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Julian Borger in Washington -- Wed 15 Nov 17
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/christopher-steele-trump-russia-dossier-accurate
The respected ex-MI6 officer told Guardian journalist and author Luke Harding that his FBI contacts greeted his intelligence report with shock and horror
The book, Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by the Guardian journalist Luke Harding, quotes Steele as telling friends that he believes his reports based on sources cultivated over three decades of intelligence work will be vindicated as the US special counsel investigation digs deeper into contacts between Trump, his associates and Moscow.
Ive been dealing with this country for 30 years. Why would I invent this stuff? Steele is quoted as saying.
One of the reasons his dossier was taken seriously in Washington in 2016 was Steeles reputation in the US for producing reliable reports on Russia, according to Hardings book.
Between 2014 and 2016, he authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine, which were commissioned by private clients but shared widely within the state department and passed across the desks of the secretary of state, John Kerry, and the assistant secretary Victoria Nuland, who led the US response to the annexation of Crimea and the covert invasion of eastern Ukraine.
The sources for those reports were the same as those quoted in the dossier on Trump ................
Me.
(35,454 posts)Truth will out
triron
(22,023 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Powell's presentation to the UN prior to the Iraq War or the financial disclosures and FBI interviews of several of Trump's key people.
randr
(12,417 posts)And we will point out the 70 to 90% that is proven
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)while the piss and moan
0rganism
(23,971 posts)and go on to slant the story so it's all about the report's veracity, and whether Democrats hate Trump, never addressimg the consequences of the accurate 70-90%.
great again!
imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)Caliman73
(11,744 posts)sorry
imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Reporters who are real reporters say this is for real with certain times and places that need further investigation as to confirmation. Remember,Putin has offed eight or nine Persons who had knowledge or were aware of happenings.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Making it easier for the FBI to justify using the dossier, as he was already a source known to the government.
quartz007
(1,216 posts)contains lies. I am sure Mueller is investigating this.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)That it can't be publicly debated in any useful manner.
I have seen this before and nothing about the comment is good.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)What someone believes to be the case may not be verifiable, and yet be true. Also, there are concerns that someone might provide false information to impact the credibility of the person receiving the information. Steele is passing along what he could find out and is himself providing information on the reliability of the information. That is a good thing, not bullshit.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I think the dossier itself currently holds importance but not in the public sphere. I would bet that most people know of this as the dossier that talks about the pee tapes. Tapes that have yet to materialize. Then this. The court of public opinion rules with the attention span of a gnat.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)during Rachel's hour...9pm ET
"The Dossier: A TRMS Special Report
A special report examining the now-infamous Trump dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Rachel Maddow maps out the history and importance of the dossier, and discovers which parts of it have borne out as true."
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Yeah, because if it is true Trump will die in jail.
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