find just one major FakeNewsMSM outlet reporting any of these explosive revelations. meanwhile, the crack-down on alternative, pro-Trump websites continues apace.
9 Aug: Fox News: DOJ official Bruce Ohr communicated with Trump dossier author Steele after FBI cut ties: report
By Brooke Singman
The emails, first reported by The Hill, reveal Steele even continued to send information to Ohr after the election...
Yet the emails show Ohr, a former associate deputy attorney general, and Steele communicated extensively from 2002 all the way into 2017...
The FBI declined to comment when asked by Fox News whether the bureau relied on Steele’s intelligence after their working relationship was terminated...
Steele authored and compiled information for the controversial and unverified anti-Trump dossier on behalf of Fusion GPS, which was hired to conduct opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign through law firm Perkins Coie...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/09/doj-official-bruce-ohr-communicated-with-trump-dossier-author-steele-after-fbi-cut-ties-report.html
book-length attempt by Mayer to create the definitive narrative. it fails on so many levels, but some very interesting bits nonetheless:
12 Mar 2018: New Yorker: Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
By Jane Mayer
And so Steele, on that January night, was stunned to learn that U.S. politicians were calling him a criminal...
(In addition to the criminal referral in the U.S., a Russian businessman, Aleksej Gubarev, had filed a libel lawsuit against Steele, saying that the dossier had falsely accused his company of helping the Russian government hack into the Democratic Party’s internal e-mail system.) Would Steele end up in a U.S. federal penitentiary?...
A longtime friend of Steele’s pointed out to me that Steele was in a singularly unenviable predicament. The dossier had infuriated both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump by divulging allegedly corrupt dealings between them. “You’ve got oligarchs running both superpowers,” the friend said. “And, incredibly, they both hate this same guy (TRUMP).”...
***Legal experts soon assured Steele that the criminal referral was merely a political stunt...
Indeed, on January 18th, the staff of Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, produced a report purporting to show that the real conspiracy revolved around Hillary Clinton. “The truth,” Nunes said, is that Clinton “colluded with the Russians to get dirt on Trump, to feed it to the F.B.I. to open up an investigation into the other campaign.” Glenn Kessler, who writes the nonpartisan Fact Checker blog at the Washington Post, awarded Nunes’s statement four Pinocchios—his rating for an outright lie. “There is no evidence that Clinton was involved in Steele’s reports or worked with Russian entities to feed information to Steele,” Kessler wrote...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier
Great info. Thanks.