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The Steele Dossier and the perils of political insurance policies
The Hill ^ | 12/22/2018 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 12/25/2018 6:54:22 PM PST by bitt

The wonderful thing about insurance is that you can cover just about anything, so long as you are prepared to pay the premium.

Model Heidi Klum insured her legs for $2.2 million, twice the amount of the insurance on fabled actress Betty Grable’s limbs. Lloyd’s of London once insured a 12-foot cigar. KISS bassist Gene Simmons’ tongue ($1 million), Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu’s hair ($1 million), Bruce Springsteen’s vocal cords ($6 million), even Rolling Stone Keith Richards’ middle finger ($1.6 million) — all insured.

But what about an election?

According to former British spy Christopher Steele, that was precisely the concern of the Clinton campaign when it paid him and research firm Fusion GPS to compile his controversial dossier on Donald Trump. Despite being widely declared the shoo-in for the White House, the Clinton campaign wanted insurance — and Steele and Fusion were there, as one insurer famously says, “like a good neighbor.”

Steele was recently called for a deposition in London in a defamation action filed by three Russian bankers for allegedly false claims in the dossier. Steele’s statements included some surprising admissions, particularly regarding the purpose of his contract with the U.S. law firm of Perkins Coie.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: christophersteele; clinton; coup; deepstate; election; fisa; fusiongps; hillary; jonathanturley; lockherup; mi6; perkinscoie; silentcoup; spygate; steeledossier; thehill; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 12/25/2018 6:54:22 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/25/2018 6:54:36 PM PST by bitt
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This story is finally getting out through non-conservative news outlets. Many ignorant liberals will poop in their clothes when they see who they have been supporting. The government liberals have been behind this all along and are just trying to bury it. But, when The Hill reports it, the cover is blown.


3 posted on 12/25/2018 7:03:40 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Bump


4 posted on 12/25/2018 7:16:37 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: bitt

Bookmark.


5 posted on 12/25/2018 7:17:38 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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BKMK


6 posted on 12/25/2018 7:18:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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APP-011818-Trump-Dossier
7 posted on 12/25/2018 7:20:23 PM PST by timestax
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fisagate

8 posted on 12/25/2018 7:21:50 PM PST by timestax
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To: bitt

Jonathan Turley is a homophobic, racist, nationalistic, Alt-Right member of the Vast Right Wing conspiracy!
What...? uh..? what? No shiz? Really? Never mind...
(Sound of crickets chirping...)


9 posted on 12/25/2018 7:48:58 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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Shaaddy-Bunnch
10 posted on 12/25/2018 8:01:28 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax

The pic is worth a thousand words...they ALL should be in cells just like the pic. Never to be free again....ever.


11 posted on 12/25/2018 8:07:57 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Personally when I first heard about that so called dossier to me it sounded like a satirical piece that was meant to go to some UK publisher but was picked up by the Clinton’s. While it’s been presented as fact. I can’t imagine Trump who values money and its use would even consider doing something like this. He’d consider such activity a waste of money.


12 posted on 12/26/2018 2:32:20 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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Consider that if in the off chance this whole sordid affair leads to forcing Trump out of office by one means or another and the liberals succeed in nullifying the 2016 election, will the American public just stand idly by and allow our Republic to perish? I believe this will spark a revolution as violent as the French Revolution. We may yet see gallows on the Washington Mall


13 posted on 12/26/2018 11:22:10 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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