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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel has Jane Mayer on. She's talking about Mueller Investigating the DEATH
Of one of Steele's sources.
UTUSN
(70,671 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 5, 2018, 11:12 PM - Edit history (1)
Mayer to RACHEL: "It's going to up to somebody like MUELLER who's got subpoena power..."
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier
How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trumps ties to Russia
Steele told friends that Trump supporters were using him as a battering ram to take down the whole intelligence community.
.... A friend in Washington, D.C., was calling with bad news: two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham and Charles Grassley, had just referred Steeles name to the Department of Justice, for a possible criminal investigation. They were accusing Steelethe author of a secret dossier that helped trigger the current federal investigation into President Donald Trumps possible ties to Russiaof having lied to the very F.B.I. officers hed alerted about his findings. ....
A longtime friend of Steeles pointed out to me that Steele was in a singularly unenviable predicament. The dossier had infuriated both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump by divulging allegedly corrupt dealings between them. Youve got oligarchs running both superpowers, the friend said. And, incredibly, they both hate this same guy. ....
One Orbis client who agreed to talk to me, a Western businessman with interests in Russia and Ukraine, described Steele to me as very efficient, very professional, and very credible. He said that his company had successfully cross-checked Steeles research with other people, adding, I dont know anyone whos been critical of his work. His reports are very good. Its an absolute no-brainer that hes just a political target. Theyre trying to shoot the messenger. ....
Republican claims to the contrary, Steeles interest in Trump did not spring from his work for the Clinton campaign. He ran across Trumps name almost as soon as he went into private business, many years before the 2016 election. Two of his earliest cases at Orbis involved investigating international crime rings whose leaders, coincidentally, were based in New Yorks Trump Tower. ....
For all the Republicans talk of a top-down Democratic plot, Steele and Simpson appear never to have told their ultimate clientthe Clinton campaigns law firmthat Steele had gone to the F.B.I. Clintons campaign spent much of the summer of 2016 fending off stories about the Bureaus investigation into her e-mails, without knowing that the F.B.I. had launched a counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump teams ties to Russiaone fuelled, in part, by the Clinton campaigns own opposition research. As a top Clinton-campaign official told me, If Id known the F.B.I. was investigating Trump, I would have been shouting it from the rooftops! ....
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BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)She was shouting about a lot of very important, criminal activity and the MSM showed an empty stage and podium waiting for the Moron to speak at a campaign rally for 6 months. I was screaming and yelling so much that my neighbors heard me and when he is eventually impeached you will be able to hear me in China I will be so thrilled.
The GOP is corrupt and they're projecting..... period.
They don't want anybody looking at their dirty laundry.
If Hillary cured cancer, created world peace and gave every American one million dollars the GOP would still spin it into some sick crap that their base would repeat like the dimwitted robots that they are.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)exception of https://www.dcreport.org/
I leap to my actual mailbox every Friday in anticipation of what depressing, yet exhilarating delights await
UTUSN
(70,671 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)I just thumb thru, waiting to see what gems await in the Vanderbilt sandbox of my favorite magazine
Cant wait to find it
Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)I love his thoroughness. My crush grows more every day. First Republican to have this effect on me.
ooky
(8,920 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)for all the elections in Europe?????? He is still doing it and laughing while he gets away with it. He is untouchable. He knows we all know what he did but he doesn't care. This is like the Cold War only with technology. Are sanctions the only option???
ooky
(8,920 posts)The POTUS is blocking lawful congressional legislation to enact sanctions. And, he is doing nothing to stop the ensuing Russian interference.
The President of the United States allowed Russia to pick our Secretary of State.
Think about that statement. He reports to Putin. In broad daylight, while the Congress does NOTHING.
For the first time in our history the United States has a dictator. A completly lawless dictator who is giving away the country he swore to protect - to the Russian dictator!
sandensea
(21,615 posts)For over 40 years until the early '90s any and all manner of budgetary squandering and trampling of rights was routinely justified by Republicans with their one tried-and-true excuse: "the Russians are coming."
Well, they're finally here - and the GOPee let them in! Never ceases to amaze me.
ecstatic
(32,677 posts)and nothing would be done. NOTHING except talk. It's so frustrating and infuriating!
triron
(21,990 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Steele went into hiding from fear for his life