Posted on 04/26/2017 4:17:03 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the infamous anti-Donald Trump dossier, acknowledges that a sensational charge his sources made about a tech company CEO and Democratic Party hacking is unverified.
In a court filing, Mr. Steele also says his accusations against the president and his aides about a supposed Russian hacking conspiracy were never supposed to be made public, much less posted in full on a website for the world to see on Jan. 10.
He defends himself by saying he was betrayed by his client and that he followed proper internal channels by giving the dossier to Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, to alert the U.S. government.
Mr. Steele has not spoken publicly about his disputed opposition research project, but for the first time he is being forced to talk in a London court through his attorneys.
Barristers for Mr. Steele and his Orbis Business Intelligence firm filed their first defense against a defamation lawsuit brought by Aleksej Gubarev, chief executive of the network solutions firm XBT Holdings.
Mr. Steele’s court filing portrays him as a victim of Fusion GPS — the Washington firm that hired him with money from a Hillary Clinton backer.
Fusion specializes in opposition research for Democrats and circulated the Steele dossier among reporters in an effort to injure the Trump candidacy and presidency. Mr. Steele said he never authorized Fusion to do that. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
FROM THE TELEGRAPH JAN. 12, 2017:
Steele was initially hired by FusionGPS, a Washington, DC-based political research firm, to investigate Trump on behalf of unidentified Republicans who wanted to stop Trump’s bid for the GOP nomination. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that Steele was initially hired by Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s 16 opponents in the 2016 Republican primary. It was not immediately possible to verify the BBC’s report.
He was kept on assignment by FusionGPS after Trump won the nomination and his information was circulated to Democratic Party figures and members of the media. . .
JEB BUSH!
Suppose the anti trump gop that first hired steele & the “hillary backers” that paid steele are one in the same??
Steele’s defense is even more fictional than his dossier. When the thing first came out, it was widely reported story that Steele himself — not GPS Fusion — had shopped the dossier all over the news media, as part of doing his job. If the Plaintiff can present witnesses and affidavits attesting to this, Steele is sunk.
That Steele never intended for the whole document to be published might be true. Dirty deeds fare best in the darkness — sunlight reveals what they are. His scheme likely was to show it to insiders only, then leak salacious parts of it to anti-Trump media as directed by the Hillary campaign. The base document would be kept secret so that it couldn’t be tested for accuracy, or create libel charges.
You said it. The hostile McCain really needs to be investigated.
I believe that the junk from 4Chan to Wilson, got shipped across the pond, and Steele massaged the fake junk to sound official... The whole, stinking, rotting establishment of both parties were alll involved.
Questions: What role did the MacMuffin of Romney religion, former CIA operative play in feeding junk to Steele? I have read that Rick Wilson took what he believed to be ‘real’ bad stuff on Trump from 4Chan and fed it to every media outlet in this nation.... This is where the NeverTrumpers were birthed, because they allllllllll, Levin, Rush Limbo, and National Review ‘believed’ that Trump would be ‘exposed’.
Oh, remember that Marco Polo thought it ‘genius’ to mock the size of Trumps hands??? The whole political establishment, LEFT, CENTER and self claimed ‘RIGHT’, were in on this derail Trump agenda... because they all ‘believe’ in the ‘golden showers’ hoax.. Bunch of stupid people we have in positions of power.
On this ‘site’ there were some who were in full accusation mode against Trump, over his hiring of Manford (sp?) because that meant that Trump was a Putin pawn... The GOPe are the first culprits in attempting to get Hillry elected president.
The only proper channel McCain has, is the one broke back Lindsey has drilled!
“When the news media wouldn’t touch the “dossier” Steele passed it to Comey through John McCain.”
And what candidate was the closest to McCain and had the avenues to have passed it on to him, that’s right. Lindsey Graham.
I was wondering why Lindsey all of a sudden seemed to break from the McCain mean machine and is now speaking glowingly of Trump’s agenda. Sorry Lindsey, Trump won’t let you anywhere near to his butt.
When the full ferocity of the Trump hammer comes down, it will get real messy for the GOPe.
Fairly credible reports long ago revealed that the GPS Fusion’s original client for Trump-oppo were Bush Republicans (and they didn’t deny it). GPS paid Steele to concoct the dossier. When Bush dropped out, GPS Fusion needed a new sugar daddy for this project, and the Hillary Dems were eager beavers. Every appearance to me is that Steele was paid to leak elements of the dossier (as an unnamed former intelligence officer) to selected media. Less clear is who paid him to do so, and if some of it was freelancing by Steele for cash. Whatever happened, Steele did a heckuva job at getting his faked dirt into the public realm. He has destroyed himself while Trump ended up President. Ain’t irony fun?
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