The British ex-spy behind the Trump dossier was an FBI asset

[pnwmom]

Source: Yahoo

The man behind the sensational story concerning information the Russian government had supposedly collected about Donald Trump is a former British intelligence operative and was a longtime intelligence source for the U.S. government who had assisted the FBI during an investigation into corruption by FIFA, the world soccer association, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The operative — identified today by the Wall Street Journal as Christopher Steele, a former Russian operations officer for Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency — had worked as a consultant for the FBI’s Eurasian organized crime section, helping to develop information about ties between suspected Russian gangsters and FIFA, said one of the sources, who is directly familiar with Steele’s work.

Steele had been hired originally to investigate Trump by his political opponents, and he decided to share his information with the FBI last year. The preexisting relationship between Steele and U.S. officials is one reason the FBI took the operative’s allegations seriously when he first turned over a written dossier, filled with uncorroborated “raw intelligence” about Trump, to one of the bureau’s agents in Rome last summer, the sources said.

The credibility of some of those allegations is now in question after Trump, at a news conference, denounced the claims as completely false and attacked the news media for circulating them — and the intelligence community for including a two-page summary of the explosive charges in a classified briefing that was given to President Obama, to congressional leaders, and to Trump himself.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier-was-former-british-spy-004221154.html

[atreides1]

1. I seem to recall

That Nixon denied any part in Watergate, Reagan denied any part in the Iran-Contra incident...just because Trump denounced it, doesn't mean it's not all true!!!

[lapfog_1]

2. Bush / TANG / Rather EQUALS Trump / GoldenShowers / CNN

we got played again. The person or persons who leaked the GoldenShowers story WAS the Trump campaign (or assets associated with them).

Trump is going to use this to

1. Discredit the financial dealings that he has with Russian Oligarchs

2. Ask for new Libel Laws to shield him from "fake news" (and to silence the press)

3. to discredit Buzzfeed and CNN

4. define what is and is not "fake news"

5. Train the press (they value ACCESS over anything) into only doing positive stories on Trump

[pnwmom]

3. BBC is saying that there are multiple sources for that report.

I don't think we know how this is going to play out yet. You may be right but I think it's too early to know.

[roamer65]

4. I think it's legit and there is more to come.

[Cha]

16. I'm going with that from what I've read..

we will see down the road who was closest in actuality.

[zentrum]

13. Pretty much agree with you.

I think we're being played in a double fake out to make the intel on the real corruption look untrustable.

I'm sure there's a spy term for this kind of double-back twist.

[Vinca]

24. Trump's not that smart. More likely than not someone peed on him.

[neohippie]

26. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain

Trump may not be that smart, but who is the man behind the great and wonderful businessman, why Putin is smart and Russia clearly has mastered the art of fake news and disinformation, they could have set this all up to discredit the intelligence agencies here further they are playing the long con here in my opinion

[Grey Lemercier]

25. I agree 100% with the fallout you list, the consequeneces

Not 100% convinced it was Trump himself who ordered it leaked.

[mopinko]

5. m'kay

"The credibility of some of those allegations is now in question after Trump, at a news conference, denounced the claims as completely false"

rly?

[yardwork]

7. But meanwhile, Hillary's emails....

[Merlot]

8. that caught my eye too.

Because anyone was expecting him to say "ya got me, it's all true"

[triron]

10. How credible is anything Trump says???!!!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

15. OMG, what a joke.

Let's not even investigate. I mean, Liar J. McLiely has denied it all. Case closed!

[Cha]

17. You speak truth and did not need the "sarcasm"

thingy.

I read you like a book. lol

Stormy

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

18. Lulz. Well, you never can be too careful.

I would hate for some troll traipsing through here to misread one of my posts as support for the Pussy-Grabbing-Traitor-in-Chief Elect!

Glad you know me better than that, though, Cha.

[Cha]

20. lol.. that's true.. I forgot about the alert and jury

system momentarily.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Credibility

It's hard to disprove things, but prickly indignation is insufficient proof

[Rex]

9. So how many years has the FBI been playing games with the country?

Amazing, this makes 2000 look like a kiddie ride.

[burrowowl]

11. Interesting!!!!

[KittyWampus]

12. I'd say the credibility is RAISED with the way Trump gosh-galloped. He's a proven liar.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. I'd be willing to be he lies more than he tells the truth.

He will say anything, won't he, in the service of self-aggrandizement and escaping responsibility for his wrong-doings? It's astounding.

[Kablooie]

14. I hope someone will be able to verify the info. Otherwise it's nothing but tabloid blather...

and Trump will come out the winner.

[Bad Dog]

22. The colour of his ridiculous barnet

is verification enough. I think it's called prozzie piss orange.

[Bad Dog]

21. He's now been forced into hiding.

An ex-MI6 officer who is believed to have prepared a memo claiming Russia has compromising material on US President-elect Donald Trump is now in hiding, the BBC understands.

Christopher Steele, who runs a London-based intelligence firm, is believed to have left his Berkshire home this week.

The memos contain unsubstantiated claims that Russian security officials have compromising material on Mr Trump.

The US president-elect said the claims were "fake news" and "phoney stuff".

Mr Steele has been widely named as the author of a memo - which has been published in some US media - that contains extensive allegations about Mr Trump's personal life and his campaign's relationship with the Russian state.

Among the allegations are that Moscow has a video recording of Mr Trump with prostitutes and damaging information about his business activities.


BBC news correspondent Paul Wood said he understood Mr Steele left his home in Berkshire on either Tuesday or Wednesday, before he was publicly named, and was now "in hiding".

He said he had been told Mr Steele had asked his neighbour to look after his cats.

Our correspondent said he had been shown the memos about Mr Trump in October last year, when he was told Mr Steele was "in fear of his life", having spoken out about potential Russian involvement in Mr Trump's election.

He said he had been told by members of the intelligence community that Mr Steele was "extremely, highly regarded" and was thought of as "competent".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38591382

[KewlKat]

23. Stay safe Mr Steele.

[inwiththenew]

27. I think it's Russia again behind all of this

Bear with me because this might get a little far fetched.

Russia gets wind that Steele, who has to be known to Russia, is digging around for information. They let out a few stories about Russian security officials having compromising information about Trump with the intent on finding out where the leaks are in their own internal organization.

Now he's in hiding. Why? I going to guess a number of his sources have been "unavailable".

[Coventina]

28. Key word in that headline: "Was".

Mr. Steele is in very grave danger, and I am very worried for him.