Posted on 02/28/2019 6:34:22 PM PST by TigerClaws
The depositions given by former British spy Christopher Steele and a longtime associate of John McCain must be unsealed, a federal judge said Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro overruled the objections of both Steele and David Kramer to make the depositions public. The pair gave testimony in a lawsuit brought against BuzzFeed in December 2018 by a Russian Internet entrepreneur.
The businessman, Aleksej Gubarev, was referenced in the infamous dossier compiled by Steele about President Trumps alleged connections to Russia. Gubarev objected to BuzzFeeds publishing of the dossier in January 2017, which accused him of using his companies to hack into computers owned by the Democratic National Committee.
The depositions could be released as soon as March 14.
Ungaro dismissed the libel suit brought by Gubarev in December, ruling that the publishing of the dossier was protected by the fair report privilege.
BuzzFeed was heavily criticized for publishing the unverified 35-page dossier, which contained salacious allegations against the president.
Kramer, a former State Department official, gave the dossier to BuzzFeed in December 2016, after meeting Steele in London weeks earlier.
Steele was hired by Fusion GPS during the 2016 presidential campaign to compile opposition research on Trump.
Last year, Republicans from the House Intelligence Committee put together a memo that accused the FBI and the Justice Department of obtaining surveillance warrants to spy on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, by using the dossier, but failing to present key information, including its author's anti-Trump bias and Democratic benefactors, to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Democrats argued in a rebuttal memo that the FISA process was not abused and the GOP allegations are meant to discredit special counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation.
Trumps former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen cast doubt on the dossier in a hearing with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. The dossier claimed Cohen visited Prague during the 2016 campaign to meet with Russian officials, b
Ruh roh. Hope the DemoKKKrats have plenty of vaseline. They are about to get it in the you know where.
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The depositions given by former British spy Christopher Steele and a longtime associate of John McCain must be unsealed, a federal judge said Thursday.
We gonna have some fun real soon kids!!!
Thanks for the ping
Carter page was surveilled what happenrd to this information
we can hope...but not getting my hopes up
Yep, I'll believe it when I see 'em posted online too..
Is this the beginning of the Declass!....woot!
Good, this opens the door for declass even without Mueller being finished.
Can't wait to see what that douche-bag had to say.
The timing....must have something to do with Mueller’s report.
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(boom?)
Are we there yet? :)
You’re welcome, MileHi.
The depositions given by former British spy Christopher Steele and a longtime associate of John McCain must be unsealed, a federal judge said Thursday.
The genesis and eventually the entire scope of the conspiracy against Trump and our American system of government is about to enter the public domain. The nexus of the major media, a political party, Deep state actors and allies from foreign countries will all soon be exposed. Let the treason trials begin...
hey, we forgot about this little piece of ____
“In a Facebook post from June 24, 2017, that Tablet has seen in screenshots, Jacoby claimed that her husband deserves the lions share of credit for Russiagate. (She has not replied to repeated requests for comment.) Its come to my attention that some people still dont realize what Glenns role was in exposing Putins control of Donald Trump, Jacoby wrote. Lets be clear. Glenn conducted the investigation. Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris Steele worked for Glenn. This assertion is hardly a simple assertion of family pride; it goes directly to the nature of what became known as the Steele dossier, on which the Russiagate narrative is founded. The fact that Jacoby is a reporter who often shared bylines with her husband at The Wall Street Journal is another reason to take her Facebook post seriously.”
DID PRESIDENT OBAMA READ THE STEELE DOSSIER IN THE WHITE HOUSE LAST AUGUST?
News of the News: Why the timeline of the scandalous report that fuels Russiagate matters
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/251897/obama-steele-dossier-russiagate
letter to Barr
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