:
attacking the messenger is considered a logical fallacy.

when did the fbi first learn of trump russia collusion?
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The messenger is an extremist fake news propaganda site. That you RW morons keep citing WND, Breitbart, this site and other conspiracy/propaganda sites says more about your mentality than anything else.

I don't know on the FBI question. What do your conspiracy sites tell you? :rofl2:
 
domer76 said:
The messenger is an extremist fake news propaganda site. That you RW morons keep citing WND, Breitbart, this site and other conspiracy/propaganda sites says more about your mentality than anything else.

I don't know on the FBI question. What do your conspiracy sites tell you? :rofl2:
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you're doubling down on a logical fallacy. but keep with it, you'll keep losing.

you should research the fbi question.
 
The Republicans’ Fake Investigations

By Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch

Jan. 2, 2018

In the year since the publication of the so-called Steele dossier — the collection of intelligence reports we commissioned about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia — the president has repeatedly attacked us on Twitter. His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia. Conservative news outlets and even our former employer, The Wall Street Journal, have spun a succession of mendacious conspiracy theories about our motives and backers.

We are happy to correct the record.Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right’s conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign — the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research — separately came to hire us in the first place.

We walked investigators through our yearlong effort to decipher Mr. Trump’s complex business past, of which the Steele dossier is but one chapter. And we handed over our relevant bank records — while drawing the line at a fishing expedition for the records of companies we work for that have nothing to do with the Trump case.

Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm’s testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It’s time to share what our company told investigators.

We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian meddling. As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.

The intelligence committees have known for months that credible allegations of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia were pouring in from independent sources during the campaign. Yet lawmakers in the thrall of the president continue to wage a cynical campaign to portray us as the unwitting victims of Kremlin disinformation.

We suggested investigators look into the bank records of Deutsche Bank and others that were funding Mr. Trump’s businesses. Congress appears uninterested in that tip. Reportedly, ours are the only bank records the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed.

We told Congress that from Manhattan to Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., we found widespread evidence that Mr. Trump and his organization had worked with a wide array of dubious Russians in arrangements that often raised questions about money laundering. Likewise, those deals don’t seem to interest Congress.

We explained how, from our past journalistic work in Europe, we were deeply familiar with the political operative Paul Manafort’s coziness with Moscow and his financial ties to Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.

<snip>

Yes, we hired Mr. Steele, a highly respected Russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question: Why did Mr. Trump repeatedly seek to do deals in a notoriously corrupt police state that most serious investors shun?

What came back shocked us. Mr. Steele’s sources in Russia (who were not paid) reported on an extensive — and now confirmed — effort by the Kremlin to help elect Mr. Trump president. Mr. Steele saw this as a crime in progress and decided he needed to report it to the F.B.I.

We did not discuss that decision with our clients, or anyone else. Instead, we deferred to Mr. Steele, a trusted friend and intelligence professional with a long history of working with law enforcement. We did not speak to the F.B.I. and haven’t since.

After the election, Mr. Steele decided to share his intelligence with Senator John McCain via an emissary. We helped him do that. The goal was to alert the United States national security community to an attack on our country by a hostile foreign power. We did not, however, share the dossier with BuzzFeed, which to our dismay published it last January.

We’re extremely proud of our work to highlight Mr. Trump’s Russia ties. To have done so is our right under the First Amendment.

The public still has much to learn about a man with the most troubling business past of any United States president. Congress should release transcripts of our firm’s testimony, so that the American people can learn the truth about our work and most important, what happened to our democracy.

Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch, both former journalists, are the founders of the research firm Fusion GPS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html


Could be things will change starting next month.
 
you guys have lost in this thread, on a grand scale.

you have indicated that you understand the importance of whitewashing the steele dossier, the mechanism through which the tail has wagged the dog.
 
AssHatZombie said:
you guys have lost in this thread, on a grand scale.

you have indicated that you understand the importance of whitewashing the steele dossier, the mechanism through which the tail has wagged the dog.
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Also, the lawsuit by the oligarch was thrown out.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45251255

I can find no evidence, even in your article that Steele said it was fake. He was so concerned about what he found he went to the FBI. This is not the actions of a man who thought his info was fake.
 
Reporter who broke Steele dossier story says ex-British agent's claims 'likely false'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/18/steele-dossier-michael-isikoff/2347833002/

Steele $50K to confirm Trump dossier: Judge Napolitano
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politic...50k-to-confirm-trump-dossier-judge-napolitano
Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano on Monday said the FBI offered former British spy Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could “corroborate” the Trump-Russia dossier.

“I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn’t, didn’t, wouldn’t, and they didn’t pay him the money,” Napolitano told FOX Business' Stuart Varney on “Varney & Co.”

Last Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the House Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill. Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) asked Rosenstein if the FBI paid for the Russia dossier, to which he replied, “I’m not in a position to answer that question.” DeSantis followed up by asking, “Do you know the answer to the question?” Before being interrupted, Rosenstein answered back, “I believe I know the answer, but the Intelligence Committee is the appropriate committee…”

Spy behind Trump dossier says info was never meant for public eyes
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/donald-trump-spy-dossier/index.html
Steele also concedes that some of the information he passed along to the US and UK governments still "needed to be analyzed and further investigated/verified," according to the court filing. This acknowledgment from Steele referred specifically to one memo he wrote, not his entire dossier.

The filing, first reported by the Washington Times, seeks to defend Steele's involvement in a case against him that claims he failed to do "even the most basic attempt at verification.
 
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