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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Steele Dossier Is Increasingly Being Corroborated
The Steele Dossier Is Increasingly Being Corroboratedby Nancy LeTourneau March 8, 2017 11:15 AM
The Steele Dossier Is Increasingly Being Corroborated
by Nancy LeTourneau
March 8, 2017 11:15 AM
One of the lessons that reverberates from the whole Watergate investigation is that Deep Throat counseled Woodward and Bernstein to follow the money. To the extent that holds for the investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign cooperated with Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election, a guy by the name of Mikhail Kalugin head of the Economics Section of the Russian Embassy in the U.S. at the time is a critical piece of the puzzle.
While his name is misspelled, here is what the Steele dossier says about Kalugin:
a senior Russian MFA official reported that as a prophylactic measure, a leading Russian diplomat, Mikhail Kulagin, has been withdrawn from Washington at short notice because Moscow feared his heavy involvement in the US presidential election operation, including the so-called veterans pension ruse (reported previously), would be exposed in the media there.
The so-called veterans pension ruse is reported in the dossier to be the way that Russia arranged to pay hackers and others who were involved in the presidential election operation. That report is dated September 14th and, as it turns out, Kalugin actually left DC and returned to Russia in August. Even more significantly, here is what McClatchy reported about Kalugin last month.
A Russian diplomat who worked in the Washington embassy left the country last August while federal investigators examined whether he played a key covert role in the alleged Kremlin-directed plot to influence last falls U.S. elections.
Two people with knowledge of a multi-agency investigation into the Kremlins meddling have told McClatchy that Mikhail Kalugin was under scrutiny when he departed. He has been an important figure in the inquiry into how Russia bankrolled the email hacking of top Democrats and took other measures to defeat Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump capture the White House, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/03/08/the-steele-dossier-is-increasingly-being-corroborated/
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The Steele Dossier Is Increasingly Being Corroborated (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2017
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triron
(22,011 posts)1. Rachel discussed this last nite.
triron
(22,011 posts)2. kick for visibility
triron
(22,011 posts)3. kick again
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)4. follow the money, indeed. nt