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HERE’S HOW THE STEELE DOSSIER SPREAD THROUGH THE MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT
The Daily Caller ^ | 3/18/2019 | Chuck Ross

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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You need a frigging tote board to keep track of all the sh!t these people did. I love it when liberals brag about how clean the Obama administration was and how nobody is in jail....I'm pretty sure that's gonna change, and the sooner the better.
1 posted on 03/18/2019 6:22:07 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Meanwhile, the AG is polishing the carrot.


2 posted on 03/18/2019 6:24:36 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Beave Meister

It is case just like this that we created GITMO and/or Rope.


3 posted on 03/18/2019 6:25:53 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Beave Meister
I remember someone interviewing McNoName on the radio. The smarminess just OOOZED out of his mouth. He said he felt it was his duty to get it to the FBI just as soon as possible. LOL, I wonder if the pages had cooled from the FBI printers when he gave it back to them, after they gave it to him.

#Don'tMissTheTraitor

4 posted on 03/18/2019 6:29:40 PM PDT by blu (WWG1WGA)
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To: Beave Meister

Those LIARS almost pulled it off. Too bad they failed ... now we get to go after them ... LOL ...


5 posted on 03/18/2019 6:29:51 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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...ensure that Steele’s unverified findings landed on the government’s radar.

"Unverified findings"?

Come on, DC. It was all pure concocted and fabricated bullish!t and not one bit of it was true. How do you verify such garbage?

6 posted on 03/18/2019 6:39:11 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Beave Meister

Is Steele anywhere that the long arm of the Law can touch him? He tried to throw a Presidential Election in favor of the Democrats!! There has to be a Law against that!


7 posted on 03/18/2019 6:50:21 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: Beave Meister

I smell a HUGE!!!!!!!! libel suit coming from Trump, involving hundreds of defendants, in the media, in the democratic party (DNC), in the Hillary campaign, in the Obama administration, and the suit will be for 10s of billions of dollars, which, hopefully, Trump will promise to donate to charities.


8 posted on 03/18/2019 6:53:07 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Beave Meister

John McCain’s still a POS.


9 posted on 03/18/2019 6:59:47 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Beave Meister

It appears Steele met with everyone in Washington except the Republican Congress committees investigating Russian collusion. Issa, Nunez, Gowdy couldn’t haul him in to testify?


10 posted on 03/18/2019 7:06:11 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on)
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11 posted on 03/18/2019 7:30:58 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Soul of the South

of course, once a single FakeNews outlet published anything about the phony Clinton/Russia dossier, the story could be/was picked up by ALL FakeNewsMSM worldwide.

e.g. look at all the flak Buzzfeed got, yet who funded them? NBC to the tune of hundreds of millions, for starters.


12 posted on 03/18/2019 7:35:20 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Beave Meister

How was this not an illegal in kind contribution to the Hillary campaign?


13 posted on 03/18/2019 7:38:22 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: Soul of the South
Issa, Nunez, Gowdy couldn’t haul him in to testify?

IMO, they didn't want to. It was so much safer to just flap their lips than to actually do anything.
Remember - before all else - they are POLITICIANS!

14 posted on 03/18/2019 8:26:22 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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Actually Glenn Simpson was called to testify and did...

https://www.scribd.com/document/368772718/Glenn-Simpson-Testimony


15 posted on 03/18/2019 8:40:22 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Roccus; Soul of the South

Actually Glenn Simpson was called to testify and did...

https://www.scribd.com/document/368772718/Glenn-Simpson-Testimony

More than once... in Jn 8 or 9 2018 and in August 2017:

https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/read-the-full-transcript-of-glenn-simpsons-senate-testimony/2700/


16 posted on 03/18/2019 8:42:08 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Turns out Freepers flap their lips instead of investigate, too.


17 posted on 03/18/2019 8:43:21 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Beave Meister

How did it spread? Think of how a rumor spreads in high school

Except James Brennan is the weird kid who eats glue, Nancy Pelosi is the ditzy cheerleader, Peter Strzok is the sociopath who carves his names in desks, and John McCain is the preppy kid who sucks up to teachers.


18 posted on 03/18/2019 8:48:42 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Beave Meister

History will note all of this in detail
If the beast won. We’d know nothing. At all
Trump would be in jail


19 posted on 03/18/2019 9:37:12 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Beave Meister

tote board
***************
I would love to see a graphic showing the route the fraudulent and libelous dossier took. At least to the extent we reasonably know based on corroborated testimony and documentation. Is somebody working on this.
And I want to see on that graphic the point at which HRC said, “If that f-—ing bastard wins, we all hang from nooses.” (hmmmm....., wonder what she meant)
M-O-R-E
W-I-N-N-I-N-G!!


20 posted on 03/18/2019 9:50:04 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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