Posted on 07/08/2020 10:22:05 AM PDT by Kozy
someone posted John Solomon’s JustTheNews piece on the following earlier, but I thought every bit of coverage would be posted on FR by now. of course, hardly any of the FakeNewsMSM showing up in my google results as yet!
8 Jul: Washington Examiner: British judge orders Christopher Steele to pay damages to Russian bankers named in dossier
by Jerry Dunleavy
Steele’s claims about Govorun were demonstrably “untrue” because “there is documentary evidence that Mr. Putin ceased to be Deputy Mayor in June 1996, and that Mr. Govorun was first employed by Alfa Bank on 3 March 1997.” The judge said Steele “admitted in cross-examination that Govorun was not working for Alfa before 1997, and that his source had erred in that respect,” and yet “he refused to accept that this meant that Memorandum 112 was inaccurate.”...
“Mr. Steele’s evidence is that he now believes the Ultimate Client was the Democratic National Committee,” Justice Warby said. “[Steele’s lawyer] Mr. Millar submits that the Ultimate Client was the Clinton election campaign, ‘Hillary for America.’ This is in line with the FBI Note of 5 July 2016, which records Mr. Steele telling the FBI that Orbis had been instructed by Mr. Simpson of Fusion and ‘Democratic Party Associates’ but that ‘the ultimate client were (sic) the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign.’ The FBI Note also indicates that Mr. Steele had been told by that stage that Mrs. Clinton herself was aware of what Orbis had been commissioned to do.”
The judge added that Steele knew his dossier might be used to “challenge the eventual outcome of the Presidential Election.”...
Steele testified in March that he met with Michael Sussman and Marc Elias, two top lawyers for the Perkins Coie law firm which represented the Clinton campaign and the DNC, in 2016.
He testified Sussman provided him with the claims about Alfa Bank’s purported ties to Putin during a late July meeting. These allegations made their way into a mid-September 2016 memo that became part of Steele’s dossier, although Steele repeatedly misspells “Alfa” as “Alpha.” Shortly after writing that memo, Steele met with Elias, who was the general counsel for Clinton’s campaign and personally hired the opposition research firm Fusion GPS in April 2016. Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson hired Steele in June 2016.
“I’m very clear that the first person that ever mentioned the Trump server issue, Alfa server issue, was Mr. Sussman,” Steele told Alfa Bank’s lawyers in March. Steele also said, “I was given the instruction sometime after that meeting by Mr. Simpson.”...
Robby Mook, Clinton’s presidential campaign manager, said in 2017 he authorized Elias to hire an outside firm to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia. Mook said Elias was receiving information from Fusion GPS in 2016, and Elias periodically briefed the Clinton campaign...
Perkins Coie was paid more than $12 million between 2016 and 2017 for representing Clinton and the DNC. According to Simpson, Fusion GPS was paid $50,000 per month from Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS paid Steele roughly $168,000.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/british-judge-orders-christopher-steele-to-pay-damages-to-russian-bankers-named-in-dossier
8 Jul: Bloomberg: Steele Dossier’s Billionaire Claim ‘Misleading’, Judge Says
By Jonathan Browning; With assistance by Ellen Milligan
(Updates with comment from Orbis in seventh paragraph.)
A central allegation by a former British spy in his dossier about alleged ties between Moscow and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was “inaccurate and misleading,” a London judge ruled...
Before the London lawsuit, the so-called Steele Dossier had been a major political issue in America because of its allegations...
Steele, who Trump once called a “lowlife,” was retained by a Washington-based research firm, Fusion GPS, in June 2016 to examine Trump’s links to Russia. The Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Hillary Clinton hired Fusion after Trump was headed for the nomination...
Steele’s firm, Orbis, said in a statement on Twitter that the judge held off on steeper sanctions, deeming them neither necessary nor appropriate.
The firm “will ensure that our company’s data handling procedures incorporate” the judge’s findings, Orbis said...
Steele had argued that the lawsuit should be dismissed because the subject matter fell within the remit of national security.
Steele is facing a separate libel suit brought by Aleksej Gubarev, the Russian technology entrepreneur whose tech firm was named in Steele’s dossier. The five-day trial begins in London later this month, where both Steele and former British diplomat Andrew Wood will give evidence.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-08/billionaire-allegation-in-steele-dossier-misleading-judge-says
VIDEO: 8 Jul: Fox News: Ex-spy Christopher Steele ordered to pay damages over ‘inaccurate’ dossier claims
Clinton-funded author breached privacy law, British court finds
by Gregg Re
The dossier made additional inaccurate claims, including that the pair provided foreign policy advice to Putin, the judge found...
Conservatives have pointed out that the dossier, funded indirectly by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC), contained a slew of other apparent inaccuracies. Among the unsubstantiated claims in the dossier: that ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague to conspire with Russian hackers; that the Trump campaign was paying hackers working out of a nonexistent Russian consulate in Miami; that a lurid blackmail tape of Trump existed and might be in Russian possession; and that former Trump aide Carter Page was bribed with a 19 percent share in a Russian company...
The newly released footnotes gave other reasons to doubt the knowledge and credibility of Steele’s main sources, as well as the accuracy of Horowitz’s own report...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/christopher-steele-ordered-pay-damages-dossier
behind paywall:
8 Jul: WSJ: Christopher Steele’s Firm Ordered in U.K. to Pay Damages to Russian Bankers
Judge finds ex-spy falsely alleged in dossier on Trump that pair arranged payoffs to Putin during 1990s
By Alan Cullison and Georgi Kantchev
https://www.wsj.com/articles/christopher-steeles-firm-ordered-in-u-k-to-pay-damages-to-russian-bankers-11594247095
If she really cared about him as a person, she could give him a high level position on her Senate staff but that would not benefit her. His only use was to hurt the President and since he can’t do that anymore, he has no value.
Should have cashiered both of their fat traitorous asses already.
AMF!
Almost as hard as being promoted to Sergeant Major, Master Chief Petty Officer and Chief Master Sergeant.
Great point. I was thinking only of commissioned officers, but I agree that the capability and quality of those you mention is often even higher, and the position harder to achieve.
Not such a tough soldier by the looks of it...
“Bullying”?
Poor baby.
thanks
Wasn’t it the Russians in some joint training thing that he was caught kissing up to by trashing the US?
If so, I’m not so sure he is a ‘Ukrainian patriot’ either.
Prediction: he retired now so that the book, (which he has been secretly writing with his Dem handlers), can be released before the election. He will follow the Bolton pattern; submit it for review then publish it after a denial from the review folks. Causing a media storm over the denial, court case and then claim the book has already been release so nothing the govt can do to stop it.
You may be right, but he is still subject to recall to active duty so he does not have the same ability as Bolton in that regard.
They’ll call him back out of retirement when they finally go the tribunals.
She was about to give her reaction, but there was no time left.
True. The next three months will be interesting. If there is a book it will be timed for October release so that there is limited time to refute it.
This guy got a Purple Heart. Would like to read the reason and event that led up to the award. There has been talk he was carried Er eyes looked the other way during his special forces training. Maybe because he spoke Russian and Ukraine the higher up thought it would be nice to have him as an officer.
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