Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier

quote [ How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia. ]

This is a remarkable, extensive story on Steele and the timeline of the Russia investigation, which at this point is such a huge sprawling fustercluck it's hard to keep track of all the who's, what's, and when's. It's lengthy but well worth the read, the kind of long-form journalism that's rare these days but that The New Yorker and Jane Mayer excel at.

I still haven't found the part where she explains how Steele ended up in Florida or why he's dicking around with a low-bandwidth porn-sharing website, but I'm sure it looks bad.

One wholly new revelation: Steele wrote a memo to the FBI citing a well-placed Russian source who believes that Putin vetoed Romney as Secretary of State.
[SFW] [politics] [+2 Good]
[by hellboy@1:39amGMT]

Comments

Hugh E. said @ 2:22am GMT on 7th Mar [Score:2 Good]
Journalist Jane Mayer on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
hellboy said @ 5:10am GMT on 7th Mar [Score:2]
Another pawn taken.

The eventual movie about the Mueller investigation is going to be gangbusters. Well, it'll have to be at least a miniseries by now.
steele said @ 2:30am GMT on 7th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
I'm hiding from Putin. Shhh!
Hugh E. said @ 3:10am GMT on 7th Mar
"We need to put a tariff on that guy. And I don't know who this Alluh whatever guy is, but he sounds Muslim, put a tariff on him, too."
- Donald J Trump

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