Posted on 01/11/2017 3:39:02 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
A former British intelligence officer who prepared a dossier about President-elect Trump’s ties to Russia has been identified, according to a new report.
Christopher Steele created the controversial document about the Russian government’s alleged power over Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The dossier, which alleges links between Trump's campaign and the Russian government, as well as the existence of compromising Russian-owned material on Trump, created a stir Tuesday. CNN reported that the dossier's contents came up in an intelligence meeting with Trump, and BuzzFeed later published the unverified document — two reports Trump and his staff denounced in a press conference today.
Steele is now a director at a private security and investigations firm in London, according to the Journal.
Steele, 52, is one of two directors at Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd. The dossier's creator has been repeatedly described in reports as having a good reputation in intelligence circles.
Orbis was formed in 2009 by former British intelligence professionals, according to the firm’s website. The company mounts “intelligence-gathering operations” and conducts “complex, often cross-border investigations. . ."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Liz, I’m pinging you on the Orbis thing, in case it’s of interest.
And who is the “western diplomat” who gave McCain the info while both were in Nova Scotia?
I wouldn't bet on it.
Brexit is something they have to figure out themselves. If the British Establishment wants to stop it, that's something they'll have to do at home. It's certainly not up to Donald Trump, who'll be busy with a lot of other stuff.
Faking a story like this would be a putting a lot of effort into something that won't have much of a pay-off and could really blow up in the perpetrators' faces. There are enough unhinged ex-intelligence agents in the world that this doesn't have to be anything more than some nut's private project.
Plus, I'd have thought Britain's Establishment would be a lot smarter than this (but I could be giving them too much credit).
Must have been during the 2016 Halifax International Security Forum. List of participants here...
http://halifaxtheforum.org/participants
Check out that list..
FWIW, I think the Brits, or at least their uniparty, has something to hide.
Ping
If McCain’s contact was someone at that conference, there are two people at that link I’d put some questions to...
Trump discussed that his people were not the source of the leak. The press conference was very good. Try and watch it if possible. There was much more discussed than just this scandal.
I’m not sure if I believe there any U.K. Intelligence was truly involved. I think they are trying to make the story appear more believable as to how our CIA and Some media outlets fell for this ridiculous story. They are covering their ass big time.
Tim Kaine was at that forum in Nova Scotia...
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1415963-mccain-kaine-among-conference-delegates
And JOHN MCCAIN Gave the LIES to COMEY!!! And most likely to the ENEMEDIA!!!
If the person who gave McCain the doctored info was an attendee at that conference, what do you think the chances are that Tim Kaine’s attendance is a coinkydink...?
Interesting that the handover/contact/dissemination was done on Canadian soil....
BTTT.
>> They gave it to him as somewhat of an educational thing, as an example of disinformation. They did have a briefing with him and they showed him this, but they told him it’s an example of disinformation.
I understand this to be not quite true. According to http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/11/nbc-intel-official-trump-allegations-are-unvetted-disinformation-video/#ixzz4VTSM8eUM, “A senior U.S. intelligence official who was involved in the preparation for the meeting tells NBC that the president-elect was not briefed on this so-called two-page addendum of these allegations against him,”
but supposedly had it at the ready *in case* he had a question about real vs. fake intelligence. It is awfully convenient spin on it, don’t you think? This way, they can blame BuzzFeed for misinterpreting its intent, rather than take the heat for spreading the false meme to begin with.
Tom Arnold - Quentin McCale in McHale’s Navy. He was supposedly an intelligence officer. McCale’s Navy was a remake of a 60s movie based on a WWII movie
Lieutenant Commander Quentin McHale was played by Ernest Borgnine.
Thanks.
Nutty underemployed British guy with some former spy cred makes money by doing Google searches and talking with catfishing trolls on Internet.
Nutty Brit gets pranked. Hard.
Hands his FRESH HOT INTEL TOTALLY DONE HIMSELF WHILE NOT SITTING ON A SOFA SCARFING DOWN CHEETOS to the highest bidder - Hyper-Anti-Trumper Evan McMuffin.
McMuffin hands off the pass to McLame, who speeds to the end zone and slams the ball - in an empty stadium.
McLame wins the Special Olympics, political division.
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