Posted on 10/24/2017 3:50:36 PM PDT by kristinn
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community.
Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Prior to that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC through the law firm continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.
Fusion GPS gave Steele’s reports and other research documents to Elias, the people familiar with the matter said. It is unclear how or how much of that information was shared with the campaign and DNC, and who in those organizations was aware of the roles of Fusion GPS and Steele. One person close to the matter said the campaign and the DNC weren’t informed of Fusion GPS’s role by the law firm.
The dossier has become a lightning rod amid the intensifying investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia. Some congressional Republican leaders have spent months trying to discredit Fusion GPS and Steele, and tried to determine the identity of the Democrat or organization that paid for it.
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Elias and Fusion GPS declined to comment on the arrangement.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Since this dossier has been proven false MUELLER NEEDS TO GO!!!!!!since they based it on that!!! Mueller’s agenda was to clean out all the database from the uranium scandal! I guarantee you there will not be any charges against the bitch and her cronies!! Bank on it!!! The data has been wiped clean completely!!
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So, a criminal conspiracy is now “research?”
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Reason why the Washington Post decided to release that information because Mueller gave them permission since they have completed wiped all the database info of the uranium scandal completely!
That is exactly what I thought....
Per the article:
The Clinton campaign paid Perkins Coie $5.6 million in legal fees from June 2015 to December 2016, according to campaign finance records, and the DNC paid the firm $3.6 million in “legal and compliance consulting’’ since Nov. 2015 — though it’s impossible to tell from the filings how much of that work was for other legal matters and how much of it related to Fusion GPS.
At no point, these people said, did the Clinton campaign or the DNC direct Steele’s activities. They described him as a Fusion GPS subcontractor.
Some of Steele’s allegations began circulating in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2016 as the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into possible connections between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Around that time, Steele shared some of his findings with the FBI.
After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.
Correctomunde...
The Trump investigation just blew up in the Dems’ face.
“We literally begged them to investigate” Trump.
—Hillary Clinton
I wonder if some of this information was on DWS's laptop and explains why she was so desperate to get it back. She was the head of the DNC at the time.
It remains to be seen how much longer the Mueller investigation will go on given this new information, at least the Russian collusion portion.
Jebra is my guess.
There’s more to it.. who funded the DNC is in question and could have been a Republican donor.
We’ll see where it leads but my guess is three years from now nothing will have been done to anyone even if there’s overwhelming criminal evidence.
Cockroaches are running from the light.
Not only that, but the first two authors' names are "Adam Entous" and "Devlin Barrett". These are obviously thinly disguised pseudonyms for the real authors' names, "Mome" Mentous, and "Grinnen" Barrett.
get under the bus, Hillary...
Two very familiar words stand out in the article-
Perkins Coie
Billary, Inc and DNC to Putin:
“We’ll hire some folks who will come to your folks, and you have your folks invent some allegations about Trump; then when we win, we’ll reward you with nicer relations and more business deals like Uranium One.”
More or less.
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