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[vegster]

https://www.nationalreview.com/news...ues-dnc-over-commissioning-of-steele-dossier/

Former Trump Aide Carter Page Sues DNC over Commissioning of Steele Dossier

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page is suing the Democratic National Committee over its commissioning of the infamous and largely discredited Steele dossier, which the FBI used to obtain warrants to surveil him during the 2016 election cycle.

Page filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Illinois against the DNC as well as the law firm Perkins Coie and its partners, who contracted opposition research firm Fusion GPS to compile the the dossier on the DNC’s behalf. The suit accuses the defendants of pursuing a “political agenda” by using “false information, misrepresentations and other misconduct to direct the power of the international intelligence apparatus and the media industry against” Page.

“This is a first step to ensure that the full extent of the FISA abuse that has occurred during the last few years is exposed and remedied,” Page’s attorney John Pierce said Thursday. “Defendants and those they worked with inside the federal government did not and will not succeed in making America a surveillance state.”

The dossier, which contained allegations that then-candidate Donald Trump conspired with Russia as well along side salacious details about his personal life, was a “central and essential” piece of the FBI’s application to procure multiple warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court to surveil Page.

The largely uncorroborated report was compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who was investigating Trump for an opposition research firm hired by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, with law firm Perkins Coie as a funding middle man.

“This is only the first salvo. We will follow the evidence wherever it leads, no matter how high,” Pierce added. “The rule of law will prevail.”


Last month, the Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that the FBI omitted crucial details in its requests for warrants to surveil Page and neglected to inform the FISA Court that the dossier was unreliable.

The FBI found Steele’s information about a Russian government connection to be dubious but declined to mention as much in the later applications to the FISA court for warrants to surveil Page.

Good idea, lets have this Steele Report out in open court and expand on the issues it throws up. Only one loser in all this once things are exposed to scrutiny.

 

[carlzeiss]

Good idea, lets have this Steele Report out in open court and expand on the issues it throws up. Only one loser in all this once things are exposed to scrutiny.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-anti-trump-dossier-was-completely-fabricated

Top British spy report: 'Strong possibility' that anti-Trump dossier was completely fabricated


A British author who specializes in espionage raised serious doubts about former MI6 officer Christopher Steele's salacious dossier, which was included in the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Rupert Allason, a former member of Parliament whose pen name is Nigel West, conducted a forensic analysis of Steele's work, which made stunning allegations about coordination between Trump's camp and Russia. He came away "stunned" by what he viewed to be a poor job by a former intelligence officer whom he once considered to be a friend.

“There is ... a strong possibility that all Steele’s material has been fabricated," Allason wrote in a report obtained by the British newspaper Sunday Times.

Allason, 68, was commissioned by a Republican law firm after the dossier, a series of reports that included details of an alleged video obtained by the Russians of Trump with prostitutes urinating on a bed in a Moscow hotel room, was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.

Allason's report comes in the wake of an assessment by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who condemned Steele, 55, and the FBI for its reliance on his dossier to obtain warrants for wiretapping onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Additionally, special counsel Robert Mueller concluded an investigation last year that found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The FBI has been heavily criticized by Trump and his Republican allies for not making clear to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that Steele's work, commissioned by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, was funded by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm.

Allason determined that because Steele had Democratic benefactors, he had "a strong financial incentive to perpetuate the reporting" of Trump's links to Russia.

Horowitz's report, which was released in December and faulted the Justice Department and the FBI for 17 “significant errors and omissions” in its submissions to the FISA court, showed that FBI interviews with Steele's primary Moscow-based source, beginning in January 2017, "raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting." This source claimed that much of what he told Steele was "hearsay" or, in the case of the "pee tape," just "rumor and speculation" from a sub-source, reported by some to likely be Belarus-born businessman Sergei Millian. Millian, however, has denied being a source for the dossier

Allason also took issue with Steele's sourcing, writing that from "a professional intelligence perspective, the dossier as a whole is profoundly troubling and cannot be taken at face value."

“Source E is credited with access to Ritz-Carlton staff, knowledge of Russian government involvement with WikiLeaks and the abuse of Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States. This appears to be an extraordinarily wide area of expertise," Allason wrote, adding, "The apparent lapses bear the hallmarks of invention."

In a statement, Steele's Orbis Business Intelligence accused Allason of writing a "politically motivated" report as his research was funded by a Republican law firm and asserted that Allason's findings were not "based on any knowledge" of its sources and methods.

West's work, the firm said, "lacks authority" because he "was never an intelligence officer and has no experience of operational work in the field." Orbis also claimed "much of the dossier has been proven” since 2017 and declared: “We stand by the integrity and quality of our work.”

 

[vegster]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-anti-trump-dossier-was-completely-fabricated

Top British spy report: 'Strong possibility' that anti-Trump dossier was completely fabricated


A British author who specializes in espionage raised serious doubts about former MI6 officer Christopher Steele's salacious dossier, which was included in the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Rupert Allason, a former member of Parliament whose pen name is Nigel West, conducted a forensic analysis of Steele's work, which made stunning allegations about coordination between Trump's camp and Russia. He came away "stunned" by what he viewed to be a poor job by a former intelligence officer whom he once considered to be a friend.

“There is ... a strong possibility that all Steele’s material has been fabricated," Allason wrote in a report obtained by the British newspaper Sunday Times.

Allason, 68, was commissioned by a Republican law firm after the dossier, a series of reports that included details of an alleged video obtained by the Russians of Trump with prostitutes urinating on a bed in a Moscow hotel room, was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.

Allason's report comes in the wake of an assessment by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who condemned Steele, 55, and the FBI for its reliance on his dossier to obtain warrants for wiretapping onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Additionally, special counsel Robert Mueller concluded an investigation last year that found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The FBI has been heavily criticized by Trump and his Republican allies for not making clear to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that Steele's work, commissioned by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, was funded by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm.

Allason determined that because Steele had Democratic benefactors, he had "a strong financial incentive to perpetuate the reporting" of Trump's links to Russia.

Horowitz's report, which was released in December and faulted the Justice Department and the FBI for 17 “significant errors and omissions” in its submissions to the FISA court, showed that FBI interviews with Steele's primary Moscow-based source, beginning in January 2017, "raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting." This source claimed that much of what he told Steele was "hearsay" or, in the case of the "pee tape," just "rumor and speculation" from a sub-source, reported by some to likely be Belarus-born businessman Sergei Millian. Millian, however, has denied being a source for the dossier

Allason also took issue with Steele's sourcing, writing that from "a professional intelligence perspective, the dossier as a whole is profoundly troubling and cannot be taken at face value."

“Source E is credited with access to Ritz-Carlton staff, knowledge of Russian government involvement with WikiLeaks and the abuse of Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States. This appears to be an extraordinarily wide area of expertise," Allason wrote, adding, "The apparent lapses bear the hallmarks of invention."

In a statement, Steele's Orbis Business Intelligence accused Allason of writing a "politically motivated" report as his research was funded by a Republican law firm and asserted that Allason's findings were not "based on any knowledge" of its sources and methods.

West's work, the firm said, "lacks authority" because he "was never an intelligence officer and has no experience of operational work in the field." Orbis also claimed "much of the dossier has been proven” since 2017 and declared: “We stand by the integrity and quality of our work.”

The ex Tory MP Rupert Allason ? Writer of spy fiction ? criticising Christopher Steele ex MI6 officer ? Difficult to know who to believe ?

And I'll just leave this sentence with you "Allason, 68, was commissioned by a Republican law firm after the dossier...."

 

[lasvegan]

The ex Tory MP Rupert Allason ? Writer of spy fiction ? criticising Christopher Steele ex MI6 officer ? Difficult to know who to believe ?

And I'll just leave this sentence with you "Allason, 68, was commissioned by a Republican law firm after the dossier...."

Go on then, finish the sentence and I’ll leave it with you.

 

[vegster]

Go on then, finish the sentence and I’ll leave it with you.

You get what you pay for remember and he has literally been " Bought in " to try to do a hatchet job on another report doing a hatchet job on Trump. Both seem to have little merit with the passage of time and having been superseded by Trump's own lies and deeds while IN office.

It seems Trump will wriggle out of impeachment despite republican senators openly admitting that he has committed an impeachable act but its not bad enough to be impeached for. FFS !

 

[Curious Orange]

In years to come I suspect Trump's time in office will be dramatised as a farce... except that could never be truly as tragically amusing as what is currently going on - the lies, the deceit, the obfuscation... and very rarely, the truth.

 

[lasvegan]

You get what you pay for remember and he has literally been " Bought in " to try to do a hatchet job on another report doing a hatchet job on Trump. Both seem to have little merit with the passage of time and having been superseded by Trump's own lies and deeds while IN office.

It seems Trump will wriggle out of impeachment despite republican senators openly admitting that he has committed an impeachable act but its not bad enough to be impeached for. FFS !

It appears that you have been afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, a disease that addles the brain into making nonsensical statements, further leading to total mental incapacitation.

The Democrat Party is riddled with it.

 

[vegster]

[/B]

It appears that you have been afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, a disease that addles the brain into making nonsensical statements, further leading to total mental incapacitation.

The Democrat Party is riddled with it.

Shit ! I hope not ! Maybe it's early stages for me ? I haven't claimed to have invented the wheel or praised how our parliamentarian troops seized Heathrow Airport during the Civil war....yet.

 

[peterward]

What a buffoon this pr1ck is.
Trying to milk the Superbowl with a look-at-me tweet, but congratulating the wrong state.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/02/trump-kansas-city-missouri-super-bowl-tweet

 

[Mellotron]

What a buffoon this pr1ck is.
Trying to milk the Superbowl with a look-at-me tweet, but congratulating the wrong state.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/02/trump-kansas-city-missouri-super-bowl-tweet

He's so ****ing thick it hurts.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

You get what you pay for remember and he has literally been " Bought in " to try to do a hatchet job on another report doing a hatchet job on Trump. Both seem to have little merit with the passage of time and having been superseded by Trump's own lies and deeds while IN office.

It seems Trump will wriggle out of impeachment despite republican senators openly admitting that he has committed an impeachable act but its not bad enough to be impeached for. FFS !

That's not what's happened at all.

What actually happened was the Democrats utterly ****ed it all up under Schiff in the House by calling no witnesses that had any direct knowledge of what happened and the only one that did came out and said there was no quid pro quo regarding the charge the Democrats were levelling at Trump.

It was actually the Department of Justice that came out and said the Steele Dossier was a load of garbage.

 

[Grombleton]

That's not what's happened at all.

What actually happened was the Democrats utterly ****ed it all up under Schiff in the House by calling no witnesses that had any direct knowledge of what happened and the only one that did came out and said there was no quid pro quo regarding the charge the Democrats were levelling at Trump.

It was actually the Department of Justice that came out and said the Steele Dossier was a load of garbage.

Afternoon Donald.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Afternoon Donald.

Yes heaven forbid what actually has been happening be mentioned.

All brought to you by non-biased reporting. If you could be ****ed to look for it.

 

[Grombleton]

Yes heaven forbid what actually has been happening be mentioned.

All brought to you by non-biased reporting. If you could be ****ed to look for it.

Christ you're easy to wind up

 

[Albion my Albion]

Christ you're easy to wind up

They forgot to attach a mobile to his hand.

He spits out "trash" 500 pages of Trump Trash.

 

[vegster]

That's not what's happened at all.

What actually happened was the Democrats utterly ****ed it all up under Schiff in the House by calling no witnesses that had any direct knowledge of what happened and the only one that did came out and said there was no quid pro quo regarding the charge the Democrats were levelling at Trump.

It was actually the Department of Justice that came out and said the Steele Dossier was a load of garbage.

Funnily enough Trump was caught by a reporter leaving The White House to board his chopper and was asked if he had asked Ukraine to investigate the Biden's... his reply as I recall was " yes" and he even said "maybe China should investigate the Biden's too "... So we have a leader of a country asking a foreign nation to investigate US nationals activities abroad yet goes very quiet when the UK police ask for the return of Anne Sacoolis for an investigation where there has quite obviously been a crime leading to a fatality !

I suppose the difference between the two is of course, any muddying of the water surrounding the Biden's equals a boost to Trumps re-election campaign while defending Anne Sacoolis from investigation looks like Trump is strongly supporting the interests of a US citizen which equals a boost to Trump's re-election campaign. Win Win ! luckily ethics don't feature too highly with The Donald !

 

[DataPoint]

He's so ****ing thick it hurts.

Ok!... right!... so it's gonna be an absolute pushover for the Demigods in November then?

 

[beorhthelm]

I suppose the difference between the two is of course, any muddying of the water surrounding the Biden's equals a boost to Trumps re-election campaign while defending Anne Sacoolis from investigation looks like Trump is strongly supporting the interests of a US citizen which equals a boost to Trump's re-election campaign. Win Win ! luckily ethics don't feature too highly with The Donald !

the Donald probably thinks Ethics a town in Kansas.

 

[Simster]

I find it absolutely remarkable that an American president didn't know Kansas City isn't actually in Kansas State. I'd say that was the American equivalent of a British PM not knowing the difference between GB, the UK and the British isles.

I really did think that even someone as inadequate and ignorant as Trump would know that.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Christ you're easy to wind up

I'm not wound up. This is all hilarious.

It's the ones with Trump Derangement Syndrome that are wound up.

This is the funniest US Presidency ever.