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originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
A book published in November by a correspondent at the Guardian, "Collusion: Secret meetings, dirty money, and how Russia helped Donald Trump win," noted that Steele's 2010 work on the World Cup soccer corruption investigation won him the trust not only of the FBI, but the State Department as well. From author Luke Harding:
The [soccer] episode burnished Steele's reputation inside the U.S. intelligence community and the FBI. Here was a pro, a well-connected Brit, who understood Russian espionage and its subterranean tricks. Steele was regarded as credible. Between 2014 and 2016, Steele authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine. These were written for a private client but shared widely within the State Department and sent up to Secretary of State John Kerry and to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who was in charge of the U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis. Many of Steele's secret sources were the same sources who would supply information on Trump. One former State Department envoy during the Obama administration said he read dozens of Steele's reports on Russia. The envoy said that on Russia, Steele was "as good as the CIA or anyone." Steele's professional reputation inside U.S. agencies would prove important the next time he discovered alarming material, and lit the fuse again.
For the love of God almighty and all that is F'ing Holy, if I hear "THE RUSSIANS DID IT!" one more time, i'm going to go off the handle!
originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
I actually believe the opposite. Look at Bannon yesterday, and also why would the WH demand he not say anything? Does this make you make think uhhh what is going on?
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
Yeah they are afraid that the whole illegal FISA deal will be exposed. Like i said Fusion GPS will be sacrificed next. Just wait for the typical MSM casting doubt on them. I'm enjoying this Steele Dossier trainwreck way too much.
originally posted by: kurthall
originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan
I actually believe the opposite. Look at Bannon yesterday, and also why would the WH demand he not say anything? Does this make you make think uhhh what is going on?
Exactly, and today we hear Bannon wont have to go before the grand jury, because he is going to be interviewed by Muller's team.
www.cnbc.com...
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: smurfy
As shane says, the dossier is full of vague assertions.
When it does get specific, we can often easily prove its inaccurate, such as the story about cohen being in Prague to hep set up the agreement for ccollusion.
Seeing as how we know thats wrong, there are only two possibilities.
1. Steeles soources from the Kremlin lied to him, and by steele and those that funded him (the dnc, hillarys team etc.) pushing this lie, they actually gave the Kremlin the most direct path to hurting faith in our system.
2. Steele made up these claims and pushed them to hurt trump.
There is no getting around that, no matter how well the author of that book knows steele and is certain of things.
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
a reply to: smurfy
Uh huh. That book sounds like it was written by a DNC committee, for the specific purpose of pushing the Russia Narrative.
Clearly, it seems to be trying to set Steele up as some kind of researching genius whose reputation is above reproach.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: visitedbythem
Yeah too bad it's not been proven fake. But you might ask why trump is trying so hard to get people to think it is. He knows it's not that's why.
Infowars isn't a valid source btw.
originally posted by: Allaroundyou
Exactly, and today we hear Bannon wont have to go before the grand jury, because he is going to be interviewed by Muller's team.