Posted on 01/16/2018 9:52:40 AM PST by b4its2late
Congressional investigators probing the origins of the Steele dossier have set their sights on a brand new target — The Obama State Department. Were Obama State Department officials responsible for spreading discredited tidbits compiled in the dossier through the media? Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes may soon find out.
Byron York of the Washington Examiner reports the Obama State Department is now being probed as to whether or not they had a hand in the dossier. York notes Steele was viewed inside the Obama State Department as a valuable source for intelligence on all things Russia. Obama State officials made a habit of disseminating reports the former British spy authored for private clients around the Department:
"A book published in November by a correspondent at the Guardian, “Collusion: Secret meetings, dirty money, and how Russia helped Donald Trump win,” noted that Steele’s 2010 work on the World Cup soccer corruption investigation won him the trust not only of the FBI, but the State Department as well. From author Luke Harding:
The [soccer] episode burnished Steele’s reputation inside the U.S. intelligence community and the FBI. Here was a pro, a well-connected Brit, who understood Russian espionage and its subterranean tricks. Steele was regarded as credible. Between 2014 and 2016, Steele authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine. These were written for a private client but shared widely within the State Department and sent up to Secretary of State John Kerry and to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who was in charge of the U.S. response to the Ukraine crisis. Many of Steele’s secret sources were the same sources who would supply information on Trump. One former State Department envoy during the Obama administration said he read dozens of Steele’s reports on Russia. The envoy said that on Russia, Steele was “as good as the CIA or anyone.” Steele’s professional reputation inside U.S. agencies would prove important the next time he discovered alarming material, and lit the fuse again."
Hillary Clinton, who admitted her 2016 presidential campaign helped fund the dossier, was Obama’s Secretary of State between January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013.
Former British spy Christopher Steele, who was tasked with compiling the ‘Trump dossier’ for opposition research firm Fusion GPS, recently admitted in court that the discredited document contains “limited intelligence.”
Steele also admitted part of “his final December memo,” was unvetted.
“Such intelligence was not actively sought; it was merely received,” Steele added.
As The Gateway Pundit‘s Cristina Laila reported, it is now being reported by Paul Sperry of the New York Post that the Senate Judiciary Committee has discovered “credible evidence of a CRIME” committed by Christopher Steele in his dealings with the FBI.
“DEVELOPING: Senate Judiciary Committee has discovered “credible evidence of a CRIME” committed by dirty Hillary DOSSIER author Christopher STEELE in his dealings with the FBI … declassified memo detailing the alleged crime forthcoming …” Sperry tweeted.
The dossier contains explosive, but unverified, opposition research that alleges intel ties between Russia and Trump and also claims Russia holds sexual blackmail material over Trump.
So now the Crooked State Dept will begin to investigate Crooked State Dept along with the Crooked FBI.
Oh poop....
Just more dancing around and no production.
Get with the program and start marching the perps in front of a judge.
Why everything goes nowhere. They are all criminals.
Obama was as much the Criminal in Chief as he was the Enemy in Chief.
You do an actual due-diligence investigation of the Obama Administration, you’ll find plenty of crime.
You actually do the job of the DOJ, and you’ll follow up with arrests, charges, and indictments of Obama and Co.
One of the reasons Mueller’s investigation is going nowhere is that the level of malfeasance and the number of high-ranking government officials involved in it makes it impossible to bring criminal charges for anything remotely connected to this FISA surveillance. If a member of Trump’s campaign team was charged with some kind of crime related to “collusion” with the Russians, that person would have the right to subpoena half the Obama administration as witnesses in the case. The prosecution would end up dropping the charges because of the national security implications of a credible defense in the case.
BOOM?
(HAT TIP BYRON YORK-—emphasis/editing added)
EXCERPT-—It is hard for an outsider to discern clearly what is going on inside the current dossier investigations. But it appears some investigators are looking beyond the 35 pages of reports done by Steele for Fusion GPS (the opposition research firm working for the Clinton campaign and the DNC), published Jan 2017 by BuzzFeed.
They’re looking into whether:
<><> Steele did reports about Trump, perhaps similar to the published dossier.
<><> whether those reports made their way to the Obama State Dept.
<><> what individual State Dept officials did in relation to Steele, and,
<><> whether contacts occurred between Obama’s State Dept, the FBI or DOJ about anti-Trump material.
It’s not yet clear whether Obama/Hillary State Dept activity WRT the project took place
(A) in the months leading up to the 2016 election (B), during the transition, or, (C) both.
Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton was, of course, secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
...and if they’re not criminals, there’s a good chance they end up dead.
We have known since the beginning of the Pissgate dossier that it was Jen Psaki getting the idea from a Tinder date that she had in early 2016.
The closer anything gets to fingering Obama the more tightly it will get shut down. Anyone with half a brain knows he’s into this up to his eyeballs.
Obama is seen as the ultimate in virtue and only because of the color of his skin. His pigment makes him untouchable.
For decades, the State Department has been a source of Black Budget funding and closeting black ops for the CIA for decades:
You have to have a tic....toc... first
Good point. What is the status or bearing this will have on manafort & PadaD? These people have been charged. They can have the lawyers look into FISA and many other aspects. I am sure the Meuller Team will fight but in the long run they may have to drop everything. In the meantime the Awans are running rings around the DOJ.
Seems like everybody and their brother are investigating everything..except the DOJ.
You have it correct. Obama is in this 100%. No one will touch him. No one will even mention his name. The guy Campbell disappeared. Sessions has disappeared.The IG has already run its term and is nothing of substance. I guess all are waiting on the Modterms to save us. Republicans. Kicking the can down the road for hundreds of years.
You may have known that from the beginning but that’s the first I’ve heard of it.
Not a whisper. Makes you wonder why that POS is laying low.
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