Was The Steele Dossier Mentioned At All In The Mueller Report?.....

[global1]

If so, in what context?

I haven't been able to read the report yet.

[hlthe2b]

1. Well, I have a searchable copy and nothing comes up... But I haven't gotten through the whole thing.

I suppose there could be a footnote not caught by the search function, but it seems not.

[teach1st]

2. Well, there's this from CNN

Mueller investigated rumored compromising tapes of Trump in Moscow

Washington (CNN) Special counsel Robert Mueller examined whether President Donald Trump learned during the 2016 presidential campaign of the rumored existence of compromising tapes made of him years earlier when he visited Moscow, according to a redacted version of Mueller's report.

According to a footnote in the special counsel's report, which was released Thursday, Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze in October 2016 that said: "Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else. Just so you know..."

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[former9thward]

3. It was mentioned and disproven.

From the New York Times:

But the release on Thursday of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, underscored what had grown clearer for months — that while many Trump aides had welcomed contacts with the Russians, some of the most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove. Mr. Mueller’s report contained over a dozen passing references to the document’s claims but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out.

Now the dossier — financed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and compiled by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele — is likely to face new, possibly harsh scrutiny from multiple inquiries.

Republicans in Congress have vowed to investigate. The Justice Department’s inspector general is considering whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly relied on the dossier in applying to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a warrant to eavesdrop on Carter Page, a Trump adviser. The inspector general wants to know what the F.B.I. learned about Mr. Steele’s sources and whether it disclosed any doubts about their veracity to the court.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/steele-dossier-mueller-report.html

[JonLP24]

7. I knew it had something to do with Carter Paige

The Dossier seemed to call out the right people. He was a MI6 agent on diplomatic cover working out of an embassy in Moscow so he has relevant experience plus he was a credible FBI informant all the way up until this.

[Hortensis]

13. Steele still is credible. He reported what contacts told him,

some of whom are now dead or disappeared, to both British intelligence and the FBI. When the partial report he sent to a contact in the FBI disappeared without sound, and he was seriously concerned for his own safety, he decided to use a journalist, chose David Corn of Mother Jones for his reputation for protecting sources, and ultimately Senator McCain and the British got involved and together pressured the FBI to start investigating the intelligence.

I'm sorry to say, but don't believe the NYT's spin on these stories, which further's the Republicans'. The Times has many fine journalists, but others are very much not, along with some editors, executives and presumably owners. The Times is known and u]proven to to have long consistent patterns of misreporting that benefit Republicans and hurt Democrats. Same for the AP, CNN, MSNBC. No doubt many others.

There are big reasons behind this, and those who believe Democrats are practically as corrupt as Republicans are incredibly blind and foolish.

[JonLP24]

16. I agree

I followed the Steele story as closely reading this book

https://www.amazon.com/Collusion-Secret-Meetings-Russia-Helped/dp/0525562516/ref=asc_df_0525562516/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312695266310&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=578866247524485860&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030029&hvtargid=pla-391461732186&psc=1

highlights the FBI field office in New York which was reported to be 'Trumpland' along with the media were more interested in chasing the email story rather than follow up on Christopher Steele's leads.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/fbi-leaks-hillary-clinton-james-comey-donald-trump

[.99center]

8. What about the allegation in the dossier that Russia helped Trump win?

Or that Russia sought to sow discord between the U.S. and our allies by electing Trump? Were they also "disproven"?

[uponit7771]

12. That's true, that's why it seems kinda off to claim the dossier has been disproven

[uponit7771]

11. Does it state what percentage of claims were wrong? No one expected Steele Dossier to be 100% right

[ChoppinBroccoli]

4. According To Seth Abramson......

..........in a tweet I saw Sunday morning, there is a reference in the Mueller Report to the SCO finding out about the existence of "compromising" videos from 2013 that, when Trump found out about them in 2016, thought would "end his candidacy." It certainly sounds like SOMEBODY found the pee tape.

[canetoad]

5. It's in the footnotes

Page 239 of 448 (PDF pagination).

112 Comey 1/7/17 Memorandum, at 1-2; Corney I 1/15/17 302, at 3. Corney's briefing included the
Steele reporting's unverified allegation that the Russians had compromising tapes of the President involving
conduct when he was a private citizen during a 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe Pageant. During
the 2016 presidential campaign, a similar claim may have reached candidate Trump. On October 30, 20 I 6,
Michael Cohen received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze that said, "Stopped flow of
tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else. Just so you know .... " 10/30/16 Text Message,
Rtskhiladze to Cohen. Rtskhiladze said "tapes" referred to compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be
held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia. Rtskhiladze 4/4/ l 8 302, at 12. Cohen said he spoke to Trump
about the issue after receiving the texts from Rtskhiladze. Cohen 9/ 12/ 18 302, at 13. Rtskhiladze said he
was told the tapes were fake, but he did not communicate that to Cohen. Rtskhiladze 5/ l 0/ 18 302, at 7.

[.99center]

6. I'm sure the Russian businessman would never lie to our FBI.

Case closed.

[.99center]

9. As Mark Warner warned last year, Mueller didn't investigate

Trump's financial ties with Russia. Since Mueller never crossed Trump's red line, it's still a mystery if the dossier was correct about Putin having financial kompromat on Trump.

[JonLP24]

10. I wonder why the media reported this?

Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier

EDITOR’S NOTE: Robert Mueller’s report to the attorney general states that Mr. Cohen was not in Prague. It is silent on whether the investigation received evidence that Mr. Cohen’s phone pinged in or near Prague, as McClatchy reported.

The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.


Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a retired British spy’s report that Cohen strategized there with a powerful Kremlin figure about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html


Here is an update of that Buzzfeed story

much information as possible about how the story came to be.

Our story was based on detailed information from senior law enforcement sources. That reporting included documents — specifically, pages of notes that were taken during an interview of Cohen by the FBI. In those notes, one law enforcement source wrote that “DJT personally asked Cohen to say negotiations ended in January and White House counsel office knew Cohen would give false testimony to Congress. Sanctioned by DJT. Joint lawyer team reviewed letter Cohen sent to SSCI about his testimony about Trump Tower moscow, et al, knowing it contained lies.”

The law enforcement source also wrote: “Cohen told OSC” — the Office of Special Counsel — “he was asked to lie by DJT/DJT Jr., lawyers.”

At the time, the sources asked reporters to keep the information confidential, but with the publication of Mueller’s report they have permitted its release.

The Mueller report finds that Cohen lied, that he did so at what he believed to be the president’s behest, that the president knew he was giving false testimony, and that the president’s lawyers encouraged that testimony. In his report, Mueller wrote that Trump’s attorney told Cohen to “stay on message, and not contradict the President.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/how-we-characterized-michael-cohens-testimony

[JustAnotherGen]

14. 142 of 16,047 - WaPo on Kindle

The investigation was charged from the start. It was highly unusual for the FBI to examine advisers of a leading presidential candidate in the middle of a campaign. Plus, the bureau had to sort out explosive but unverified allegations of Trump-Russia coordination slipped to agents in the summer of 2016 that came to be known as the “Steele Dossier.”The dossier had been commissioned by Fusion GPS, a Washington opposition research firm, and was funded by the Clinton campaign. It alleged that the Russians held salacious compromising material about Trump and that the Republican candidate had entered into a conspiracy with Russia to win the election. The FBI had worked previously with the dossier’s author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, and believed he was credible, although the document was a political product, commissioned by Trump’s opponents. Trump and his allies would later argue that the FBI’s investigation was tainted from the start by its reliance on Steele’s work.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Other Relevant Individuals Section

Christopher Steele: A former officer with the British intelligence service MI6, Christopher Steele was hired by the private US political-intelligence firm Fusion GPS to research Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. From June to December 2016, he submitted a series of reports that came to be known collectively as the “Steele Dossier,”which alleged the Russians held compromising information about Trump and that Trump’s campaign was conspiring with a Russian government effort to win him the election. The research, which was rejected by Trump, was funded by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.