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FBI 'offered British spy $50,000 to corroborate his claims in the dirty dossier on Trump' [tr]
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 21:07 EST, 18 December 2017 | Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com

Posted on 12/18/2017 6:56:13 PM PST by SSS Two

- Fox News analyst on Monday highlighted claim FBI offered cash for Trump dirt

- Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein refused to answer when asked in inquiry last week

- Republicans accuse disgraced agent Peter Strzok of using dossier for wiretap

- Questions over FBI integrity are mounting as Mueller election probe nears end

Claims have resurfaced that the FBI offered the British spy behind the 'golden showers' dirty dossier $50,000 to corroborate his claims about now-President Donald Trump.

'I believe, just from examining the public sources, that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $50,000 if he could corroborate the dossier. He either couldn't, didn't, wouldn't, and they didn't pay him the money,' news analyst Andrew Napolitano told Stuart Varney on Fox Business Monday.

Former MI6 agent Steele's dossier claims the Russians possess compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump, and alleges the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

Napolitano appears to be basing his claim on an April report from the New York Times, which cited two sources claiming that an FBI agent met Steele in Rome in October of 2016, just weeks before the presidential election.

The agent offered Steele $50,000 if he could get 'solid corroboration of his reports', which the FBI ultimately never paid out, the report said.

Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refused to tell the House Judiciary Committee whether the FBI had paid or offered to pay for the dossier.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 201610; chrissteele; coup; dossier; election; fbi; fbisteele; fusiongps; goldenshowersdossier; mueller; peepeedossier; rosenstein; steele; trump; trumpdossier; trumprussia
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To: mazda77

Partial stupidity, but most of the questionable actions we’re seeing by the Demons has more to do with arrogance: These traitors honestly thought they had no chance of losing this election, and by getting Hillary into place to continue the destruction of the country started by Obama, they could make sure no Republicans were ever elected President again.


61 posted on 12/19/2017 5:15:47 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: pepsionice
I once helped a former associate of mine, a licensed HAM operator, to set up a temporary antenna by launching an arrow up over some pine trees that pulled a string along with it, which we then used to pull a small (18 gauge?) copper wire up over the trees.

Worked well enough, did HAM stuff all weekend from southeastern Oklahoma. Talked to some Russians, believe it or not...

62 posted on 12/19/2017 5:19:42 AM PST by OKSooner (Be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life! - POTUS Donald J. Trump)
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To: Maverick68

That is the one word answer I always give my wife when she asks; Why did they do that? ARROGANCE

Always gets them in the long run.


63 posted on 12/19/2017 5:34:45 AM PST by mazda77
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To: nevermorelenore
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. Proverbs 6:16‭-‬19 ESV http://bible.com/59/pro.6.16-19.ESV ... Amen!
64 posted on 12/19/2017 5:42:34 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Hurtling deplorable!)
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To: markomalley

bump


65 posted on 12/19/2017 6:06:28 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: BerryDingle

Excellent point.......we continue to hear about Watergate decades after it occurred but the largest mass killing in the history of the United States has been swept under the rug!?


66 posted on 12/19/2017 6:42:24 AM PST by EODGUY
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To: SSS Two

Isn’t this at least unethical if not illegal?

This seems to me one of the most damning revelations of this whole mess.


67 posted on 12/19/2017 7:06:56 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: SSS Two

Your tax dollars at work!


68 posted on 12/19/2017 7:10:22 AM PST by keats5
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To: SteveH

“apparently (from article reading) the range of the amateur ham radio is on the order of 20-25 miles.”

For VHF without repeaters, yes. Other bands can reach the other side of the world if conditions are right.

L


69 posted on 12/19/2017 7:10:40 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: markomalley; The Shrew

Excellent information - thanks.


70 posted on 12/19/2017 7:12:49 AM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: markomalley

Thanks.

L


71 posted on 12/19/2017 7:15:41 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

They should be indicted, but I have zero confidence anyone will be held to account for this obvious coup attempt. Congressional investigations are almost useless, Sessions is useless, the President’s hands are tied, and Mueller keeps rolling along. It’s a truly horrifying turn of events.


72 posted on 12/19/2017 7:23:45 AM PST by Avalon Memories (The question about fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
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To: txhurl

You might be right... RUMOR......This time, instead of my family’s favorite pizza parlor, they’re after my long time hobby, convinced that a woman with ties to Fusion GPS got a ham radio license in order to hide communications to help a bid to undermine President Donald Trump’s campaign.
The focus is on a woman named Nellie Ohr, who is married to a top Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr. Why she was working with the group Fusion GPS – which was paying a former British intelligence agent to put together the Trump Dossier – is certainly something of note.

http://www.statesman.com/news/national-govt—politics/the-conspiracy-theorists-came-for-pizza-2016-now-they-after-hobby/xYajLd2XXRdEHJfYXC9zTJ/


73 posted on 12/19/2017 7:29:09 AM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump, Greatest election Ever.)
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To: SSS Two

Who investigates the FBI? This is some serious breach of ethics and appears criminal.


74 posted on 12/19/2017 7:32:23 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Olog-hai

How does a person who voted for a Communist get to be head of the CIA? We’ve been so compromised as a nation. Think about what you would do, if you were in a secret planning committee decades ago that was developing ways to compromise the US. You would use the US open society as an opportunity to infiltrate the reigns of political power and dissemination of information. You would push ‘open door’ policies to accomplish rapid demographic shifts and thus destabilize. You would push economic policies that led to massive public debt, and massive consumer debt. All of this has happened, and is happening.


75 posted on 12/19/2017 7:47:56 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: SteveH
"The people interested in ham radio in SF bay are mostly retired engineers who spent their boyhood days getting their eagle scout badges. So far as I am aware, it is a male nerd thing, "

SteveH, Have you looked at a photograph of Nellie? She/he just might fit in your description.

76 posted on 12/19/2017 7:47:57 AM PST by Flint
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To: SSS Two

Think of what this means to people working in law enforcement, who risk their lives everyday wearing the uniform:

For 8 years under the Democraps cops were bashed relentlessly resulting in cop assassinations all across the country. When a thug tried to kill a cop, and the cop defended himself, the White house actually sent reps to the funeral of the the thug! And Hillary who BTW if you’ll remember had her husband pardon FALN terrorists in New York who killed and maimed cops, honored the mother of that attempted cop killer at the Democrap convention.

Here comes Trump doing the exact opposite: Showing respect for cops, honoring the cops and our military, and who does the FBI support? The b*tch who hates cops, who protected and celebrated cop killers.

THAT’S HOW CORRUPT THE FBI IS!!! IT’S MIND BLOWING!


77 posted on 12/19/2017 7:51:21 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The Remoulade was a trifle tart)
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To: SSS Two

Drip, drip, drip.


78 posted on 12/19/2017 8:25:40 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: SSS Two
The obama flag


79 posted on 12/19/2017 8:27:21 AM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2020)
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To: SSS Two

I didn’t know the Mueller election probe was about to end.


80 posted on 12/19/2017 9:05:12 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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