Posted on 08/25/2017 6:07:02 AM PDT by McGruff
The former British spy who put together an unverified dossier of explosive allegations about President Trump during last year’s campaign has been ordered to give a deposition in a multi-million-dollar libel case brought against a media outlet that published the document.
Former MI-6 British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele is fighting the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro, of the Southern District of Florida that he must answer questions in the suit against Buzzfeed. A lawyer directly involved in the case said the issue will likely be argued before the British courts where a similar libel case is being heard.
Steele's London-based company, Orbis Business Intelligence, authored the 35-page dossier while working for American-based Fusion GPS and its founder Glenn Simpson. The document, which was crafted as opposition research for unknown political rivals of Trump, contained salacious charges involving Trump and Russian prostitutes, but none of the claims have been corroborated and most media outlets steered clear of the dossier.
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Hmmm......
Let's see the situation is evolving:
Clearly, the entire orchestra of alphabet agencies have dirty hands, IMHO.
I recall that FreeRepublic posts said that 4Chan people created the accusations and got them to the Republican “strategist” Rick Wilson. Rick Wilson is as big an idiot as I have ever seen and he seems to be carrying a big grudge over Trump’s win. Is there anything to the 4Chan/Wilson connection?
The wheels of justice need some WD40...
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