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In reply to the discussion: Christopher Steele, the Trump Dossier Author, to Be Questioned by U.S. Officials [View all]Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)22. This is a must read article from last year imho
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier
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A friend (of Steele) in Washington, D.C., was calling with bad news: two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham and Charles Grassley, had just referred Steeles name to the Department of Justice, for a possible criminal investigation. They were accusing Steelethe author of a secret dossier that helped trigger the current federal investigation into President Donald Trumps possible ties to Russiaof having lied to the very F.B.I. officers hed alerted about his findings. The details of the criminal referral were classified, so Steele could not know the nature of the allegations, let alone rebut them, but they had something to do with his having misled the Bureau about contacts that hed had with the press.
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Legal experts soon assured Steele that the criminal referral was merely a political stunt
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Steeles lawyers have advised him not to speak publicly about the controversy, and, because he is a former intelligence officer, much of his life must remain secret. His accusers know this, and, as Senator Whitehouse explained, they are using selective declassification as a tacticthey use declassified information to tell their side, and then the rebuttal is classified. Both the criminal referral and Nuness report used secret evidence to malign Steele while providing no means for his defenders to respond without breaching national-security secrets.
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Christopher Steele, the Trump Dossier Author, to Be Questioned by U.S. Officials [View all]
babylonsister
Jun 2019
OP
My spider-sense is tingling... wondering what the Rethuglican rats are up to.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2019
#9
"Trump, who says he was the victim of a complex hoax that linked him to oligarchs"
pazzyanne
Jun 2019
#10
Perhaps Mr. Steele withheld some damaging assertions that can be verified. He could
NCjack
Jun 2019
#16
I just hope he doesn't get accidentally poisoned Steele needs to wear gloves and a respirator mask
kimbutgar
Jun 2019
#28