NEWSWATCH: “Did The FBI Vouch For The Crazy Russian Deal From The Steele Dossier?” – Forbes/Paul Roderick Gregory

February 1, 2018 JRL Russia List JRL NewsBlog, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Spies, Spy Allegations, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

“The media’s promotion of an unverified dossier against … Trump[] failed to cement Hillary Clinton’s expected victory …. If that were the whole story, the dossier would have faded from public view … Trump would not have spent his first year fighting off charges of treason, and a much bigger story would not be getting ready to break. What we did not know on election day was that the … Steele dossier was bought and paid for by the Clinton Campaign and the DNC, that the dossier itself may have been part and parcel of a Kremlin disinformation campaign, and that a FISA … court apparently used one of its most bizarre claims to approve the surveillance of a Trump campaign advisor. … the Steele dossier was commissioned by an opposition-research firm – Fusion GPS – that had Russia among its main clients. In light of these disclosures, investigators must now determine if the leaders of the Democratic Party, not Trump, colluded with the Kremlin to produce what the Russians call ‘black PR’ against Trump. …”