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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-once-planned-to-pay-former-british-spy-who-authored-controversial-trump-dossier/2017/02/28/896ab470-facc-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?utm_term=.aa6ffed630d8boston bean
(36,219 posts)The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts.
While Trump has derided the dossier as fake news compiled by his political opponents, the FBIs arrangement with Steele shows that bureau investigators considered him credible and found his line of inquiry to be worthy of pursuit.
Ultimately, the FBI did not pay Steele. Communications between the bureau and the former spy were interrupted as Steeles now-famous dossier became the subject of news stories, congressional inquiries and presidential denials, according to the people familiar with the arrangement, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
At the time of the October agreement, FBI officials probing Russian activities, including possible contacts between Trump associates and Russian entities, were aware of the information that Steele had been gathering while working for a Washington research firm hired by supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the people familiar with the agreement. The firm was due to stop paying Steele as Election Day approached, but Steele felt his work was not done, these people said.
theglammistress
(348 posts)Here's the first three graphs:
"The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trumps political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election for the bureau to pay him to continue his work, according to several people familiar with the arrangement.
The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts.
While Trump has derided the dossier as fake news compiled by his political opponents, the FBIs arrangement with Steele shows that bureau investigators considered him credible and found his line of inquiry to be worthy of pursuit."
The FBI didn't end up paying Steele. The crux here is that Steele's report is VERY credible and the FBI took action on it. Once again, putting a wrench in Trump's cry that the Russia business is all "fake."
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,930 posts)The agreement to compensate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele came as U.S. intelligence agencies reached a consensus that the Russians had interfered in the presidential election by orchestrating hacks of Democratic Party email accounts.
While Trump has derided the dossier as fake news compiled by his political opponents, the FBIs arrangement with Steele shows that bureau investigators considered him credible and found his line of inquiry to be worthy of pursuit.
Goes on to say the FBI did not pay him because word got out about the dossier.
boston bean
(36,219 posts)triron
(21,984 posts)where he wears a white hat but comprehensible if one assumes he was out to do Clinton in.