Former Senior FBI Official Is Leading BuzzFeeds Effort to Verify Trump Dossier

[MelissaB]

Source: Foreign Policy

Anthony Ferrante coordinated the U.S. government’s response to Russian election interference. Now he’s helping a news site defend itself from a Russian billionaire’s lawsuit.

For the last six months, a team led by a former top FBI and White House cybersecurity official has been traveling the globe on a secret mission to verify parts of the Trump dossier, according to four sources familiar with different aspects of the ongoing probe.

Their client: BuzzFeed, the news organization that first published the dossier on U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, which is now being sued over its explosive allegations.

The investigation, being conducted by FTI Consulting, is running in parallel to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in Kremlin-directed efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. With the special counsel probe under wraps, the BuzzFeed court case could represent the first public airing of an investigation into the veracity of some of the dossier’s claims.

FTI is a Washington-based business advisory firm that specializes in areas ranging from corporate litigation to forensic accounting, and it is a frequent post-government landing pad for FBI officials.



Read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/12/former-senior-fbi-official-is-leading-buzzfeeds-effort-to-verify-trump-dossier/

[Gothmog]

1. A significant amount of the Dossier has been confirmed

[Fred Sanders]

2. As evidenced by three renewals by FISA...that fact leaves cons fleeing.

[BobTheSubgenius]

3. Apparently, Russian oligarchs need to project integrity and altruism.

Who knew?

[Major Nikon]

4. Hopefully they will countersue Trump and make him pay for the investigation

[NewJeffCT]

5. "possible colllusion"

don't you know, Trump has said "no collusion" over and over and over. The more times he says that, the truer it becomes.



There is absolutely no consciousness of guilt going on, nope, none at all.

[HopeAgain]

6. I just hope this doesn't interfere with the Mueller investigation. nt

[riversedge]

8. That is a good possibilty.

[ffr]

7. Hurry! Begin arresting conservatives en masse!

You can start with conservative traitors McConnell and Ryan. That'll pull the trap door on this whole "we cannot impeach a sitting conservative traitor pResident."

[canetoad]

9. This is good.

We tend to look at this investigation as bony, old but brave and principled Robert Mueller and a couple of eager assistants versus all the repulsive evil forces in the universe.

This ain't true. Plenty of other individuals, companies, governments, may have very good reasons for wanting to see the end of Trump. And it looks like they may be joining forces. Disparate entities joined by the common aim of bringing Trump down. The odds are against him.