cabinet and his white house staff. david corn s october scoop about those trump memos from a western spy, that was long forgotten. until, ten days before the inauguration, that story came roaring back when cnn reported that both president obama and president-elect trump had been briefed by the intelligence community on a two-page summary of the christopher steele dossier. the information was provided as part of last week s classified intelligence briefings regarding russian efforts to undermine the u.s. election. that report set off alarm bells in the new york offices of buzz feed news. as was true at several other news organizations, reporters at buzz feed had obtained a copy of christopher steele s memos. we looked at things that seemed confirmable. ben smith is buzz feed s editor and chief. he says buzz feed was not able to verify claims in the dossier, but, smith felt that the fact that such a dossier was being
anybody who wanted to conduct due diligence investigations, he knows every personality. jonathan winer is a performer assistant deputy of state for law enforcement in the clinton administration. he says he first met christopher steele in washington in 2009. he knew more about russian organized crime, russian financial crime, russian money laundering, russian corruption than i did, and i knew quite a bit. according to weiner, steal occasionally provided reports on developments inside putin s russia to his colleagues at the state department. the people working russia all the time valued the reports. they thought they were well sourced. they felt they were remarkably timely. the state department wasn t the only u.s. agency to rely on christopher steele. i understood he had a relationship with the fbi relate together fifa soccer standal and had been a significant source for them in making cases in that
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campaign adviser george papadopoulos pled guilty to lying about his own contacts with russian operatives. then a month later another person mentioned in the steele dossier pled guilty to lying if the was trump s former national security adviser michael flynn. flynn has agreed to become a cooperating witness in the mueller investigation. above all else, we know that about the now famous dossier. christopher steele had this story before the rest of america did. and he got it from russian sources. and whether or not the compromise, the alleged american-russian extra spr they heart of steele s narrative is ever proven out, our understanding of what russia did and why and how well they did it and whether they had help, it s all still in its early stages. what is important is that the american public gets the truth, the full truth, and nothing but
feed and fusion gps. david corn fears that are buzz feed may have put at risk the lives of christopher steele s sources. one concern i had was this could put some sources into trouble and, you know, maybe even, you know, put steele into some trouble as well. days after buzz feed published the dossier, the wall street journal publicly identified christopher steele as the dossier s author. the report s compiled by former british spy christopher steele and push lished by buzz feed. within hours of be being outed steele went into hiding with his wife and children. the immediaty were all over him. christopher steele s friend nig nigel west. it was exactly the correct advice that everybody in management would give which is say nothing and disappear. in the days immediately after the dossier s publication, anyone interested in russia s role in the 2016 election had read it, including christopher