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Great article:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-inside-story-of-christopher-steeles-trump-dossier
"On Tuesday, two of the Presidents most prolific accusers plan to disrupt the narrative by telling their own story. Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the co-founders of the Washington-based private-investigative firm Fusion GPS, which has mined deep veins of muck on Trump for years, at the behest of his various political enemies, will try to throw the book at Trump with the publication of Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump.
Fusion was the firm that hired the former British spy Christopher Steele to research Trumps ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign. After nearly three years without a word from Steele, while the so-called pee tape and his other sensational findings sparked furious controversy, the former M.I.6 spy speaks directly and on the record about his own part for the first time in the book, an advance copy of which was given to The New Yorker.
Whether Simpson and Fritschs score-settling, tell-all account will change any minds remains to be seen, but they present a mountain of evidence that Trumps dealings with corrupt foreign playersparticularly those from the former Soviet Unionare both real and go back decades. Steeles dossier has been debated, denounced, derided, and occasionally defended almost since the moment it was first published, in January, 2017, by BuzzFeed News, against Steeles wishes. Although Carl Bernstein helped to break the news of its existence on CNN, his friend and Watergate-reporting partner Bob Woodward dismissed it almost instantly as garbage. During impeachment-hearing testimony last week, the former White House national-security adviser Fiona Hill, one of Americas foremost experts on Russia and a professional acquaintance of Steeles, described the dossier as a rabbit hole and suggested that Steele may have been played. But the authors defend Steeles work, and their own, arguing that it has proved strikingly right.
As the authors tell it, they became obsessed with Trump almost accidentally. Their involvement in his campaign began as a business proposition. In the past, they had worked mostly for corporate clients, but in 2012 they had also done some political-opposition research on the Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. (They declined to disclose their client.) So, in 2015, as Trump gained momentum, but before he clinched the nomination, Simpson and Fritsch again decided to look for political work. After firing off a quick e-mail to a big conservative donor they knew who disliked Trump, they were hired. They dont identify that donor but note, helpfully, that he arranged for them to contract their opposition-research assignment through the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative Web site known to be funded by Paul Singer, a New York hedge-fund magnate. Once Trump secured the nomination, however, the G.O.P. donor fled."
Lots more at link.
klook
(12,151 posts)Looks like a must-read. Rachel says its the best book on the subject.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)good and has a lot of info.
triron
(21,981 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,570 posts)If there's anything in it that's a big surprise, I would expect they would be at least interviewed, but my guess is that whatever they've written about that's significant is already known to the investigators.
triron
(21,981 posts)Democrats must have a lot that they're keeping under wraps.
EndlessWire
(6,448 posts)They testified before the Judiciary in August of 2017. 312 pages of very interesting testimony. They became so alarmed that they attempted to notify the FBI themselves.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)how fucked up shithole and his cronies are.
PSPS
(13,576 posts)I'll stick with Fiona Hill's description of it as a "rabbit hole."
EndlessWire
(6,448 posts)Since they had already testified in 2017 about the origin of the dossier, and since they had attempted to notify the FBI themselves, I don't think they are just pimping their book. Certainly, they want to sell their book But there was important info in their testimony document that no one cared about, apparently. So, bring it out. The election is coming!
eleny
(46,166 posts)I'll make up my own mind.