oldNslow wrote on 01/11/18 at 06:44:52:The dossier, rather than being the nail in Trump's coffin, as so many folks fervently wish, may instead turn out to be the coup de gras for Comey, McCabe and a bunch of other high mucky mucks in the FBI. In fact if it turns out to be the case that the dossier was used as the justification for the FISA warrant that led to the Trump Tower spying, it's probably going to sink the Mueller investigation too.
Probably not going to help Sessions job prospects going forward, or John McCain's credibility either.
From the NEW YORKER:
This week marks one year since BuzzFeed’s publication of the controversial “Russia dossier,” the document compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele that claimed the Russian government had been “cultivating, supporting, and assisting” Donald Trump for years, and that the Kremlin was holding incriminating material about Trump, including a sex tape from a Moscow hotel room.
In the past twelve months, we’ve learned a good deal more about the Steele dossier, including that it was commissioned by the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which received funding from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. Some of the allegations in the dossier, including the one about the sex tape, haven’t been corroborated, and Trump has described it as a “Crooked Hillary pile of garbage.”
(In publishing the dossier, BuzzFeed noted that the allegations it contained were unverified and that it contained errors.)However, we have also learned that the F.B.I. took Steele’s work seriously enough to interview him before the 2016 election. After the election, according to the Washington Post, the Bureau agreed to pay Steele to do some more research, but that agreement was cancelled after BuzzFeed published the dossier. There have also been unconfirmed reports that the Bureau used the dossier to obtain secret warrants to tap the phone of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager. And, last January, James Comey, while he was still the F.B.I. director, informed President-elect Trump about the contents of the dossier.
Oh, so they know of errors, lets call them, uh....lies, UNtruths, perhaps, like in fiction????
Why would the FBI pay someone else to do their job?
Yeah, about that dossier.
Do you have any idea what its cost productivity to our country?
Makes great tabloid titillation, however.... for robots to read