With President Trump exonerated of all collusion by the Mueller team, attention is turning to the Clinton funded Steele dossier that started all this, and the potential that it was Russian propaganda meant to discredit Trump and sow division in American society. The Daily Caller reports:
In a deposition for a lawsuit related to the dossier in June 2018, former British spy Christopher Steele acknowledged his infamous report could be the product of Russian disinformation.
But Steele, a former MI6 officer who worked in Moscow, dismissed the possibility he was hoodwinked by Russian operatives who planted anti-Trump dirt.
“All material contained this risk, but that any information that was actually provided would have been subject to scrutiny in respect of this risk,” Steele said in a June 18, 2018, deposition for a lawsuit against BuzzFeed, the original publisher of the dossier.
In other words, Steele believed he had enough experience dealing with Russian sources that he could spot Kremlin attempts to provide him disinformation.
That Steele would be a willing Russian operative remains slim, but that he would have been duped is very likely, especially since he could not corroborate information effectively. Who is ultimately behind this disinformation remains a mystery, but worthy of investigation.
The Attorney General’s summary specifically stated the report did NOT EXONERATE Trump on obstruction of justice, which was one of the main issues being investigated.
High time for full prosecution and execution. The Treason is well documented.
“Who is ultimately behind this disinformation remains a mystery, but worthy of investigation.” Bullcrap! The ‘dossier’ was made up from whole cloth BY Steel from unsubstantiated COMMENTS made by SUBSCRIBERS to CNN BLOG FORUMS.
Hardly a ‘mystery’, and OLD news.
Two years plus and Hillary still walks free-the President is not going to have ANYBODY investigated.
Hitlery has already let it be known that if SHE goes down, HALF of WASHINGTON is going with her. THAT’S what everybody in the government is afraid of.
You are so right Gwyllm. Most are a crooked as Hitlery.
It doesn’t matter if the Russians came up with this information or not, what matters to me is that clinton and the DNC paid for the report, then obama’s Socialist Regime got warrants to investigate and spy on the Trump Campaign using this unsubstantiated report. This isn’t collusion this is an out right fraud initiated by obama’s minions for the sole purpose of destroying Donald Trump’s Presidency. Everyone who was even remotely connected to this document, the securing of the warrant and the subsequent investigation should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and When convicted be made to pay back all of the money that was spend on the investigation to Muller and his team of Democrats.
You said it all.
You have it completely correct, Tony – my feelings exactly. I would only add that every single person who perpetuated and kept this lie going, ie., Pelosi, Schumer, Shifty Shift, tons of other Democratic Senators and Congressmen (and some Republicans), CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, et al, be investigated too for their role in this hoax. Every single last one of them should go down for the coo they tried to pull off regarding our duly elected existing President and administration. These treasonous people tried to overthrow an entire government. Unbelievable and every last one should pay so this NEVER happens again!
Well said!
It is a great public service that The
Daily Staff has chosen to go public
with its comments, voters are so
poorly served by the liberal media!
If you remember Obama changed the law right when he left office
WASHINGTON — In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.
The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.
The change means that far more officials will be searching through raw data
This is who is really behind this
You know I voted in our last election for a local Democrat and now I get E- Mails from some of these Democrat idiots thinking I am a DEMOCRAT.
All this Russia, Russia BS. Pumped out by Very Fake Jewish Owned Media to get our attention away fro who our real enemies are by telling you 1000’s of times that Russia is our enemy, So by now you probably believe that to be true, But the Russians didn’t Sink the passenger liner Lusitania and killed all aboard including 186.Americans, the Jews did, to restart the WW.I. Russia didn’t sink the US.Liberty, Israel did, to get us in a war with Egypt, Russia didn’t take down the WTC. on 9/11, Israel and the Jews did, Put the Blames on the Saudis, but attacked Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, The Jews are the Deep State, So who do you think is our enemies.? They have started all Wars since Napoleon Bonaparte, Not the Russians. And all the dead people from 9/11, and all the Jew created wars are only Collateral Damage. the Trillions the Jews are making on wars are more important than Lives.
Hey you Nazi moron!! ! You have picked the wrong enemy. It is the illegal immigrants who are bankrupting the country and the Muslims who kill people with planes & trucks & bombs. The Jews are happy eating bagels and inventing Medicines to cure diseases !
Well said!
You are even dumber than a democrat, that means you need watching 24/7.
They don’t come any dumber or uninformed as you. You are either a leftwing troll or big L Libertarian.
Let’s not forget that Steele admitted he never WENT to russia to confirm those accusations
He didn’t need to…he was PAID by the DNC and Hitlery’s campaign to MAKE UP the ‘dossier’ HIMSELF.
I don’t believe anything you said in your comment. You obviously have a problem with Israel. Let’s really put the blame on the one who bought the Steele dossier
It wasn’t the Jews that destroyed that ship,it was the Germans in one of their submarines. It was torpedoed by them,it was the Germans that were also killing the Jews.
Clinton and the DNC paid for the dossier with campaign funds by washing the payments through their complicit attorney and calling them legal expenses. The FEC should have investigated long ago, fined the campaign and the attorney should have lost his license. Those actions didn’t require waiting for Mueller to finish his investigation.
Steele was not duped. It seems apparent from the timeline, flaws, payment source and distribution methods that Steele simply created the whole thing. This was not Russian collusion, this was American treason.
It has ALWAYS been clear to all but the blind that the
Russians would NOT WANT TRUMP!!!!!!!!!
The Demondcraps always undermind the military and invite the destruction of America by FLOODING our country with ILLEGAL people. All the Demondcraps want is power and to hell with our GREAT REPUBLIC.
TRUMP 2020!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agree. President Trump must go on with his policy. The most honest President ever
I’m more convinced than ever that there is just no way the Russians colluded, or even worked alone, to help Trump. Whatever the Russians did in the 2016 election, I think their main goal was just to seed discord in our electoral process. That said, I remain convinced that if the Russians wanted anyone to win, they wanted Hillary, no matter the personal discord between Putin and Hillary. Given her general corruption and incompetence — start the discussion with that silly ‘reset’ button and the Uranium One deal — Putin _knew_ she could be rolled. Trump, not so sure. Moreover, it is clear that all the Russian overtures to “provide dirt on Hillary” were not to help Trump at all . . . their strategy was to get Trump out of the way in favor of Hillary. That’s why all the meetings to “provide dirt on Hillary” didn’t have any dirt at all.