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gunsnewing
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So sad
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markvmc
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The clearest proof yet of how Trumpettes see the world differently.
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holfresh
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Rex Tillerson just said he would put US forces in Crimea in a defensive posture....
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holfresh
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Christopher Steele, Ex-British Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump
http://www.wsj.com/articles/christopher-steele-ex-british-intelligence-officer-said-to-have-prepared-dossier-on-trump-1484162553 Christopher Steele, a director of London-based Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd., prepared the dossier, the people said. The document alleges that the Kremlin colluded with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign and claims that Russian officials have compromising evidence of Mr. Trump’s behavior that could be used to blackmail him. Mr. Trump has dismissed the contents of the dossier as false and Russia has denied the claims. Mr. Steele, 52 years old, is one of two directors of the firm, along with Christopher Burrows, 58. Mr. Burrows, reached at his home outside London on Wednesday, said he wouldn’t “confirm or deny” that Orbis had produced the report. A neighbor of Mr. Steele’s said Mr. Steele said he would be away for a few days. In previous weeks Mr. Steele has declined repeated requests for interviews through an intermediary, who said the subject was “too hot.” A LinkedIn profile in Mr. Burrows’s name says he was a counselor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with foreign postings in Brussels and New Delhi in the 2000s. The Foreign Office declined to comment. A LinkedIn profile for Mr. Steele doesn’t give specifics about his career. Intelligence officers often use diplomatic postings as cover for their espionage activities. Orbis Business Intelligence was formed in 2009 by former British intelligence professionals, it says on its website. U.K. corporate records say Orbis is owned by another company that in turn is jointly owned by Messrs. Steele and Burrows. It occupies offices in an ornate building overlooking Grosvenor Gardens in London’s high-end Belgravia neighborhood. The firm relies on a “global network” of experts and business leaders, provides clients with strategic advice, mounts “intelligence-gathering operations” and conducts “complex, often cross-border investigations,” its website says. The dossier consists of a series of unsigned memos that appear to have been written between June and December 2016. Beyond creating the document, Mr. Steele also came up with a plan to get the information to law-enforcement officials in the U.S. and Europe, including the F.B.I., according to a person familiar with the matter. Speaking about corporate-intelligence work in general terms, Mr. Burrows said “the objective is to respond to the requirements set out by our clients. We have no political ax to grind.” He said when clients asked a firm like Orbis to investigate something, you “see what’s out there” first and later “stress test” your findings against other evidence. No presidential campaigns or super PACs reported payments to Orbis in their required Federal Election Commission filings. But several super PACs over the course of the campaign have reported that they paid limited liability companies, whose ultimate owners may be difficult or impossible to discern. The dossier’s emergence—it was published online and widely circulated Tuesday—has generated a firestorm less than 10 days before Mr. Trump’s inauguration. U.S. officials have examined the allegations but haven’t confirmed any of them. The Wall Street Journal also hasn’t corroborated any of the allegations in the dossier. “it’s all fake news,” Mr. Trump said in a news conference Wednesday. “It’s all phony stuff. It didn’t happen.” The dossier contains lurid and difficult-to-prove allegations. The F.B.I. has found no evidence, for example, supporting the dossier’s claim that an attorney for Mr. Trump traveled to the Czech Republic to meet with Kremlin officials, U.S. officials said. The attorney has also denied the claim. The author of the report had a good reputation in the intelligence world and was stationed in Russia for years, said John Sipher, who retired in 2014 after 28 years in the CIA’s clandestine service, where he specialized in Russia and counterintelligence. Private-intelligence firms like Orbis have a growing presence. Major corporations use them to conduct due diligence on potential business partners in risky areas, but quality control can be loose when it comes to high-level political intrigue, according to executives of private intelligence companies. When government intelligence agencies produce clandestine political reports, they often include thick sections about sources, possible motivations behind their information and the methods used to approach them. Such background helps decision makers determine how reliable the information is. |
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Nalod
Posts: 72104 Alba Posts: 155 Joined: 12/24/2003 Member: #508 USA |
holfresh wrote:Christopher Steele, Ex-British Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump I have been following this story and it has no teeth, and even pictures could be phony as well. Its almost as if the story was planted to make CNN look bad. Trump used to bash CNN today and compliment other reporting of it. He said there is a leak and made a thin reference to something Nazi Germany would produce. Scary the way he reprimanded and did not recognize CNN. Its also as if any report that comes out in the near future questioning trump, even If true will be diluted. He is adamant nobody cares about this tax returns. |
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arkrud
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holfresh wrote:Christopher Steele, Ex-British Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump Who cares. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet
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holfresh
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Nalod wrote:holfresh wrote:Christopher Steele, Ex-British Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump Well we aren't going to see the classified information the intelligence have...Seems like they have enough to brief the President, and the Senate is launching their own investigation into coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign...Seems like they have something..That's a big deal...I think this release is a shot across the bow to Trump from the intelligence agencies letting him know they aren't to be screwed with... |