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procon

(15,805 posts)
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 02:22 PM Feb 2018

The Steele dossier was not the first or the only source of intel on Trump.

Republicans have been screaming for months about the Steele dossier, convinced that this document, which was partially financed by the Clinton campaign, was the sole source of an FBI conspiracy against Trump.

They're lying.


'FBI knew of collusion allegations during campaign'

But subsequent reporting, including by the Guardian and the New York Times, has shown that US intelligence agencies were prompted to investigate the issues before they received the dossier. The Guardian reported in April that foreign intelligence services, including Britain’s GCHQ, were among the first to alert US counterparts to contacts between Trump’s campaign and Kremlin operatives.

The New York Times reported last week that Australian officials passed information about a Trump foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, to US counterparts after he bragged that Russia had compromising information about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/russia-trump-inquiry-fbi-knew-of-collusion-allegations-during-campaign



And if that isn't enough, the FBI has planted a mole inside the Trump organization:

The ​former British intelligence agent who compiled the controversial dossier on Donald Trump said the FBI told him the agency had a “source” inside Trump’s presidential campaign, according to a transcript of a Senate interview released Tuesday.

https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/author-of-trump-dossier-told-feds-there-was-a-mole-in-trump-campaign/






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The Steele dossier was not the first or the only source of intel on Trump. (Original Post) procon Feb 2018 OP
More than one of our allies, soon to NOT be allies, have intel on the crimes of the trump family Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #1
The dossier is just a dossier. C_U_L8R Feb 2018 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. More than one of our allies, soon to NOT be allies, have intel on the crimes of the trump family
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 02:24 PM
Feb 2018

and those associated with them.

They need to release that info and now.

C_U_L8R

(45,020 posts)
2. The dossier is just a dossier.
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 02:33 PM
Feb 2018

A simple report. Reporting all various Trump crimes, conspiracies, collusions, cheats, etc with various degrees of backup and certainty. As any report might have. Tapping multiple sources - from official records to rumors. Republicans want to blame the dossier's investigators (and the dossier itself) for having uncovered vast corruption in all of Donald Trump's dealings - from what Russian hoodlums are giving him money to launder to what Russian hookers are peeing on his bed. And there are many more dossier's around the world just like this one. Trump cannot hide.

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