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Shepard Smith said: "Some of the assertions in the dossier have been confirmed. Other parts are unconfirmed. None of the dossier, to Fox News's knowledge, has been disproven. According to Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff , a major portion of the dossier's content is about Russian efforts to help Trump, and those allegations "turned out to be true". After the Mueller Report was released, Joshua Levy, counsel for Fusion GPS, issued this statement:. The Mueller Report substantiates the core reporting and many of the specifics in Christopher Steele's memoranda, including that Trump campaign figures were secretly meeting Kremlin figures, that Russia was conducting a covert operation to elect Donald Trump, and that the aim of the Russian operation was to sow discord and disunity in the US and within the Transatlantic Alliance. To our knowledge, nothing in the Steele memoranda has been disproven.
The Inspector General investigation by Michael E. Horowitz , published December 9, , expressed doubts about the dossier's reliability and sources:. The FBI concluded, among other things, that although consistent with known efforts by Russia to interfere in the U. elections, much of the material in the Steele election reports, including allegations about Donald Trump and members of the Trump campaign relied upon in the Carter Page FISA applications, could not be corroborated; that certain allegations were inaccurate or inconsistent with information gathered by the Crossfire Hurricane team; and that the limited information that was corroborated related to time, location, and title information, much of which was publicly available.
Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage described the dossier as "deeply flawed". The process of evaluating Steele's information has been explained by Bill Priestap , at the time the Assistant Director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division :. We did not ever take the information he provided at face value We went to great lengths to try to independently verify the source's credibility and to prove or disprove every single assertion in the dossier We absolutely understood that the information in the so-called dossier could be inaccurate. We also understood that some parts could be true and other parts false. We understood that information could be embellished or exaggerated.
We also understood that the information could have been provided by the Russians as part of a disinformation campaign. On January 11, , Paul Wood , of BBC News , wrote that the salacious information in Steele's dossier was also reported by "multiple intelligence sources" and "at least one East European intelligence service". They reported that "compromising material on Mr. Trump" included "more than one tape, not just video, but audio as well, on more than one date, in more than one place, in both Moscow and St. On January 12, , Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Agency lawyer now with the Brookings Institution , said: "My general take is that the intelligence community and law enforcement seem to be taking these claims seriously.
That itself is highly significant. But it is not the same as these allegations being verified. Even if this was an intelligence community document—which it isn't—this kind of raw intelligence is still treated with skepticism. On February 10, , CNN reported that some communications between "senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals" described in the dossier had been corroborated by multiple U. They "took place between the same individuals on the same days and from the same locations as detailed in the dossier". Some persons were known to be "heavily involved" in collecting information that could hurt Clinton and aid Trump. CNN was unable to confirm whether conversations were related to Trump. Sources told CNN some conversations had been "intercepted during routine intelligence gathering", but refused to reveal the content of conversations or specify which communications were intercepted because the information was classified.
They also reported that American intelligence agencies had examined Steele and his "vast network throughout Europe and found him and his sources to be credible". On March 30, , Paul Wood reported that the FBI was using the dossier as a roadmap for its investigation. On April 18, , CNN reported that, according to U. officials, information from the dossier had been used as part of the basis for getting the FISA warrant to monitor Page in October Mimi Rocah , Dan Goldman , and Barbara McQuade debunked three false arguments made by National Review ' s Andrew C. McCarthy against the FBI's use of the dossier when seeking a FISA warrant on Carter Page. They explained why the FBI was justified in doing so and would have been "derelict" if it had not: "[McCarthy] misses the point. Even if the specific details in the Steele dossier are not directly confirmed, the fact that other evidence unrelated to the dossier corroborates the dossier's main allegations is sufficient to support a finding of probable cause.
Officials told CNN this information would have had to be independently corroborated by the FBI before being used to obtain the warrant, [] [] but CNN later reported "it's now clear that this level of verification never materialized". British journalist Julian Borger wrote on October 7, , that "Steele's reports are being taken seriously after lengthy scrutiny by federal and congressional investigators", at least Steele's assessment that Russia had conducted a campaign to interfere in the election to Clinton's detriment; that part of the Steele dossier "has generally gained in credibility, rather than lost it". On October 11, , it was reported that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse D - Rhode Island , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee SJC , had said: "As I understand it, a good deal of his information remains unproven, but none of it has been disproven, and considerable amounts of it have been proven.
On October 25, , James Clapper said that "some of the substantive content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community assessment which from other sources in which we had very high confidence. On October 27, , Robert S. Litt , a former lawyer for the Director of National Intelligence , was quoted as stating the dossier "played absolutely no role" in the intelligence community's determination that Russia had interfered in the U. presidential election. On November 15, , Adam Schiff said much of the dossier's content is about Russian efforts to help Trump, and those allegations "turned out to be true", something later affirmed by the January 6, , intelligence community assessment released by the ODNI. On December 7, , commentator Jonathan Chait wrote that as "time goes by, more and more of the claims first reported by Steele have been borne out", with the mainstream media "treat[ing] [the dossier] as gossip" whereas the intelligence community "take it seriously".
On January 29, , a House Intelligence Committee minority report stated that "multiple independent sources corroborated Steele's reporting". On January 29, , Mark Warner , the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said "little of that dossier has either been fully proven or conversely, disproven". John Sipher, who served 28 years as a clandestine CIA agent, including heading the agency's Russia program, said investigating the allegations requires access to non-public records. He said "[p]eople who say it's all garbage, or all true, are being politically biased", adding he believes that while the dossier may not be correct in every detail, it is "generally credible" and "In the intelligence business, you don't pretend you're a hundred per cent accurate. If you're seventy or eighty per cent accurate, that makes you one of the best.
During his April 15, , ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos , former FBI Director James Comey described Steele as a "credible source, someone with a track record, someone who was a credible and respected member of an allied intelligence service during his career, and so it was important that we try to understand it, and see what could we verify, what could we rule in or rule out. In May , former career intelligence officer James Clapper believed that "more and more" of the dossier had been validated over time. in his view, the "heart of the [Steele] reporting was that there's a massive Russian effort to influence the American election and weaponize stolen information. When DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz issued a report in December on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the report noted that the "FBI Intel Section Chief told us that the CIA viewed the Steele reporting as 'internet rumor'". Other observers and experts have had varying reactions to the dossier.
Generally, "former intelligence officers and other national-security experts" urged "skepticism and caution" but still took "the fact that the nation's top intelligence officials chose to present a summary version of the dossier to both President Obama and President-elect Trump" as an indication "that they may have had a relatively high degree of confidence that at least some of the claims therein were credible, or at least worth investigating further". Vice President Joe Biden told reporters that, while he and Obama were receiving a briefing on the extent of election hacking attempts, there was a two-page addendum that addressed the contents of the Steele dossier. On January 11, , Newsweek published a list of "13 things that don't add up" in the dossier, writing that it was a "strange mix of the amateur and the insightful" and stating that it "contains lots of Kremlin-related gossip that could indeed be, as the author claims, from deep insiders—or equally gleaned" from Russian newspapers and blogs.
In his June Senate Intelligence Committee testimony, former FBI director James Comey said "some personally sensitive aspects" of the dossier were unverified when he briefed Trump on them on January 6, Trump and his supporters have challenged the veracity of the dossier because it was funded in part by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, while Democrats assert the funding source is irrelevant. In June , investigators for Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz found Steele's testimony surprising [] and his "information sufficiently credible to have to extend the investigation". In November , the founders of Fusion GPS published a book about the dossier and had this to say about its veracity:. After three years of investigations, a fair assessment of the memos would conclude that many of the allegations in the dossier have been borne out.
Some proved remarkably prescient. Other details remain stubbornly unconfirmed, while a handful now appear to be doubtful, though not yet disproven. David A. Graham of The Atlantic has noted that in spite of Trump's "mantra that 'there was no collusion' it is clear that the Trump campaign and later transition were eager to work with Russia, and to keep that secret. Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage of The New York Times have described the impact of some of the flaws in the dossier:. But its flaws have taken on outsized political significance, as Mr. Trump's allies have sought to conflate it with the larger effort to understand Russia's covert efforts to tilt the election in his favor and whether any Trump campaign associates conspired in that effort. Mueller laid out extensive details about Russia's covert operation and contacts with Trump campaign associates, but found insufficient evidence to bring any conspiracy charges.
The FBI Operation Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Russian interference, that started on July 31, , was not triggered by the dossier, [46] [44] [45] [82] but the dossier is still the subject of the Russia investigation origins counter-narrative , a conspiracy theory pushed by Trump and Fox News. In January , ABC News described how the FBI would not open an investigation based on one document like Steele's unverified report but it still needed to investigate its allegations "rather than accept them as evidence". persons that raised concerns" and it was that knowledge that "served as the basis for the FBI investigation to determine whether such collusion [or] cooperation occurred". The Mueller Report , a summary of the findings of the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the U. elections , contained passing references to some of the dossier's allegations but little mention of its more sensational claims.
It was a major subject of the Nunes memo , the Democratic rebuttal memo, [2] and the Inspector General report on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The investigations led to Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson being interviewed in August by Congress. John Durham has been investigating whether FBI agents "mishandled classified information" about operation Crossfire Hurricane when they questioned Steele. The IG report documents that a case agent mentioned Papadopoulos to Steele. The FBI has no "established guidelines for how to address the disclosure of sensitive or classified information to sources", and the Inspector General "concluded that the case agent should not be faulted".
Durham sought to get more information by seeking access to evidence gathered in a British lawsuit filed by the founders of Alfa-Bank. A July 21, , court filing shows that Durham has sought the lifting of "a protective order on evidence that had been gathered". Politico wrote that legal experts said this move was "highly unusual and suggests the British government was not involved in, or cooperating with, Durham's criminal investigation". The Russia investigation origins counter-narrative [] is a right-wing alternative narrative , [] [] sometimes identified as a conspiracy theory, [] [] [] concerning the origins of the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the United States elections.
These conspiracy theories [] [] have been pushed by Trump, [46] Fox News, [47] GOP politicians like Representative Jim Jordan R-Ohio , [] and Trump's Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. there has been no evidence found, after 18 months of investigation, to support Barr's claims that Trump was targeted by politically biased Obama officials to prevent his election. The probe remains ongoing. In fact, the sources said, the Durham investigation has so far uncovered no evidence of any wrongdoing by Biden or Barack Obama, or that they were even involved with the Russia investigation. There 'was no evidence not even remotely indicating Obama or Biden did anything wrong,' as one person put it.
The conspiracy theory falsely claims the dossier triggered the Russia investigation and was used as an excuse by the FBI to start it. It also aims to discredit Steele and thus discredit the whole investigation. The dossier could not have had any role in the opening of the Russia investigation on July 31, , as top FBI officials received the dossier the following September. Horowitz into Russian interference and alleged FISA abuses found that "none of the evidence used to open the [original Crossfire Hurricane FBI] investigation" came from the C. or Trump—Russia dossier. Trey Gowdy R-S. affirmed that the Russia probe would have happened without the dossier: "So there's going to be a Russia probe, even without a dossier. The founders of Fusion GPS did not expect their connections to Bruce and Nellie Ohr , Steele, Hillary Clinton, and the FBI to "become public and subsequently provide the framework for a deep-state conspiracy theory".
The dossier also figures as part of the Spygate conspiracy theory and conspiracy theories related to the Trump—Ukraine scandal. According to The Wall Street Journal , President Trump's actions in the Trump—Ukraine scandal stemmed from his belief that Ukraine was responsible for the Steele Dossier. The dossier is central to Republican assertions that Trump is the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy to take him down. Democrats see this focus on the dossier as conspiratorial. A fact-check by The Washington Post analyzed the claim and the role of the dossier. It found the claim to be false and gave it four Pinocchios. According to Eric Lutz, Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan have pushed a conspiracy theory that the dossier was "based on Russian disinformation". David Frum also described a "suddenly red-hot media campaign to endorse Trump's fantasy that he was the victim of a 'Russia hoax.
Heather Digby Parton described why we should "forget the Steele dossier" as a "reason for the Russia investigation": "No doubt there was some histrionic coverage of the Steele Dossier. But the truth is that virtually every news outlet that reported it made clear that it was unsubstantiated and no one reported that it was the only reason for the Russia investigation. Trump and his campaign's suspicious behavior was more than enough to set off alarms all over the world. In , Cohen told Mother Jones that he had visited Prague briefly 14 years before. Cohen's passport showed that he entered Italy in early July , and that he left Italy in mid-July , from Rome, Italy. Cohen has also stated that he was in Los Angeles between August 23 and 29, and in New York for the entire month of September.
Gubarev has denied all accusations made in the dossier. While it has been proven that his companies were used to facilitate cybercrimes, [] [] [] Andrew Weisburd has said that "Neither BuzzFeed nor Steele have accused Gubarev of being a willing participant in wrongdoing. Page originally denied meeting any Russian officials, but his later testimony, acknowledging that he had met with senior Russian officials at Rosneft, has been interpreted as corroboration of portions of the dossier. News and HuffPost for their articles describing his activities mentioned in the Steele dossier. The judge said that Page admitted the articles about his potential contacts with Russian officials were essentially true. Trump addressed the " golden showers " allegation in January , publicly stating: "Does anyone really believe that story? I'm also very much of a germaphobe , by the way.
According to FBI Director James Comey, in private conversations between him and Trump in early , Trump denied the "golden showers" allegation, with one reason given being that he did not stay overnight in Moscow at the time of the Miss Universe contest in , and another being that he assumed he was always being recorded when in Russia. According to Comey, Trump's false denials on whether he had stayed overnight in Moscow, despite Comey not asking about it, exhibited behaviour that "tends to reflect consciousness of guilt", but this conclusion is "not definitive", said Comey.
Trump publicly disputed that he had issued such a denial to Comey: "He said I didn't stay there a night. Of course I stayed there I stayed there a very short period of time but of course I stayed. Donald Trump's first Twitter reaction to the dossier was a January 10, , tweet: "FAKE NEWS—A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT! Trump has called the dossier " fake news " and criticized the intelligence and media sources that published it. intelligence agencies to report them. continued to claim for more than a year that Steele was paid "millions of dollars" for his work.
A footnote in the Mueller Report revealed that Trump requested James Comey and James Clapper to publicly refute the dossier. The two men then exchanged emails about the request, with Clapper saying that "Trump wanted him to say the dossier was 'bogus, which, of course, I can't do'. On July 11, , Trump tweeted that Steele should be extradited. In July , Special Agent in Charge David Archey briefed the Senate Intelligence Committee about certain aspects of the Special Counsel Office's SCO "investigative process and information management":. We [the SCO] were aware of the Steele dossier, obviously. We were aware of some of the efforts that went into its verification we did not include Steele dossier reporting in the report. The information that we collected would have superseded it, and been something we would have relied on more, and that's why you see what we did in the report and not the Steele dossier in the report.
He "declined to provide further information on whether FBI or SCO attempted to verify information in the dossier, although he noted that the SCO did not draw on the dossier to support its conclusions. Russia has backed Trump by attacking the dossier and denying its allegations, calling it an "absolute fabrication" and "a hoax intended to further damage U. As Putin's press secretary, Peskov insisted in an interview that the dossier is a fraud, saying "I can assure you that the allegations in this funny paper, in this so-called report, they are untrue. They are all fake. Some of Steele's former colleagues expressed support for his character, saying "The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false—completely untrue.
Chris is an experienced and highly regarded professional. He's not the sort of person who will simply pass on gossip. Among journalists, Bob Woodward called the dossier a "garbage document". of obvious central public importance. It's the subject of multiple investigations by intelligence agencies, by Congress. That was clear a year ago. It's a lot clearer now. On January 2, , Simpson and Fritsch authored an op-ed in The New York Times , requesting that Republicans "release full transcripts of our firm's testimony" and further wrote that, "the Steele dossier was not the trigger for the FBI'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.
On January 4, , U. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled on Trump's repeated tweets describing the dossier as "fake" or "discredited":. None of the tweets inescapably lead to the inference that the President's statements about the Dossier are rooted in information he received from the law enforcement and intelligence communities The President's statements may very well be based on media reports or his own personal knowledge, or could simply be viewed as political statements intended to counter media accounts about the Russia investigation, rather than assertions of pure fact. On January 5, , in the first known Congressional criminal referral resulting from investigations related to the Russian interference in the U.
election, Grassley made a referral to the Justice Department suggesting that they investigate possible criminal charges against Steele [] [] for allegedly making false statements to the FBI about the distribution of the dossier's claims, [] specifically possible "inconsistencies" in what Steele told authorities and "possibly lying to FBI officials". Rather, they had passed on the information for 'further investigation only'. On January 8, , a spokesman for Grassley said he did not plan to release the transcript of Simpson's August 22, , testimony before the SJC. On January 10, , Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to have advance information on the forthcoming release of the Nunes memo and its assertions about the dossier, saying "more shocking information will be coming out in just days that will show systemic FISA abuse".
Hannity asserted that this new information would reveal "a totally phony document full of Russian lies and propaganda that was then used by the Obama administration to surveil members of an opposition party and incoming president," adding that this was "the real Russia collusion story" that represented a "precipice of one of the largest abuses of power in U. American history. And I'm talking about the literal shredding of the U. In April , the White House Correspondents' Association WHCA gave The Merriman Smith Memorial Award to CNN reporters Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto , Jake Tapper and Carl Bernstein.
In January , they reported that the intelligence community had briefed Obama and Trump of allegations that Russians claimed to have "compromising personal and financial information" on then-President elect Donald Trump. As late as July 29, , Trump continued to falsely insist the FBI investigation of Russian interference was initiated because of the dossier, and three days later White House press secretary Sarah Sanders repeated the false assertion. Fox News host Shepard Smith said of Trump's assertion: "In the main and in its parts, that statement is patently false. Alan Huffman , an expert on opposition research, has compared the two forms of opposition research represented by the dossier and WikiLeaks.
He didn't believe the dossier's intelligence gathering to be illegitimate, although "a little strange", while he was troubled by the large dump of documents from WikiLeaks that "may have been obtained in an illegal way". In March , Steele commented publicly on the dossier, stating: "I stand by the integrity of our work, our sources and what we did. On February 3, , Aleksej Gubarev, chief of technology company XBT and a figure mentioned in the dossier, sued BuzzFeed News for defamation. The suit, filed in a Broward County, Florida court, centers on allegations from the dossier that XBT had been "using botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct 'altering operations' against the Democratic Party leadership".
In connection with the libel suit against them by Gubarev, on June 30, , BuzzFeed News subpoenaed the CIA, the FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. They also sought "testimony from fired FBI Director James Comey, as well as former DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan". They were interested in using the discovery process to get information about the distribution of the dossier, how it had circulated among government officials, and the "existence and scope of the federal government's investigation into the dossier". They hoped "the information could bolster BuzzFeed ' s claim that publication of the document was protected by the fair report privilege, which can immunize reports based on official government records. On December 19, , Judge Ursula Ungaro sided with BuzzFeed News in the defamation suit filed by Gubarev, defending BuzzFeed ' s privilege to publish and the public's right to know about the allegations against Trump.
BuzzFeed News apologized for publishing Gubarev's name and redacted it. In May , Mikhail Fridman , Petr Aven , and German Khan —the owners of Alfa-Bank—filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed News for publishing the unverified dossier, [] [] that describes financial ties and collusion between Putin, Trump, and the three bank owners. The case against Orbis was dismissed based on the Anti-SLAPP Act because Steele's speech was protected by the First Amendment , that generally protects speech in the U. by non-U. In October , Fridman, Aven, and Khan also filed a libel suit against Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson for circulating the dossier among journalists and allowing it to be published.
The three oligarchs dropped their lawsuit against Fusion GPS in March On January 9, , Michael Cohen sued BuzzFeed News and Fusion GPS for defamation over allegations about him in the dossier. He accused them of harassment and impeding his investigation into Fusion GPS's role in raising suspicions about Trump's ties to Russian interference in the campaign. The suit was dismissed on February 21, This was the third amended complaint filed since September On March 31, , the court dismissed the claim " with prejudice " and a warning that "litigation 'asserted in bad faith or for the purpose of harassment' may be met with sanctions".
On April 16, , Alfa-Bank owners Fridman, Aven, and Khan filed a libel suit against Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence, [] since the dossier describes financial ties and collusion between Putin, Trump, and the three bank owners. On August 20, , a judge in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia threw out the libel suit. The case was dismissed with prejudice in response to a motion by lawyers for Orbis Business Intelligence. He also cited the District of Columbia's anti- SLAPP law, that prevents the filing of frivolous suits to silence critics. He also pointed out its importance to the public interest: "The Steele dossier generated so much interest and attention in the US precisely because its contents relate to active public debates here. On June 18, , an appellate court upheld the dismissal of their defamation lawsuit against Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence.
Alfa-Bank partners Petr Aven, Mikhail Fridman, and German Khan brought a lawsuit for defamation in Britain against Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele's private intelligence firm. In July , Justice Warby from the Queen's Bench Division of the British High Court of Justice ordered Orbis to pay damages to Aven and Fridman who Steele claimed had delivered "large amounts of illicit cash" to Vladimir Putin when Putin was deputy mayor of St. Judge Warby ruled that the claim was "inaccurate and misleading" [36] and awarded the damages to compensate "for the loss of autonomy, distress and reputational damage caused by the breaches of duty". The judge stated that Steele's dossier also inaccurately claimed that Aven and Fridman provided foreign policy advice to Putin. Aleksej Gubarev has filed a defamation lawsuit against Steele alleging the dossier made "seriously defamatory allegations".
The defendants said that BuzzFeed ' s publication of the memorandum was "unauthorized" and they "did not intend the December memorandum or its content to be made public and did not provide the December memorandum to BuzzFeed or any other media organization. Steele's final memorandum was completed on December 13, No one paid for it. On October 30, , Gubarev lost his libel case when the High Court ruled in Steele's favor. Judge Warby explained that the allegations about Gubarev were indeed defamatory and that their publication "caused serious harm to his reputation", but that Gubarev had failed to prove that Steele was responsible for the publication of the dossier, and that he therefore should not pay damages.
In October , Carter Page sued the DNC, Perkins Coie, and two Perkins Coie partners, for defamation. Page said he intended to appeal the decision. In January , it declined to review the defamation lawsuit. On June 17, , Georgi Rtskhiladze sued Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice for defamation related to the mention of Rtskhiladze in a footnote in the Mueller Report. Rtskhiladze claims that he was falsely identified as a "Russian businessman" in the footnote. citizen who was born in Georgia , a former Soviet republic , who emigrated to the U. in Supreme Court refused to hear a defamation suit filed by Page. Page's suit targeted Oath for 11 articles, especially one written by Michael Isikoff and published by Yahoo!
in September The judge dismissed the suit on February 14, , noting that "Page's arguments regarding Isikoff's description of the dossier and Steele were 'either sophistry or political spin'. Lin Wood , who was denied permission to represent Page because of his actions in the attempts to overturn the United States presidential election in favor of President Donald Trump. In January , Page lost an effort to revive the defamation case over Isikoff's article. Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. The court dismissed as far-fetched Page's theories about a conspiracy among interconnected media and political figures to tarnish Trump by concocting the Russia investigation from thin air.
On March 24, , Trump filed a RICO lawsuit against Clinton, Steele, and many others. The judge wrote that "despite the numerous references to [Steele] in Trump's lawsuit, 'none specifically attribute any false statement about Plaintiff to him'". The legal status of the dossier has been questioned, [] but, because of the legal difference between an "expenditure" by a campaign and a "contribution" to a campaign , it does not run afoul of Federal Election Commission laws 52 U. Code § forbidding foreign nationals from contributing to or aiding political campaigns, and that applies to any form of aid, not just cash donations. Philip Bump has explained "why the Trump Tower meeting may have violated the law—and the Steele dossier likely didn't": [] "Hiring a foreign party to conduct research is very different, including in legal terms, than being given information by foreign actors seeking to influence the election.
What's more, Trump's campaign did accept foreign assistance in , as the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III determined. The Trump Tower meeting involved a voluntary offer of aid "a campaign contribution" [] to the Trump campaign from the Russian government, and the offer was thus illegal to accept in any manner. Already before the meeting, the Trump campaign knew the source and purpose of the offer of aid, still welcomed the offer, successfully hid it for a year, and when the meeting was finally exposed, Trump issued a deceptive press release about it.
By contrast, Steele's work was a legal, declared, campaign expense [] and did not involve any voluntary offer of aid to the Clinton campaign from the Russian government. FEC law allows such declared campaign expenditures, even if the aid is performed by foreigners. President Trump has deliberately and regularly conflated the two, arguing that the former meeting was innocuous and that the real malfeasance—the real collusion—was between Clinton's campaign and those Russians who were speaking to Steele. Sign Up , it unlocks many cool features! text 1. raw download clone embed print report. Steele's efforts, even though the political origins ofthe Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.
collectively referred to as the "Steele dossier"-that pertained to topfind Couldn't preview file. There was a problem loading more pages. PDF is a hugely popular format for documents simply because it is independent of the hardware or application used to create that file. This means it can be viewed across multiple devices, regardless of the underlying operating system. The iconic PDF: a digital document file format developed by Adobe in the early s. PDFs are very useful on their own, but sometimes it's desirable to convert them into another type of document file. This is easy to do with the right soft. NO BULL. With questions from Congress — Rep. Adam Schiff D-CA and Rep. court records WHO KNEW WHAT AND WHEN? The Steele Dossier purposely does not publish news articles from The Right or The Left. No edits. Moreover, this untelevised examination was conducted by attorneys for Senator Grassley R-IA and Senator Feinstein D-CA Thanks and God Bless America! This is the full Mueller Report, as released on April 18, , by the U.
Department of Justice. A reprint of the report exactly as it was issued by the government, it is without analysis or commentary from any other source and with nothing subtracted except for the material redacted by the Department of Justice. The mission of the Mueller investigation was to examine Russian interference in the Presidential election, consisting of possible links, or "collusion," between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russian government of Vladimir Putin as well as any allegations of obstruction of justice in this regard. It was also intended to detect and prosecute, where warranted, any other crimes that surfaced during the course of the investigation. The report consists of a detailed summary of the various investigations and inquiries that the Special Counsel and colleagues carried out in these areas.
The investigation was initiated in the aftermath of the firing of FBI Director James Comey by Donald Trump on May 9, The FBI, under Director Comey, had already been investigating links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, , and the Department of Justice released the redacted report one month later. The names of the Americans involved are well-known—Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page—but here Harding also shines a light on powerful Russian figures like Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Sergey Kislyak, whose motivations and instructions may have been coming from the highest echelons of the Kremlin. Readers will know what said between Fusion GPS Founder Simpson and former MI-6 Spy Christopher Steele. No Bias. No Bull: This book intentionally does not contain articles from the media or quotes from Cable-TV.
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Starting with the Trump impeachment hearings, Bongino works forward and backward to piece together the connections of a vast, well-funded cabal of wealthy Democrats and D. swamp elite to the non-stop deluge of manufactured scandals launched specifically to attack, destabilize, and ultimately remove Trump and his administration.
Download Behind The Steele Dossier full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Behind The Steele Dossier ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available! and this is the one you want to read. Fusion GPS was founded in by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal who decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms—and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of , they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. To help them make sense of what they were seeing, Simpson and Fritsch engaged the services of a former British intelligence agent and Russia expert named Christopher Steele.
Those memos made their way to U. intelligence agencies, and then to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump. On January 10, , the Steele dossier broke into public view, and the Trump-Russia story reached escape velocity. At the time, Fusion GPS was just a ten-person consulting firm tucked away above a Starbucks near Dupont Circle, but it would soon be thrust into the center of the biggest news story on the planet—a story that would lead to accusations of witch hunts, a relentless campaign of persecution by congressional Republicans, bizarre conspiracy theories, lawsuits by Russian oligarchs, and the Mueller report.
In Crime in Progress, Simpson and Fritsch tell their story for the first time—a tale of the high-stakes pursuit of one of the biggest, most important stories of our time—no matter the costs. The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. the most thorough and riveting account. It weaves together tales of international intrigue, cyber espionage, and superpower rivalry. After U. political targets and exploited WikiLeaks to disseminate information that could affect the election. The Russians were wildly successful and the great break-in of was no "third-rate burglary. At the end of the day, Trump, the candidate who pursued business deals in Russia, won.
And millions of Americans were left wondering, what the hell happened? This story of high-tech spying and multiple political feuds is told against the backdrop of Trump's strange relationship with Putin and the curious ties between members of his inner circle -- including Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn -- and Russia. Russian Roulette chronicles and explores this bizarre scandal, explains the stakes, and answers one of the biggest questions in American politics: How and why did a foreign government infiltrate the country's political process and gain influence in Washington? Is it true? Was Steele credible? Simpson says that he was opposed to Trump, but does he think there was collusion with the Russians? What about Bruce and Nellie Ohr? Author Daniel David Elles was on the ballot for Michigan House of Representatives as an Independent in Macomb County, Michigan — Home of the Reagan Democrats.
In February, he wrote about Simpson specifically stating that the FBI had an internal human source in the Trump Campaign. Three months later it hit the news networks. What facts are the mainstream media failing to tell us? NO BIAS. NO BULL. With questions from Congress — Rep. Adam Schiff D-CA and Rep. court records WHO KNEW WHAT AND WHEN? The Steele Dossier purposely does not publish news articles from The Right or The Left. No edits. Moreover, this untelevised examination was conducted by attorneys for Senator Grassley R-IA and Senator Feinstein D-CA Thanks and God Bless America!
This is the full Mueller Report, as released on April 18, , by the U. Department of Justice. A reprint of the report exactly as it was issued by the government, it is without analysis or commentary from any other source and with nothing subtracted except for the material redacted by the Department of Justice. The mission of the Mueller investigation was to examine Russian interference in the Presidential election, consisting of possible links, or "collusion," between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russian government of Vladimir Putin as well as any allegations of obstruction of justice in this regard.
It was also intended to detect and prosecute, where warranted, any other crimes that surfaced during the course of the investigation. The report consists of a detailed summary of the various investigations and inquiries that the Special Counsel and colleagues carried out in these areas. The investigation was initiated in the aftermath of the firing of FBI Director James Comey by Donald Trump on May 9, The FBI, under Director Comey, had already been investigating links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, , and the Department of Justice released the redacted report one month later.
The names of the Americans involved are well-known—Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page—but here Harding also shines a light on powerful Russian figures like Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Sergey Kislyak, whose motivations and instructions may have been coming from the highest echelons of the Kremlin. Readers will know what said between Fusion GPS Founder Simpson and former MI-6 Spy Christopher Steele. No Bias. No Bull: This book intentionally does not contain articles from the media or quotes from Cable-TV. No anonymous sources. No politically biased remarks — from either Party. Behind The Steele Dossier focuses on the Senate Examination of Glenn Simpson — Fusion GPS founder — who hired Steele to research Trump. The world needs to understand the motivations, the objectives, the intentions, etc.
And that is provided by the under oath answers in this book. These unbiased solicitors provided the world with a non-partisan document: clear and concise with a well-planned outline and excellent timeline. Daniel David Elles. Follow the Money exposes the labyrinth of connections between D. Bestselling author, podcast favorite, and Fox News contributor Dan Bongino delivers the third and most shocking of his acclaimed series chronicling the Deep State war against Donald Trump. Starting with the Trump impeachment hearings, Bongino works forward and backward to piece together the connections of a vast, well-funded cabal of wealthy Democrats and D. swamp elite to the non-stop deluge of manufactured scandals launched specifically to attack, destabilize, and ultimately remove Trump and his administration. The former Secret Service agent exposes how Glenn Simpson, the corrupt cheerleader behind the lie-filled Steele dossier, wrangled millions from top Democrat donor George Soros to meddle in Ukraine politics.
Michael Flynn, which was stoked by a Flynn-fixated paid operative named Stefan Halper. Follow the Money displays dizzying detective work from a truly relentless, passionate, and patriotic reporter. An astonishing chronicle of the relentless war to destroy Donald Trump and his administration, this exposé is a must-read for anyone who wants to unravel the most shocking and corrupt campaign to unseat a sitting president in American history. This book confirms the most incredible American paranoias about Russian malevolence. In House of Trump, House of Putin, Craig Unger methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the highest echelons of American political operatives and the biggest players in the frightening underworld of the Russian Mafia.
Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key component in its attempts to return to imperial greatness. Without Russia, Trump would not be president. Skip to content. Behind The Steele Dossier Download Behind The Steele Dossier full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Crime in Progress. Author : Glenn Simpson,Peter Fritsch Publsiher : Random House Total Pages : Release : Genre : Political Science ISBN : GET BOOK. Download Crime in Progress Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle. Russian Roulette. Author : Michael Isikoff,David Corn Publsiher : Twelve Total Pages : Release : Genre : Political Science ISBN : GET BOOK. Download Russian Roulette Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle. The Steele Dossier. Author : Daniel David Elles Publsiher : Daniel David Elles Total Pages : Release : Genre : Political Science ISBN : GET BOOK.
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Download The Steele Dossier Type: PDF Date: August Size: MB Author: The Conservative Treehouse This document was uploaded by user and they confirmed that they steele-dossier Contributed by Chris McGimpsey-Jones (Freedom Publishers Union) p. 1 CONFIDENTIAL/SENSITIVESOURCECOMPANYINTELLIGENCEREPORT/USPRESIDENTIALELECTION:REPUBLICANCANDIDATEDONALDTRUMP’SACTIVITIESINRUSSIAANDCOMPROMISINGRELATIONSHIPWITHTHEKREMLINSummary Steele dossier - Free download as PDF File .pdf) or read online for free. Trump Intelligence Allegations Trump Intelligence Allegations Open navigation menu Close The Steele dossier, also known as the Trump–Russia dossier, [1] [2] [3] is a controversial political opposition research report written from June to December , containing allegations 26/11/ · Download Behind The Steele Dossier Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Behind The Steele Dossier puts every reader in the center of the action – from the Steele Dossier’s Christopher Steele, Dossier, Russia, Election, Collection opensource Language English The page dossier, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, ... read more
On October 27, , Robert S. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Steele's biases and motivations toward Trump appear to have changed over time. The intelligence community and most experts have treated the dossier with caution due to its unverified allegations, that Trump denounced as fake news. remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.
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