Posted on 01/12/2017 6:38:19 AM PST by VitacoreVision
An ex-MI6 officer who is believed to have prepared memos claiming Russia has compromising material on US President-elect Donald Trump is now in hiding, the BBC understands.
Christopher Steele, who runs a London-based intelligence firm, is believed to have left his home this week.
The memos contains unsubstantiated claims that Russian security officials have compromising material on Mr Trump.
The US president-elect said the claims were "fake news" and "phoney stuff".
Mr Steele has been widely named as the author of a series of memos - which has been published as a dossier in some US media - that contains extensive allegations about Mr Trump's personal life and his campaign's relationship with the Russian state.
Among the allegations are that Moscow has a video recording of Mr Trump with prostitutes and damaging information about his business activities. 'In fear'
BBC News correspondent Paul Wood said he understood Mr Steele left his home on either Tuesday or Wednesday, before he was publicly named, and was now "in hiding".
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Is it just me or is the media working overtime to keep the damage to Trump up by referring to “damaging dossiers that allege Russian blackmail schemes with salacious videos of orgies” without ever saying “which turned out to be totally fake”? They mention them and the casual reader say “huh, this guys in hiding after telling the truth about Trump, he must be scared of a drone coming after him”
All of the Michael Cohens should sue him.
You're going to miss his bombshell announcement that's going to change everything.
Most likely, the dossier against Trump was cribbed from the Internet and other sources of gossip, speculation, and invention. In legal controversies, I have seen even absurdly expensive, supposedly fact-based "investigative reports" by national PI firms staffed by former federal agents fall apart on examination because they were at heart nothing but dressed up gossip collected from former colleagues who were treated to meals and drinks.
Even worse, the point of Chris Steele's dossier against Trump was to generate and spread about lurid but superficially plausible fiction that could be rumored and reported by the news media against Trump without them being easily vulnerable to a suit for libel. Thus Buzzfeed reported on the dossier as of public interest because it was briefed by the US intelligence community. Even though Buzzfeed also treated the dossier as of doubtful veracity. CNN then reported on the Buzzfeed story and acted as its tout so that the underlying allegations would be spread far and wide.
Trump and his company ought not to settle for this week's victory but should seek a definitive resolution by suing Chris Steele and his firm in Britain under their more plaintiff favorable libel laws. Michael Cohen and the Trump organization should be the plaintiffs, with Trump's personal claim added by way of assignment. Then Steele can be forced to admit that it was all a fiction and to provide a full accounting of his role and of who else was involved.
Unfortunately, if this is not done, this smear against Trump is likely to be resurrected by his enemies in the news media and on the Left. The Trump as Russian agent claim is too useful to abandon, and some form of blackmail by the Russians is so easy to imagine that the dossier will be suspected to be true in some sense even if some details were gotten wrong and Trump bullied the news media off the trail. After all, the dossier has to be true in some sense because it was compiled by a former MI-6 agent. Or so Trump's enemies will argue when it is useful and effective to do so.
A former MI-6 agent who now own$ and run$ a company that provide$ to it$ cu$tomer$ exactly what they want: DIRT.................
Wait, how do we know it wasn't the CIA that handed the dossier to CNN?
That’s about the size of it. Yet, for the general public, calling someone “former MI-6” confers credibility, as if it refers to a retired James Bond type instead of the smear merchant that he is.
Is it just me or is the media working overtime to keep the damage to Trump by referring to "damaging dossiers that allege Russian blackmail schemes.....
From up Canada way, I do hope that sufficient members of the general public realize just what is going on. I have viewed elections for over 60 years, I have never seen such a contrived and organized juggernaut against one person. Even if persons dislike Donald Trump, surely they can take a step back and "give the man a chance".It has been said that a smear is almost impossible to disprove. Sometimes it can, but vague references and anecdotal accounts can be seen as reality.
It is a media conspiracy and they should be damned as political tools and flunkies. I did hear a great rebuttal and put down, on talk radio the other night. It was Clyde Lewis on Ground Zero. He did not lose his cool, but gave it to the press both barrels. (Excuse my rant. Canadian television just as bad as their counterparts in the States.)
I am not sure if you are being sarcastic or not...
I don’t mean physically afraid - I mean afraid they are going to plaster his name all over the world in their anger that he exposed their hypocrisy even more
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