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Former British spy Christopher Steele visited the State Department in October 2016 and briefed officials there about his work on the anti-Trump dossier.
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele was responsible for compiling the notorious anti-Trump dossier that was used by the FBI to justify spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Yahoo News report Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones magazine’s David Corn are out with a new book on the Trump/Russia sage, titled “Russian Roulette.”
Steele’s business partner at their private intelligence firm is even less certain, and the founder of Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the dossier, also has his doubts.
Bruce Ohr, a former deputy associate attorney general at the Department of Justice, reportedly failed to disclose that his wife had been receiving payments from Fusion GPS, a firm paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC to produce opposition research on President Trump.
The Republican-led investigation into the infamous anti-Trump dossier has recently revealed several intriguing links between Christopher Steele, lawyers, lobbyists, Democratic politicians, a former State Department official, and a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.
The origin story of the 35-page document was pretty simple at the outset. Fusion GPS, which was investigating then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, hired former British spy Christopher Steele to write the dossier.
Former British spy Christopher Steele is resisting efforts to face a deposition in a lawsuit over his infamous dossier. Steele’s lawyers argued in a court in London that a deposition would put the former spy’s dossier sources at risk as well as endanger U.K. national security interests.
On Friday, President Trump finally approved the contents of the memo drafted by staffers of Representative Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. What the memo revealed was nothing short of damning.