Clinton Campaign / DNC paid for Steele Dossier

The Zax said:
our FBI pays foreign intel officers to spy on our president.

That's called deep state shenanigans

it's also treasonous.
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It's funny watching the JPP liberal snowflakes circle their wagons and try to throw up barricades to the FACTS.

Is Hillary going to commit Arkenside, which the DNC can then blame on her "illness" and "find" evidence that she's the one who instigated all this!!

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noise said:
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.

Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.

After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.


Fusion GPS gave Steele’s reports and other research documents to Elias, the people familiar with the matter said. It is unclear how or how much of that information was shared with the campaign and DNC, and who in those organizations was aware of the roles of Fusion GPS and Steele. One person close to the matter said the campaign and the DNC were not informed of Fusion GPS’s role by the law firm.

The dossier has become a lightning rod amid the intensifying investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia. Some congressional Republican leaders have spent months trying to discredit Fusion GPS and Steele, and tried to determine the identity of the Democrat or organization that paid for it.

Trump tweeted as recently as Saturday that the Justice Department and FBI should “immediately release who paid for it.”

Elias and Fusion GPS declined to comment on the arrangement. Spokespersons for the Clinton campaign and the DNC had no immediate comment.

Some of the details are included in an Oct. 24 letter sent by Perkins Coie to a lawyer representing Fusion GPS, telling the research firm that it was released from a client-confidentiality obligation. The letter was prompted by a legal fight over a subpoena for Fusion GPS’s bank records.

People involved in the matter said that they would not disclose the dollar amounts paid to Fusion GPS, but said that the campaign and the DNC shared the cost.

Steele previously worked in Russia for British intelligence. The dossier is a compilation of reports he prepared for Fusion. The dossier alleged that the Russian government collected compromising information about Trump and the Kremlin was engaged in an active effort to assist his campaign for president.

Fusion GPS’s work researching Trump began during the Republican presidential primaries, when the GOP donor paid for the firm to investigate the real estate tycoon’s background.

Fusion GPS did not start off looking at Trump’s Russia ties, but quickly realized that those relationships were extensive, according to the people familiar with the matter.

When the Republican donor stopped paying for the research, Elias, acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, agreed to pay for the work to continue.

The Democrats paid for research, including by Fusion GPS, because of concerns that little was known about Trump and his business interests, according to the people familiar with the matter.

Some of Steele’s allegations began circulating in Washington in the summer of 2016 as the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into possible connections between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Around that time, Steele shared some of his findings with the FBI.

After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.

The dossier was published by BuzzFeed News in January. Fusion GPS has said in court filings that it did not give BuzzFeed the document.

In early January, then-FBI Director James B. Comey presented a two-page summary of Steele’s dossier to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump.

Congressional Republicans have tried to force Fusion GPS to identify the Democrat or group behind Steele’s work, but the firm has said that it would not do so, citing confidentiality agreements with its clients.

Last week, Fusion GPS executives invoked their constitutional right not to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. The firm’s founder, Glenn Simpson, had previously given a 10-hour interview to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Over objections from Democrats, the Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), subpoenaed Fusion GPS’s bank records to try to identify the mystery client.

Fusion GPS has been fighting the release of its bank records. A judge on Tuesday extended a deadline for Fusion GPS’s bank to respond to the subpoena until Friday while the company attempts to negotiate a resolution with Nunes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...b9_story.html?utm_term=.1569774179d7#comments
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What's more is that the piss dossier was used by Comey and Clapper to obtain FISA warrants so they could wiretap the Trump campaign even though they knew it was absolute bullshit.
 
All of the lies, all the msm propaganda for a year... and the results? It was the lying, desperate, ignorant fools in the Obama administration, the Clintons, rinos, et al who were colluding with the Russians. Spending mega $$$$$$$$ in a blind goose chase in which there was no actual goose.

Making deals with them, drumming up phony dossier stories, knowingly lying to us, the United States, the employers who in effect sign their paychecks, buy their health insurance, fund their pensions! This is the story today and for years to come. And, we finally have a Zookeeper in Chief who is trying to clean out the cages and ponds of predatory beasts and reptiles. No wonder politicians were terrified of an 'outsider' coming in to expose their mud-dwelling ways and disrupting their corruption and their dirty little world.
DRAIN THE SWAMP AND ALL ITS DENIZENS. :mad:
MAGA!
 
domer76 said:
They hired an American firm to do opposition research. You RW tards have a problem with that?
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REPUBLICANS hired the firm to get oppo research on trump. Once he won the primary, the Dems took up on the investigation.

Notice how everything in the dossier has been proven to be accurate? They don't want to speak on that.
 
archives said:
This is really kinda comical, the conservatives here are having a circle jerk over something they can't explain or even tell us why it is supposedly a big deal

Guess things really are that desperate
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Trace it back to Nunes, who colluded with trump in the obstruction of justice. He was supposed to remove himself from the House oversight of Russia, but he's been nipping at everyone's heels with these stupid little pieces of old info.

He's still trying desperately to obstruct his own House investigation.
 
It's not nice to lie to the NYT.............

Maggie Haberman of the New York Times became the object of scorn and anger after she pointed out a very simple fact borne out of a blockbuster report out of the Washington Post about Hillary Clinton.

What did she say?

Haberman simply pointed out that the Clinton camp had denied a report that was later confirmed about the Clinton camp providing the funding for the “Trump dossier.”

The explosive report from the Washington Post claimed that a Clinton lawyer hired a political organization, Fusion GPS, that then hired a former British spy to compile the Trump dossier.

It was later used by U.S. intelligence agencies as they investigated claims of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.

What was the reaction?

Clinton defenders were fiercely protective and assailed her for simply stating an obvious fact.

story continues at http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/1...over-one-tweet-that-angered-clinton-defenders
 
So It Was actually the Democrats and Hillary who colluded with a foreign government to affect the outcome of a US election.
Oh what a tangled web we weave.

All they had to do was shut up after Trump won, but their whiny ways would not let them drop it.

get what you ask for sometime



PraiseKek said:
What's more is that the piss dossier was used by Comey and Clapper to obtain FISA warrants so they could wiretap the Trump campaign even though they knew it was absolute bullshit.
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I havn't seen proof of that , YET,
but that would be criminal, and a whole lot of heads will roll if they used second hand dossier rumors to obtain a federal warrant to spy on someone

this could get really good
 
Althea and Evince have evidently stopped watching, reading and listening to the news.....even from WaPo, NYT, WSJ, CNN, MSNBC, etc. LOL
 
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