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Former Senior FBI Official Is Leading BuzzFeed’s Effort to Verify Trump Dossier
foreignpolicy.com ^ | February 12, 2018, 2:33 PM | By Jana Winter

Posted on 02/12/2018 2:25:35 PM PST by Red Badger

Anthony Ferrante coordinated the U.S. government’s response to Russian election interference. Now he’s helping a news site defend itself from a Russian billionaire’s lawsuit.

For the last six months, a team led by a former top FBI and White House cybersecurity official has been traveling the globe on a secret mission to verify parts of the Trump dossier, according to four sources familiar with different aspects of the ongoing probe.

Their client: BuzzFeed, the news organization that first published the dossier on U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, which is now being sued over its explosive allegations.

The investigation, being conducted by FTI Consulting, is running in parallel to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in Kremlin-directed efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. With the special counsel probe under wraps, the BuzzFeed court case could represent the first public airing of an investigation into the veracity of some of the dossier’s claims.

FTI is a Washington-based business advisory firm that specializes in areas ranging from corporate litigation to forensic accounting, and it is a frequent post-government landing pad for FBI officials.

The ramifications of FTI’s dossier investigation could be game-changing for Mueller’s probe, because it “would establish outside veracity of dossier allegations,” a source familiar with the work told Foreign Policy. Yet news of FTI’s involvement, including the critical role of a former top FBI official, would also be controversial because the dossier itself is “a political football,” the source said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: 201802; anthonyferrante; buzzfeed; buzzfeedlawsuit; buzzfeedsued; california; christophersteele; devinnunes; fbiagent; ferrante; fisa; fti; fticonsulting; orbis; rodrosenstein; soros; trumpdossier
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1 posted on 02/12/2018 2:25:35 PM PST by Red Badger
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If the Trump Despising FBI could not verify the trash, and believe me they had reason to do it, what makes him think he can?


2 posted on 02/12/2018 2:27:21 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Red Badger

former


3 posted on 02/12/2018 2:28:24 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Red Badger

I’m Donald Trump.

I’m going to Russia.

At the top of my list is hiring girls to pee on an empty bed.

Fk Off!


4 posted on 02/12/2018 2:29:58 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Titus-Maximus

“If the Trump Despising FBI could not verify the trash, and believe me they had reason to do it, what makes him think he can?”

It does not matter that he can or can’t.
Only that the media has the narrative that he COULD...


5 posted on 02/12/2018 2:31:03 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Titus-Maximus

I think he’s just enjoying traveling the world on the sucker’s dime. Livin’ the dream!..................


6 posted on 02/12/2018 2:31:07 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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BuzzFeed need to up their daily Hopium dosage.


7 posted on 02/12/2018 2:31:16 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Eddie01

There may be a lot more of those soon..................


8 posted on 02/12/2018 2:31:32 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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Breaking Buzzfeed would improve the Internet by at least 50%.


9 posted on 02/12/2018 2:31:34 PM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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Repeat the Big Lie often enough.....


10 posted on 02/12/2018 2:32:52 PM PST by griswold3 (Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.)
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I hope that Russian guy does to them what that Wrestler guy did to that other website....................


11 posted on 02/12/2018 2:33:00 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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Hog wash. Six months and nothing


12 posted on 02/12/2018 2:33:51 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Titus-Maximus
If the Trump Despising FBI could not verify the trash, and believe me they had reason to do it, what makes him think he can?
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Stupid. You can't back verify something that, at the time it was presented to the court, was unverified trash. Fraud on the court has been committed and is complete. End of story.
13 posted on 02/12/2018 2:38:28 PM PST by iontheball (lLL)
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The ramifications of FTI’s dossier investigation could be game-changing for Mueller’s probe, because it “would establish outside veracity of dossier allegations,” a source familiar with the work told Foreign Policy.

So the author tacitly admits that FBI officials submitted an UNVERIFIED document to a FISA court in order to obtain a FISA warrant and enable the government to spy on private citizens. THAT should be the game changer!!

14 posted on 02/12/2018 2:39:29 PM PST by the_Watchman
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Washington Post publication.


15 posted on 02/12/2018 2:39:45 PM PST by Luke21
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So, it’s Billionaire Vs Billionaire?................


16 posted on 02/12/2018 2:40:35 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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Sure sounds like an “overt act” in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy to commit sedition.


17 posted on 02/12/2018 2:41:30 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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The fact that they’re still having to seek proof is proof of the dossier’s lack of validity before the FISA court.


18 posted on 02/12/2018 2:42:23 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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All media everywhere is a circus 24/7, 365 when it used to be that a “media circus” would just pop up once in a while here and there. WTF?


19 posted on 02/12/2018 2:42:52 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: jacknhoo

If it were true, they could have located the prostitutes and paraded them in front of the world’s press by now..................


20 posted on 02/12/2018 2:43:44 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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