Posted on 03/18/2019 6:22:07 PM PDT by Beave Meister
More than 15 journalists, several U.S. government officials and multiple lawmakers were shown or given the Steele dossier during the 2016 presidential campaign or shortly after.
Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele disseminated the dossier far and wide in an apparent attempt to insert the document’s salacious allegations into the media.
Newly unsealed court filings show how widespread this effort was.
Court documents released last week in a lawsuit involving the Steele dossier revealed new details about the campaign to disseminate the infamous anti-Trump report to the press and within the U.S. government.
Much was already known about Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele’s efforts to seed the dossier with reporters and government officials. Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson orchestrated several meetings between Steele and Washington, D.C.-based journalists prior to the 2016 election. It has also been widely reported that Steele and Simpson met with government officials in an attempt to ensure that Steele’s unverified findings landed on the government’s radar.
A deposition given by David Kramer, a longtime associate of former Sen. John McCain, shed light on even more contacts with reporters and government officials. Kramer’s Dec. 13, 2017, deposition was released on March 14 along with a batch of other documents from a dossier-related lawsuit against BuzzFeed News.
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How did it spread? Think of how a rumor spreads in high school
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The cops heard about the rumour but dismissed it as gossip..Then the kids told their parents about the rumour..the parents called the cops and since now the cops have muitiple sources they had to start an investigation ( Aka fisa warrant)
The rumour turned out to be false but while investigating they found out in 1st grade 15 years earlier a boy put bubble gum in a girls hair.. the boy was then kicked out of high school
Yup.
He ain’t doing a damn thing about this.
That he is.
McIdiot was never very smart.
Someone told him to do this and I suspect either Reid or Shumer.
Maybe Rove can explain it with his white board. :)
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