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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteel McCain link
Last night Rachel, reported Steel had helped at least one president of the US(I'm thinking this was Obama), and that a former VP candidate was working with the Kremlin. I think this was likely, "I can see Russia from my house" Sarah Palin. It would then make since that, he likely has worked with and trusted McCain previously, therefore McCain ended up with the dossier.
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Steel McCain link (Original Post)
dewsgirl
Feb 2018
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Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)1. Whaaaaat?
I need more info, please.
Are you talking about Christopher Steele, author of Trump dossier?
cilla4progress
(26,126 posts)2. Read this very good WAPO article
if you can get past the paywall.
Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation.
http://wapo.st/2BMGgeC
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)3. Thank you, I was trying to find it.
cilla4progress
(26,126 posts)4. More...
In the fall of 2016, a little more than a month before Donald Trump was elected president, Christopher Steele had the undivided attention of the FBI.
For months, the British former spy had been working to alert the Americans to what he believed were disturbing ties Trump had to Russia. He had grown so worried about what he had learned from his Russia network about the Kremlins plans that he told colleagues it was like sitting on a nuclear weapon.
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In the early fall, he and Burrows turned to Dearlove, their former MI6 boss, for advice. Sitting in winged chairs at the Garrick Club, one of Londons most venerable private establishments, under oil paintings of famed British playwrights, the two men shared their worries about what was happening in the United States. They asked for his guidance about how to handle their obligations to their client and the public, Dearlove recalled.
Dearlove said their situation reminded him of a predicament he had faced years earlier, when he was chief of station for British intelligence in Washington and alerted U.S. authorities to British information that a vice presidential hopeful had once been in communication with the Kremlin.