Steele also took the dossier to the FBI (and other intelligence agencies in the US and England). The FBI offered to pay Steele to keep digging up dirt on Trump! -- but when the dossier went public and the media trumpeted its claims, the FBI withdrew its offer.
Given that background, let's go deeper.
The fact that Hillary's team paid to get damaging info on Trump is no surprise. It's called opposition research, and many candidates engage in it.
But paying Steele to put together the dossier and hiding the payments --that's illegal. It's also a ruse to parlay the un-vetted dossier into a pretext for: Democrat eavesdropping on Trump and his associates, as well as Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump.
The contents of the dossier are open to question. Is Steele's research accurate?
And here is what no one is examining in any depth. Steele claims, in the dossier, that he was talking with a number of well-placed Russian officials. That's where he obtained his information.
What? Why would these Russians speak with him? Why would these Russians expose a purported plot, built by their own colleagues, under Putin's orders, to hand the election to Trump?
If such a plot existed, it would be a tightly controlled secret.
Yet, here are Russian intelligence people spilling the beans to Steele, a former British spy.
And by spilling the beans, they're risking their own lives, because there is a good chance their Russian colleagues and superiors will be able to track them down and identify them, since they've had connections to Steele in the past.
Steele appears to have pulled off an intelligence op for the ages. He goes to Russia, sits down with a number of Russian intel people, asks them questions, and they tell him all about a top-secret plot to sway a US election. No problem.
Keep this in mind as well. While Steele worked for MI-6, the British spy agency, he was stationed in Moscow (1990-92) using a diplomatic cover. In order to put together the numerous Russian sources he was able to tap years later while assembling the Trump dossier, Steele must have blown his cover to pieces as he cultivated those Russian intel sources back in the 1990s. Odd, to say the least.
Let's imagine a similar scenario playing out in the US. During a campaign to elect a president of Russia, a Russian ex-spy who once worked at the Russian Embassy in Washington, under diplomatic cover, comes to the US and sits down with a few of his old pals from the CIA.
Risking their reputations, careers, and lives, these CIA people tell him that, under orders from the president of the US, they've been putting together files on one of the Russian presidential candidates. They tell him they favor this candidate. They tell him they have important blackmail info on this candidate and can control him if he wins the Russian election. THEY HAND HIM THE MOST IMPORTANT INFO IN THE FILES.
Poof. No problem. The Russian ex-spy returns to Russia with the info.
Really? How likely is that?
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