Posted on 12/19/2018 10:03:12 PM PST by bitt
A federal judge on Wednesday revealed just how widely Christopher Steele distributed his infamous anti-Trump dossier.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Paul Ryan chief of staff Jonathan Burks received Steele’s reports in December 2016, before BuzzFeed would publish the dossier in full.
Court documents say that Steele gave the dossier materials to Kinzinger and Burks, though Paul Ryan’s office claims that Burks has never met Steele and did not receive documents directly from the former British spy.
A Republican lawmaker and the chief of staff to House Speaker Paul Ryan were early recipients of the infamous Steele dossier, according to a court memo released Wednesday as part of BuzzFeed’s dossier-related lawsuit.
The judge handling the case filed a document that stated that Christopher Steele, the dossier author, provided at least one memo from the dossier to Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Jonathan Burks, a longtime Ryan aide.
“Steele gave Report 166 to Kramer, an unnamed senior British security official, Ms. Wallender [sic] at the NSC, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), and House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Chief of Staff, John Burks,” wrote Judge Ursula Ungaro, who ruled in favor of BuzzFeed in a defamation lawsuit filed by a Russian businessmen identified in Report 166, which Steele produced on Dec. 13, 2016.
That report, which is one of 17 written by Steele, accused Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev of using his companies to hack Democrats’ computer systems during the 2016 campaign. Gubarev vehemently denied the allegations and sued BuzzFeed for defamation, claiming that the website failed to investigate Steele’s claims.
Ungaro noted in her filing Wednesday that BuzzFeed did not reach out to Gubarev prior to its publication of the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017. The website apologized to Gubarev and redacted his name from its report after the Russian sued.
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Since Steele was ‘selling’ all of his ‘products’....what did these GOP guys pay for their copy? And where did the money come from to pay for the copy?
Did they have a need to know?
Knock it off with the all caps headlines OK?
I suspect Ryan is very deeply involved in the spying on President Trump and that is why he is “retiring”. I think a lot of the other 40+ that didn’t stand for reelection were also the same boat and know that their perfidy is going to be exposed.
YEAH, STOP POSTING IN CAPS. ELSE THE CAPS POLICE WILL GET UPSET AND HAVE A HISSY FIT.
I bet the likes of Ryan and McCain thought the Dossier was gospel truth. They were hoping that it would take Trump down. Their minds had all kinds of lurid fantasies of Trump’s sexcapades. Trump would be JFK, Slick Willy and Zer0 all rolled into one. Washington DC’s red light underbelly would be no match for Trump, they thought. Experience told them so. The White House would become the Playboy Mansion with ropes that swung into the Lincoln Bed. They were hoping that Trump would have swung from the chandelier, slipped, and hit his head—never to recover.
At least the Dossier would put an early end to The Donald.
I can imagine their glee when they got their edition of the Dossier—as Republican insurgents.
There is something up with Ryan, that is for sure. One day maybe we will find out.
There’s no such thing as a Steele dossier. That was a phony document. Either Ryan was used as a stooge or he was in on it.
Two top Russia aides on the National Security Council, Michael Daniel and Celeste Wallander, believed the U.S. needed to strike back forcefully, according to the new book ‘Russian Roulette,’ by Michael Isikoff and David Corn.
-—dailymail.co.uk ...
WHY?! THIS IS IMPORTANT STUFF!!!!
/sarc
I told you guys it was obvious there was GOP involved and that is why nothing was happening.
I agree, but I thonk there are three overlapping reasons:
1. Complicity in coup/sedition.
2. Imvolvement in Shush Fund.
3. Desire to hand House to Democrats.
Caps huh?
Caps?
That’s what it takes to set you off?
Ok then.
That McCain was a demented sicko is obvious (part credit due to NViets) but Paul Ryan is too. Good post,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
CAPS.....just another bit of PC cr**. Who the hell ever dreamed up that it was yelling??
Remember Rino Ryan was 2nd man out in line of siccession, so no surprise that he would get a thrill from the dossier.
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