Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who compiled a dossier on Donald Trump.
The FBI’s counterintelligence operation into whether Russia was assisting the Trump campaign was not prompted by the dossier. But the FBI was aware of the document and used Steele as a source. The FBI even obtained a secret court order to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page after convincing a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that there was probable cause to believe he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, Russia.
Neither case is confirmed by the Mueller report. Mueller was looking for criminal acts, not seeking to confirm the dossier. In fact, Steele is rarely mentioned in the more than 400 pages. So one cannot necessarily say the Mueller report ends the matter, given a continuing counterintelligence investigation. But some key elements certainly appear in doubt.
Talks on the project continued even as Trump pursued the presidency — and Trump aide Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to misleading Congress about those efforts. But a case could also be made that the memo’s political analysis about Russia’s motivations might have been made by any close reader of the newspapers. By the time this memo was written, The Washington Post had already broken the news that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee.
“Further evidence of extensive conspiracy between campaign team and Kremlin, sanctioned at highest levels and involving Russian diplomatic staff based in the US. Agreed exchange of information established in both directions.” This memo makes the strongest suggestion of coordination and collusion — a “conspiracy” — between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
“TRUMP associate admits Kremlin behind recent appearance of DNC e-mails on WikiLeaks, as means of maintaining plausible deniability.” This is correct. Mueller concluded that Russia distributed hacked material through WikiLeaks, as well as fictitious online personas “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0.” The report noted: “The presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump showed interest in WikiLeaks’s releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton.
We already know the dossier was fake idiots. And we know that Mueller, who you all fought to keep him from getting fired, found no collusion after 2 yrs. Just stop with the fake news.
Who wrote this POS they should be fired? You all are gonna look so stupid very shortly mojo_law their lawsuit has now revealed Executive offices under Obama has Hillary’s deleted emails! She lied to Congress under oath and Comey helped hide them! Hire me I can do real reporting!
Bob Mueller looked like an Olympic runner trying to run from the 'Dossier'. How do you explain a Russian Disinformation document being used as the predicate for a Counter Intelligence investigation into Russian interference. The boys at the GRU must be laughing hysterically.
SPY? Ouch that's offensive language isn't it? Ahhhahahaha
Reminder: the Steele Dossier is what RUSSIANS said to Christopher Steele, a foreign national. Steele paid Russians for information, Fusion GPS paid Steele, Perkins Coie paid Fusion, Hillary paid Perkins Coie....there’s the collusion.
“... thus, Page’s activities in Russia — as described in his emails with the Campaign — were not fully explained.”
Steele doc was all Fake news just like the wp
Why does Steele continue to refuse any attempt to get him on record? Everyone else involved in this has testified, but he keeps refusing. If Trump’s reaction to the report implies guilt, what does this say? In the Dems own words...if he’s innocent he has nothing to hide.
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Boy, there are some really lazy thinkers out in the world.
Fact check, the dossier was supposed to be raw intelligence and the mueller report contained no counter intelligince material so this is a stupid comparison.
Christopher Steele is a British agent working for Hillary payed money to Russia for lies about our President. Brenan, Clapper, Lynch et al are coup coconspirtors.
What’s funny about the mental exercise that was just demonstrated by the writer here is the failure to acknowledge that the garbage called Steel Dossier was never supposed to be used to obtain anything from FISA Court, but Comey, Strozk & McCabe did. They must go to jail!
Oh. Ok. We’re back to discussing “what the Steele dossier said.” Seems legit.
Trump is still your president!
We already know the facts of the Steele dossier... do u?
What a piece of trash said vs the facts
Is this the same dossier that was paid for by a Republican and portions of have been confirmed?
It said no Trump Russian collusion ! You lied for three years to promote your political agenda!
Both outlined gobsmacking corruption.
Both said DonaldTrump is corrupt President.
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