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This would appear to have been refuted by the latest release: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/24/democratic-memo-gop-fbi-trump-campaign-423446 https://w

• zaroth 9y ago
  "The dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, wasn't provided to the FBI's counterintelligence team until mid-September 2016, according to the memo." This statement could be perfectly true, while it's also perfectly true Steele met with the FBI in July, and had multiple other channels to provide information to various other FBI departments. It doesn't particularly matter exactly how the investigation started. If you've read the dossier and now knowing what we know about how it came to be, it's pretty disgusting. "FBI officials indicated that Steele himself was not advised that the work he was doing was on behalf of the Clinton campaign." Now this is something I hadn't heard before! That is absolutely shocking that we're supposed to believe this ex-Spy was in the dark about who was paying him?
  • flatline 9y ago
    IIRC the genesis of the dossier was opposition research by other Republicans. We’re talking about intelligence operatives, they probably never actually know where the money is coming from, and it often flows from different and sometimes competing sources. These organizations run on secrecy and distrust.
  • neotek 9y ago
    He knew exactly who was paying him, he just may not have known who was paying those people.