Senior FBI Official Shared ‘Russian Probe’ Intel With Dossier Author Christopher Steele

Money on Mueller.

Lotta good info in that article. Comms is still our best INT, I suppose.

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So when Steele contacted the FBI in mid-2016 with information about Trump and the Russians, he was already a valued source. On about July?4, 2016, he met with his FBI friend in London to share what he had gathered for a June 20 Fusion GPS report, the first chapter of his eventual dossier. In that first report, Steele’s sources claimed that Russia had been “cultivating” Trump for at least five years.

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What about Republican claims that Steele spawned what Trump calls a “witch hunt”? It’s true that Steele was hired by Fusion GPS, an investigative firm paid to dig up dirt on Trump, first by Republican opponents, then by Clinton supporters. But Steele went through well-established contacts, and the FBI got serious only after it obtained its own independent information.

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Steele’s main FBI connection was a senior agent he had met in 2010, when he shared information about corruption in the international soccer federation known as FIFA. Steele, who had retired from MI6 the year before, had been retained as a private investigator by the Football Association in England. His FBI contact was involved in international organized-crime investigations. The FIFA investigation helped bring Justice Department indictments in 2015 that toppled the organization’s leadership.

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teele’s information didn’t get much high-level attention at first. But bells began ringing in July, after Australian intelligence told the FBI about an unusual conversation two months earlier between Australia’s London high commissioner and George Papadopoulos, a Trump foreign policy adviser. As the New York Times reported last month, Papadopoulos had told the Australian official that Russia had damaging political information about Clinton. The Australians decided to share this intelligence with the FBI after hacked Democratic emails were published in July.

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The FBI was now very interested. Based on the Australian account, knowledgeable sources say, the bureau requested another meeting with Steele to dig deeper. That encounter took place around Oct. 1 in Rome with Steele’s old FBI contact. At this meeting, the FBI official asked Steele if he had ever heard of Papadopoulos, according to an official familiar with the meeting. Steele hadn’t.

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bullshite.

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Lotta good info in that article. Comms is still our best INT, I suppose.

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SIGINT UBER ALLES

Sig quote worthy post. Well said.

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At this meeting, the FBI official asked Steele if he had ever heard of Papadopoulos, according to an official familiar with the meeting. Steele hadn’t.

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I can't imagine why an FBI investigator would be out there investigating things.

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Navytiger74

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That is from the opinion section...

Probably should've been from the hyperbole section...

And if the FBI wants to keep its integrity, they had better hope the part about Steele comes from the fabrication section...

Because it validates the OP...the FBI were working foreign agents to gather salacious info about a private citizen with no reason to investigate.

Seems legit.

Look at the vermin deflect!

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It's not my information, but I'll try to defend it.

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I bet.