Hillary Clinton unaware of dossier before it was published

[CousinIT]

Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton was unaware of the now-infamous dossier of allegations about Donald Trump and Russia prior to Buzzfeed's publishing of the document earlier this year, a source familiar with the matter has told CNN.

Clinton was disappointed that the research from the document was not made public before she lost the 2016 election, the source said.

The New York Times first reported on Wednesday that Clinton didn't know about the dossier until it was published, citing two associates who discussed the matter with her.

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Clinton is not the only high-profile Democrat to deny knowledge of the document before it was published.

The Clinton campaign's national press secretary, Brian Fallon, tweeted Tuesday about the reported tie between the campaign and the dossier.

"I regret I didn't know about Christopher Steele's hiring pre-election," he tweeted, referring to the former British intelligence agent who authored the dossier. "If I had, I would have volunteered to go to Europe and try to help him."

"If I'd gotten his dossier before Nov 8, I may have tried to convince Mook & Podesta to let me hold a Comey-style press conference to read it," Fallon, who is now a CNN political contributor, tweeted.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/hillary-clinton-dossier-buzzfeed/index.html

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. So, why DIDN'T they make this shit public before the Nazi-in-Chief stole the election?

The American electorate had a right to know everything about this creep!!

[leftofcool]

3. Mitch McConnell

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. What about him?

[NewJeffCT]

17. He said that if Democrats brought up anything about Trump and Russia

he would slam it as partisan politics and not a real issue. With the RW control of the media, it would have drowned out whatever Clinton or (more likely) her surrogates said on the issue.

[B2G]

6. They thought she was going to win. nt

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. Hope we neva again make mistake of not usin ALL available oppo research &take ANY election 4 granted

[Mediumsizedhand]

15. Are you kidding? When she went after him a little she was torn apart by a faction of Dems

stating she was being too negative to Trump and not talking about the issues.

One of those, can't win either way, right?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

16. YOU must be kiddin... too negative on tRump? How's that even remotely possible?

Never heard that... besides, can always be critically negative about your opponent AND positive on the issues. Like walking and chewing gum at the same time.

[Mediumsizedhand]

18. You didn't hear that? It was the number one reason she lost the election by a faction of our Party.

Number one. All the shit, and that was absolutely the reason Clinton lost.

And yes. Clinton figured the same, hence the way she ran her campaign and a point many of us made.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

25. Didn't hear that... agree with your point.

[B2G]

19. I don't remember it like that at all. nt

[leftofcool]

2. If HIllary had known about the dossier, she would have used it.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. Would hope so... so who's the idiot responsible for not informing Hillary?

Hope whomeva that is never lands another campaign gig.

[B2G]

20. My money is on DSW.

And she won't.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

24. Haha, no... and good thing too!!

[Iliyah]

5. Remember right before Nov 2016, anti-trump gopers were tweeting about

documents showing how bigly nasty and ugly t-rump was and that it needed to be exposed. They were talking about the Steel Dossier.

[Not Ruth]

7. Did anybody know?

[sagesnow]

8. Then why did the Post report that

HRC funded the Russian Dossier last Tuesday?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141896850

[LanternWaste]

9. You're confusing funding research that led to a conclusion with the conclusion itself.

You're confusing funding research that led to a conclusion with the conclusion itself.

[uponit7771]

11. WAPO reporter also showed no proof of the "lie" that was told to her

[triron]

13. Yet the media treats it as gospel. wtf?

[sagesnow]

10. Who in the DNC authorized the

money to pay Fusion GPS for the Russian Dossier?

[Azathoth]

22. The money was paid by Clinton's campaign lawyer

All the money that was funneled to the lawyer by both the campaign and the DNC was reported as being for "legal services," so it's impossible to tell which funds were specifically to retain Fusion GPS.