Exclusive: Mueller's team met with Russia dossier author

[orangecrush]

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators met this past summer with the former British spy whose dossier on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign spawned months of investigations that have hobbled the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Information from Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 officer, could help investigators determine whether contacts between people associated with the Trump campaign and suspected Russian operatives broke any laws.
CNN has learned that the FBI and the US intelligence community last year took the Steele dossier more seriously than the agencies have publicly acknowledged. James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, said in a January 2017 statement that the intelligence community had "not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable."
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The intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, and the FBI took Steele's research seriously enough that they kept it out of a publicly-released January report on Russian meddling in the election in order to not divulge which parts of the dossier they had corroborated and how.
This contrasts with attempts by President Donald Trump and some lawmakers to discredit Steele and the memos he produced.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/special-counsel-russia-dossier-christopher-steele/index.html

[get the red out]

1. I am so glad Muller is investigating this

I feel a little better when things like this, about Mueller's investigation, come out. Otherwise I live in constant outrage.

[Not Ruth]

2. I know that 80% of the dossier was confirmed so far, was the above confirmed yet?

[orangecrush]

4. We will have to wait

To find out.

[Gothmog]

3. Great Meme

[orangecrush]

5. Thanks!