What you need to know about Christopher Steele, the FBI and the Trump 'dossier'

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

What you need to know about Christopher Steele, the FBI and the Trump ‘dossier’

By Glenn Kessler January 9 at 3:00 AM

-snip-

All of this may be confusing to readers, so here’s what we know about Steele, Fusion GPS and the FBI.

The Facts

As we have explained before, Fusion GPS was started by a group of former Wall Street Journal reporters, notably investigative reporter Glenn R. Simpson. The firm says it “provides premium research, strategic intelligence, and due diligence services to corporations, law firms, and investors worldwide.”

Fusion in 2015 began investigating Trump under a contract with the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website financially supported by GOP megadonor Paul Singer. That assignment ended once Trump was on track to win the nomination. But in April 2016, Fusion was hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to keep funding the research. (Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained the firm.)

In early June, Fusion hired Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, to examine Trump’s ties in Russia. The dossier is actually several memos, based on conversations with Russian sources, that were written between June and October of 2016.

On June 14, The Washington Post reported that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer network of the DNC. Six days later, Steele finished his first memo.

“Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years,” Steele’s memo began. “Aim, endorsed by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, has been to encourage splits in division in western alliance.” The memo further claims that Trump and “his inner circle” have accepted “a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin” and that Russia had enough compromising material on Trump to blackmail him.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-christopher-steele-the-fbi-and-the-dossier/

[Iliyah]

1. Seems like Russia is "blackmailing" the whole lot of the Republican party.

Will the blackmail info come out? Yep.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. This is very helpful.

It would do well on the General Discussion forum.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I read/heard that The Moron was persued by Russia

for years (as one of many Putin plans to fuck with the US). Then The Moron was persuing meeting with Putin since he loves dictators so much. Putin kept ignoring him and his attempts for a while.