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Yes, Steele had good relationships with our intelligence community. I don't see how that bears on the beginning of the investigation. I haven't seen anything a
by jpfed 7y ago
Yes, Steele had good relationships with our intelligence community. I don't see how that bears on the beginning of the investigation.
I haven't seen anything actually credible that Mifsud was western intelligence.
- zaroth 7y agoChris Steele (an agent of a foreign government) was dead-set on preventing Trump from becoming President. He had high level contacts at the FBI and DOJ which he was in contact with throughout early 2016. Hopefully one day it will become fully clear what Steele was telling Bruce and Nellie Ohr, up until the very day before the FBI opened their investigation, when Nellie met Chris at the Mayflower Hotel on July 29, 2016. But we do know at least that it was lies, mostly (Russian?) lies, that Steele was feeding the FBI. And we know certainly those lies had a bearing on the character and direction of the investigation, and on the methods employed to attempt to gather evidence (FISA), even if it is not the publically admitted initial basis for starting the investigation. Mifsud, for his part, has gone to ground and isn’t taking interviews.