Former UK ambassador to Moscow says McCain asked him about Trump dossier

[dembychoice]

Source: theguardian

A former British ambassador to Moscow has revealed the role he played in bringing the explosive dossier about Donald Trump’s alleged links to Russia to the attention of the US intelligence agencies.

Sir Andrew Wood was consulted about the claims by Senator John McCain at a security conference in Canada shortly after the US election.


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Wood said he did not have the dossier but that McCain obtained it from his own sources. It was written by former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele and handed to the director of the FBI, James Comey.

“I told him I was aware of what was in the report but I had not read it myself, that it might be true, it might be untrue. I had no means of judging really,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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Interesting read.....and wow......Friday the 13th might not be too good for THE DONALD!

[TubbersUK]

1. Very interesting

Right or wrong, the report source has pedigree.

This caught my eye.

The Russian embassy in London claimed in a tweet that the British intelligence services played a role in the scandal, writing: “MI6 officers are never ex”. Wood brushed off this suggestion, saying: “They’re speaking [about] their experience with KGB officers, I suppose.”

[KewlKat]

2. found this part interesting

Wood said he believed Steele was a “very competent professional operator”, adding: “I do not think he would make things up. I don’t think he would necessarily always draw the correct judgment but that’s not the same thing at all.”

Former Foreign Office and intelligence officials told the Guardian on Thursday that Steele was highly respected in the intelligence community.

Steele’s dossier contains “pretty central accusations” about a presidential candidate being complicit in the hacking of his rival, and about the Russian intelligence services holding lurid sexual material on Trump, Wood said. “These seemed to me to have important implications - if true.”

The allegations were lent weight by some of Trump’s public behaviour on the campaign trail, he added. “It is a suggestion that was I think given certain colouration by the way Trump talked about the hacking exercise and by the stories about his treatment of women, and of course the KGB and FSB now make it a regular practice to do honeytrap exercises.”

[Lulu KC]

3. Honeytrap? Eww. n/t

[Achilleaze]

4. Honeytrap. Ew Ew Ew

Evil shit.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. The Brits seem to have his number

Would be interesting if any Scots have anything too.

[Rowdyag]

6. More smoke

More and more smoke, will the GOP ever look for the fire? One can hope it engulfs them but, doesn't burn the house down.