Christopher Steele, CBS
John Sipher, Politico: The Smearing of Christopher Steele
A former British intelligence officer provided information to the FBI because it alarmed him. Given the way he’s been treated, future tipsters will be less likely to come forward.
In his effort to malign the U.S. Justice system and confuse the American people in a hail-Mary attempt to protect President Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes seems to also have confused himself.
As we now know, the intent of Nunes’ memo was to suggest that the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign was undertaken on false premises. It alleges that the FBI abused its surveillance authority by issuing a warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page by basing its rationale on the controversial Steele dossier. It implies that the British intelligence officer behind that memo, former MI-6 operative Christopher Steele, and those who supported the warrant were biased against then-candidate Trump, and that the FBI and Justice Department purposely withheld that information—and the Democratic funding behind the dossier—in an attempt to gain the warrant.
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WNU Editor: Wow .... the U.S. media is still circling the wagons on this guy and his unverified Russia-Trump dossier. It has now been over a year since this memo made the news when BuzzFeed publicized it .... and to this day all that we know is that the Clinton campaign paid for it, and that some of Hillary Clinton's supporters fed Christopher Steele some of his intel as well as some of his third party sources overseas .... Dossier author Steele wrote another anti-Trump memo; was fed info by Clinton-connected contact, Obama State Department (Washington Examiner). Smearing him?!?!?! He has done a very good job by himself in doing this.
