The documents underlying his now infamous Russian dossier are long since destroyed, but Christopher Steele’s recollections of his political opposition research on President Trump nearly four years later are poised to create new heartburn for Democrats.
Steele recently testified in a British court that he believed both then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and then-Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice were aware of his dossier research as it was going on in summer 2016.
The testimony makes his most direct link yet between his Russia collusion research and the top of the Clinton campaign and Obama White House.
Steele told a British court he believed he had been hired by the Fusion GPS firm owned by Glenn Simpson through the Democratic National Committee-linked law firm Perkins Coie to assist the Clinton campaign during the election, according to a transcript of the testimony.
“I presumed it was the Clinton campaign, and Glenn Simpson had indicated that. But I was not aware of the technicality of it being the DNC that was actually the client of Perkins Coie,” Steele testified in March under questioning from lawyers for Russian bankers suing over his research.
“You knew it was the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign didn't you?” a lawyer for the businessmen asked.
“I believed it was the campaign. Yes,” he answered.
“The leadership of the Clinton campaign?” he was asked.
“Fine, the leadership of the campaign,” Steele conceded.
The lawyer persisted.
“You also understood that Hillary Clinton herself was aware of what you were doing?” the lawyer asked.
“I think Glenn had mentioned it, but I wasn't clear,” Steele answered.
Then Steele was confronted with what lawyers said were notes he took at a meeting with the FBI in 2016 in which he purported to tell agents that Clinton was aware of his research. The lawyers read from those notes during the court proceedings.
The notes, according to the transcript, read: “We explained that Glenn Simpson/GPS Fusion was our commissioner but the ultimate client were the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign and that we understood the candidate herself was aware of the reporting at least, if not us.”
The lawyers prodded: “It’s your note, so we assume it’s accurate?”
“Yes,” Steele answered during the March 17 testimony. You can read that testimony here.
Messages seeking comment that were left Tuesday at Hillary Clinton’s office and the Clinton family library were not returned.
A day later in additional testimony, Steele was asked how he came to present some of his dossier findings to the U.S. State Department during an October 2016 meeting with then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec.
The former British MI6 agent turned private intelligence investigator said his meeting was set up by State officials Jonathan Winer and Victoria Nuland after longtime Clinton adviser and friend Strobe Talbott had reached out to him.
“The meeting was set up by a State Department official called John Winer,” Steele explained.
“At your request?” the lawyers asked.
“No, at his request, his suggestion. He invited us into meet, as I understood it, at her request, Assistant Secretary of State Nuland,” Steele answered.
The lawyers asked whether Talbott opened the door in October.
“I think Strobe Talbott had gotten in touch with us much earlier than that,” Steele answered. “I remember taking a phone call from him, your lordship, earlier in the summer in which he said that he was aware that I had — he spoke in fairly cryptic terms — but he was aware that we had material of relevance to the U.S. election.
“A little bit of background, if I may, your lordship on that,” Steele added. “Both National Security Advisor at the time Susan Rice and Åssistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who were the key policymakers on Russia, had been colleagues of Mr. Talbott. And I had, although he didn't state it explicitly, one or either or both of them had briefed him on the work we had been doing.”
You can read that part of the testimony here.
Winer has acknowledged having contact with Steele in the summer of 2016, and Nuland has also acknowledged she was aware State officials met with the British operative. Erin Pelton, a spokeswoman for Rice, told Just the News on Tuesday that Steele’s claim was “utterly and completely false.”
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they know it all a long that's the reason why they didn't want Donald Trump to be the president.
Gun runners, ask harry reid who brusied up his face. He was lied to about who the guns were going too.
Just lock up Hillary Clinton for installing a server in her basement and deliberately receiving classified information for her personal convenience. Cut and dried, no question, done deal, long overdue, end of story. Then take all the time you need to pursue Steele, Obama, Comey, Strzok, Brennan, etc., etc., etc., et al. Of course, Hillary can still be convicted of all the other related criminal activities she will undoubtedly be shown to be up to her eyeballs in, including, but not limited to: Benghazi, Clinton Foundation pay for play, DNC funding irregularities, etc., etc., etc., et al. I recommend a "suite" at the Clinton State Peniteniary, NY. Oh, the irony! "Unbridled Ambition", Indeed!
in the early eighteen hundreds,
the whig political party,
kicks out,
miscreants and ne'er do wells and thugs and theives and psychotics,
this bunch goes off and forms the DemoNcRAT party,
they go downhill since then,
under Lucifer Bastard Johnson they pick up speed,
under 0bamanation they turn on the afterburners
R.I.C.O. and subsequent firing squad is in order for this attempted coup!. RESIST,PERSIST AND INCIST!
I'd like to see a round-up on the first day... of the top 10 deep state criminals... starting with Obama, Hillary, Bill, Holder, Comey, Rosenstein, etc.
I hope that the entire pack of lying weasels behind this scheme have to answer for it. After watching the political criminals in government skate free for so many years without being seriously challenged with legal repurcussions has become very discouraging and my hope for justice in this case is waning with each passing week without indictments and convictions. It's business as usual within The Beltway and the fat get fatter and the rest of us pay.
If I were King, I would have them all executed 'en masse', along with Congress. They do not work for us; they have not worked for us for many, many years.
Babble BS.
I have lost a great deal of faith in the American people. Hillary is a multiple felon who almost won the Presidency. Now, using Covid-19 as a distraction used to bring down the entire world economy into a deep depression, the American people is asleep. After this depression kills half a billion people globally, will the American public wake up? Only God knows. As much as I would like to see anyone connected to Bill or Hillary imprisoned for life, these are very small potatoes. The Greatest Depression - the ensuing great numbers of related deaths and the New World Order born of the Plutocrats are the 'great' shuttered topics.
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