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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
22. This is a must read article from last year imho
Tue Jun 4, 2019, 10:28 AM
Jun 2019
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier
Snip (from 2018)
A friend (of Steele) in Washington, D.C., was calling with bad news: two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham and Charles Grassley, had just referred Steele’s name to the Department of Justice, for a possible criminal investigation. They were accusing Steele—the author of a secret dossier that helped trigger the current federal investigation into President Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia—of having lied to the very F.B.I. officers he’d 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 he’d 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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Steele’s 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 tactic—they use declassified information to tell their side, and then the rebuttal is classified.” Both the criminal referral and Nunes’s report used secret evidence to malign Steele while providing no means for his defenders to respond without breaching national-security secrets.
Recommended. H2O Man Jun 2019 #1
K & R MFGsunny Jun 2019 #2
I sense a set up... rather suspicious timing. Hope I'm wrong! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2019 #3
I do too Jarqui Jun 2019 #5
No they don't... hate cockroaches btw!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2019 #8
So who are US officials? watoos Jun 2019 #4
Like one of my favorite senators once said... Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #6
Absolutely, I have been saying the same watoos Jun 2019 #12
Yes! I think the orchestrated smear of Hillary Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #24
Wish we could read whole London times srticle Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #7
My spider-sense is tingling... wondering what the Rethuglican rats are up to. InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2019 #9
I'm guessing he has nothing to hide. watoos Jun 2019 #13
I tend to agree with that, from Steele's perspective..but Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #19
They want to demonize Steele, watoos Jun 2019 #29
Hope his demands are much broader than only Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #36
"Trump, who says he was the victim of a complex hoax that linked him to oligarchs" pazzyanne Jun 2019 #10
That pee part of the zentrum Jun 2019 #11
Trumpers will never leave Trump. watoos Jun 2019 #15
Don't count on it... Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #17
I think you are right..but the key to me is the part about Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #20
That's exactly zentrum Jun 2019 #25
Exactly. It was post Obama's humiliating him Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #33
Or, when that specific detail is shown to be untrue The Mouth Jun 2019 #26
Maybe the fact that Trump is a germophobe watoos Jun 2019 #30
I doubt it The Mouth Jun 2019 #32
See, trump can't keep a secret. It's almost like he Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #37
Plausible The Mouth Jun 2019 #38
Agree. They were likely amassing trump kompromat Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #39
Republican Shenanigans Roy Rolling Jun 2019 #14
Perhaps Mr. Steele withheld some damaging assertions that can be verified. He could NCjack Jun 2019 #16
This could be really bad. lark Jun 2019 #18
This is a must read article from last year imho Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #22
Don't put anything past them. The Mouth Jun 2019 #27
If he wants to talk it should be to Congress. Takket Jun 2019 #21
Yes..a bipartisan environment for sure! If its Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #23
Rudy's boys. watoos Jun 2019 #31
Bet Rudy's deeply involved in this. Nunez too. And i Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #34
I just hope he doesn't get accidentally poisoned Steele needs to wear gloves and a respirator mask kimbutgar Jun 2019 #28
Exactly. If I were him I wouldn't even go to US. Although Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #35
He wisely insists the British government must say yes first. I hope, for his sake, he also insists Hekate Jun 2019 #40
Agree. triron Jun 2019 #41
kick for visibility triron Jun 2019 #42
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