Its convenient to believe Steele, that the dossier is based on Russian sources. Because that means Hillary was colluding with Russia to throw the election.
But being as it is a fake document, it required no input from anyone at all.
My question is, did Steele even write it, or was he merely paid a fee to sign it and lend his name to it?
For all we know, it was written by Fusion. They received (apparently) $9 million for writing it, paid supposedly a hundred grand to Steele... which for a couple hours of work is a pretty good lick.
So where did the rest of the money go? Fusion is taking in millions from DNC and the Russians (they were also on contract to the Russians)... This smells like money laundering.
It also smells like espionage. In the modern age, espionage is done in a hyper-legal way, with all IRS forms filed, check-boxes checked, i’s dotted and t’s crossed. Its all right out in the open.
Round them all up. We’re gonna need more prisons!
Someone committed a crime.
Use the Michael Flynn, Scooter Libby, or Martha Stewart approach....find a simple lie to a Federal LEO and the bust the doors down at 3:00am.
The blow back heat from this bomb is continuing to reflect on Mr. Steele. May it scorch the ComDem conduit from which it was transferred, including McCain.
We now know that the Russian lawyer who tried to set up Trump Jr was Fusion. And we know that FBI was using Fusion to generate the evidence they needed to justify an otherwise illegal surveillance... So is Fusion DNC, or Russian FSB, or US Deep State, or simply the point where these interests converge, and the means of getting everyone involved legally paid?
What we have is an illegal surveillance of Obama’s political opposition. This is normal for Obama; historically he always has the goods on his opposition. It is also normal for the Clintons, they spent enormous amounts of money and energy investigating people. They always had the goods on people who might be potential trouble.
FBI has 35000 agents who can do investigations; why would they have to use an outside contractor to do the dirty work? Because what they were doing was patently dishonest and they knew it. They couldn’t trust their own agents to do it. So they used outside contractors.
Without Fusion’s fake content this is an illegal operation, which means everyone involved faces career-ending legal jeopardy. Mueller has to find something. He has to “Scooter-Libby” someone, or people close to him go to jail.
Sometimes the myriad scandals overwhelm you.
They were running guns to the Mexican cartel. They were running guns to the Hondurans during their effort to overthrow that government.
They allowed Hezbollah to run drugs into the country, and money out. In effect, Obama was funding Hezbollah.
They set up a fake treaty and fake inspections to cover for sheltering, defending, and funding Iran’s nuke.
They overthrew several governments and replaced them with Muslim Brotherhood. They started a war in Syria that killed half a million people, and used some of the most horrible people on earth to do the dirty work.
They effectively switched sides in the war on terror.
Then there is the dirty land deals with China (involving the Bundys), the whole Uranium One episode, the effort to bring in “carbon credit trading” which is money laundering on a stratospheric scale.
Apparently, the FBI and Mueller must all think the dossier is factual because non of them have outright discredited it even though it has been. You would think Mueller would investigate the dossier first and validate it before going on a wild goose chase.
I really don't think anyone can blackmail Trump. He's like honey badger, and honey badger don't care.