A former British intelligence officer now working for a private security-and-investigations firm produced the dossier of unverified allegations about President-elect Donald Trump’s activities and connections in Russia, people familiar with the matter say.
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.”
Saw this too:
Someone from 4ch@n actually came on the Jeff Kuhner talk show just now and gave the inside baseball. His name was Tom and he says the group is talking to a lawyer and they're not going to let this drop. Probably for their own protection, I would think.
He was part of the group who created the original story. Apparently Rick Wilson's son writes ludicrous stories about this kind of stuff for his own pleasure, I guess. So the piss story was made to annoy Wilson about the kind of material his son writes. Purely a joke. And what initially started as a joke made it up the chain of command with Wilson to Evan McMullin who I think passed it on to McCain and McCain passed it on to the Intel agencies and media.
The CIA ADDED STUFF about Russia which was NOT in the original story (which is probably why they're talking to a lawyer.)
Obviously all the news media is involved but this is going to become a much bigger story than it is even now and I would not be surprised if McCain was forced to resign and Tapper is fired. Please excuse any typos as it's hard to get this on a mobile.
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ploppy ago
https://twitter.com/trsprudence - twitter page now deleted.
Update: http://www.wsj.com/articles/christopher-steele-ex-british-intelligence-officer-said-to-have-prepared-dossier-on-trump-1484162553
Saw this too:
Someone from 4ch@n actually came on the Jeff Kuhner talk show just now and gave the inside baseball. His name was Tom and he says the group is talking to a lawyer and they're not going to let this drop. Probably for their own protection, I would think.
He was part of the group who created the original story. Apparently Rick Wilson's son writes ludicrous stories about this kind of stuff for his own pleasure, I guess. So the piss story was made to annoy Wilson about the kind of material his son writes. Purely a joke. And what initially started as a joke made it up the chain of command with Wilson to Evan McMullin who I think passed it on to McCain and McCain passed it on to the Intel agencies and media.
The CIA ADDED STUFF about Russia which was NOT in the original story (which is probably why they're talking to a lawyer.)
Obviously all the news media is involved but this is going to become a much bigger story than it is even now and I would not be surprised if McCain was forced to resign and Tapper is fired. Please excuse any typos as it's hard to get this on a mobile.
ThePuppetShow ago
Did you delete this thread? Nevermind...