Christopher Steele is a hero and Americans owe him their thanks

[Gothmog]

The attacks on Christopher Steele piss me off. I really believe that this man tried to help our country and that these attacks are pure BS https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/02/14/christopher-steele-is-a-hero-and-americans-owe-him-their-thanks/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3cdc37fc80e5

Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose claims about Donald Trump’s ties with Russia hold center stage in Washington right now, drives Republicans crazy. They have recommended that the Department of Justice open a criminal investigation into his work. They released a formerly classified memo by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) that vilifies him — and now they are holding back a Democratic brief that tries to correct the record. Their Fox News minions have promised damning new revelations about Steele’s perfidy on a near-weekly basis. (Sebastian Gorka called the Nunes memo “one hundred times bigger” than the causes of the American Revolution — hyperbole that seems to have embarrassed even his friends.)

Yet, try as they might, Steele continues to haunt them. You sense it in the tone of frustration and anxiety. “There’s nothing to see here,” they keep insisting. And insisting. And insisting.

What is it about Steele that possesses them so? Could it be that his findings from the summer of 2016 — when the world was still wondering why Trump kept saying such nice things about Russia’s Vladimir Putin — proved so extraordinarily prescient?

Long before the U.S. intelligence community arrived at its conclusion that the Russians were trying to influence the presidential election, Steele had already sussed out the basic ingredients of the campaign. In June 2016, he already knew about ties between the Kremlin and Trump aides (specifically Carter Page and Paul Manafort), and he knew that Russian hackers had stolen documents from the Democratic National Committee that they planned to use against Hillary Clinton. Former CIA agent John Sipher has noted that several of Steele’s early assertions “turned out to be stunningly accurate.”

Last Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) rebuked her Republican colleagues for recommending the criminal probe of Steele. She accused them of trying to undermine the FBI and the investigation being conducted by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, and of attacking Steele as a way of “deflecting attention from collusion and obstruction of justice investigations.” And then she added, almost as an afterthought: “Not a single revelation in the Steele dossier has been refuted.” Ouch!

[BigmanPigman]

1. He had to go into hiding for awhile.

His life was at risk. Yes, he is a hero to me. An overpaid sports figure who scores a few points is NOT a hero even though they are always called one.

[spanone]

14. i bet he's still looking over his shoulder....

[BigmanPigman]

15. If he's as smart as he seems he shohld

also be using something to taste/check his food too.

[Stardust1]

16. Amen

It bugs me to no end how the word Hero has gone from meaning "someone who saves lives" to "guy who wins."

[Iliyah]

2. K & R

[Ligyron]

3. History will avenge and so name him.

He should then be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[monmouth4]

7. Oh, what a great idea. I so hope that happens down the road..n/t

[pnwmom]

4. He IS a hero and a patriot. He knows that the UK and the US are strong allies,

and need to continue working together.

[RDANGELO]

5. If trump is forced out of office before the end of his term,

there is going to be about 30% of the population that will believe it is some kind of a coup because of that lying SOB, who doesn't care about anybody or anything but himself. If there is a God, may he get what he deserves.

[sheshe2]

6. I agree 100%, Gothmog.

[Bradshaw3]

8. He is more of an American partriot than drumpf and his fellow travelers

As Simpson's testimony said, they were concerned for our country. And his career credentials have been impeccable.

[Me.]

9. He Is More Patriotic Than Comrade Trump Could Ever Dream Of Being

and he isn't even an American. Yet the commies on the Con side of the house stomp all over him.

[OnDoutside]

10. The Queen should knight him for services to freedom.

[ProudLib72]

12. Ooohhh!

tRump doesn't get invited to Britain, but the Queen knights Steele! That would be very good optics indeed.

[OnDoutside]

19. Yes, he has done his state, and the United States, enormous service.

If the US turned into a totalitarian regime, what hope for the rest of the western world ?

[world wide wally]

11. Who will play the James Bond villains in the movie?

I mean the parts of Trump, McConnell, Ryan, Nunez, Chafetz, Mulvaney, Kelly, Bannon, Pence, ...etc.

[byronius]

13. He may have saved the United States.

[Enoki33]

17. Not only a hero, but also a patriot. Hard to believe shame would not

prevent the GOP hatchet men from going after him.

[magicarpet]

18. Fascist Rethug world....

The villain is the Saint
And the Saint becomes the villain.

Up is down, right is left, good is bad, upside down backwards - inside out.

These Fascist Traitors have a lot of nerve calling Christopher Steele a criminal instead of the hero he really is.

Shame on them, double shame.

[Cha]

20. Cheers to Christopher Steele..

and the Daily Mail!

[Gothmog]

21. The latest Mueller indictments confirm even more of the Steele dossier