Reuters is reporting the DNC paid Dossier author, Christopher Steele, is refusing to be questioned by DOJ investigator John Durham. This follows a pattern of Chris Steele refusing to talk to congress and also refusing to talk to Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Obviously, he has multiple somethings to hide….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said.
Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source close to Steele’s London-based private investigation firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.
Trump has given Barr broad authority to declassify intelligence materials related to the investigations. Last week Trump ordered the heads of U.S. spy and law enforcement agencies to cooperate with Durham. (read more)
Bin Laden lived the last days of his life not communicating with the world outside his compound using electronics and burning his waste to destroy any DNA trail to his doorstep, but we found him anyway. Steele can still do the right thing now or – for all practical purposes – live like Bin Laden did for the rest of his life.
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Don’t be a silly billy.
You’re proposing a SEAL raid or assassination in Britain?
All this fellow did was create a fraudulent political smear dossier….yes, probably with the nod and wink approval of the Brit intel establishment, which will never be proven…. save your angst for the people who knew about its origins, yet used it in a FISA Court.
Steele is a very minor actor.
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Actually his source was a sanctioned Russian I think that might be grounds for charges. Further more knowingly providing losing to the FBI is another crime I think the UK would.extridite him for us.
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I don’t see him creating it, I think he legitimised a document produced by others closer to Arlington co-operating with the Ukrainians, using Nellie Ohr as their front end.
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I agree, I think Hillary already had the Dossier, and just replaced the words “Bill Clinton” with “Donald Trump”. Much easier to take an existing report and change it than to make it up from scratch….
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He participated in and help facilitate the coup against our President. He deserves the same sentence as all others involved; death.
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money talks and BS walks, offer enough money and his mother will turn him in
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“All this fellow did was create a fraudulent political smear dossier.”
….that could have brought down a sitting President or encouraged someone to do the same using violent means, not to mention the 2 years of wasted time and $40 million of our taxpayer money. Fraud has it repercussions and this perp was in it up to neck. I wouldn’t cut him an inch of slack. I hope he gets caught up in this dragnet along with some media types. A good dose of justice could go a long way to putting this country back on track.
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After being holed up in his Compound for more than 5 years along with his 3 wives, and not being able to leave…it has been reported that Bin Laden is the one who placed the call to the Seals.
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LOL
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Better yet scare him, because instances of strange attacks in the UK against folks involving Russian stuff is pretty common and very lethal. Fake attack and sanctuary in US Embassy should do the trick.
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If they can arrest Assange and extradite him then the United States can arrest and extradite Steele. Steele should be tried as an “enemy combatant” for what he attempted to do.
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Steele’s handlers up the chain of command will do everything possible to avoid his testimony being compelled. If I were Steele I’d do my best to disappear.
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Hillary can disappear him.
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Hillary can disappear him.
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but I repeat myself.
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It bears repeating.
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That was funny!!
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This is the exact response/reaction I would want following the declassification directive and as the initiation of a real investigation begins….
If I was a prosecutor sharpening his tools…..
Steele, who pimped his “dossier” literally all over the Western world…will NOW not respond to a serious and LEGAL investigation…
An allegedly major CIA source gets suddenly and totally burned in a NYT article….
Chris Wray RECENTLY redacting damaging info in an UNCLASSIFIED DoS email…
All just based on ONE BUCKET which will soon be revealed…..
And politically….
A judiciary chairman who suddenly lost his subpoena pad and can’t get a Special Counsel to testify about his ALREADY publicized report.
These are precisely the actions I would hope for if my vice tightening on nuts was beginning to get uncomfortable.
They are Flailing
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This post wins lots o’ stars!
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I bet BH Obamboozler doesn’t want to be questioned either. I don’t think we need either one to make a clear case of criminality.
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Save him for last, when the answers to all the questions are known.
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So alert CNN and ninja-raid his office AND house simultaneously at 0-dark-thirty… BET they could find something of interest. Just saying…
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Durham doesn’t “have the power to issue subpoenas.” He names the ham sandwich to the Grand Jury and the Grand Jury has their assigned Judge issue the subpoena.
Also, as I pointed out in my previous post, there is no “not a crime in the UK” bar to extradition. That’s why the U.K. courts ruled Assange could be extradited to Sweden for his two felonious “removal of consent” sexual assaults.
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I should also mention that the “UK–US extradition treaty of 2003” allows extradition of UK citizens for offences committed against US law. An example would be the “NatWest Three” who extradited to Texas on fraud charges.
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Durham is a US Attorney. He IS able to issue subpoenas.
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A subpoena is an order issued under the authority of a court or a judge. In this case, a “subpoena ad testificandum” or “court summons to appear” could be issued by the Judge assigned to the Grand Jury that John Durham empaneled.
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“A subpoena is an order issued under the authority of a court or a judge.”
Your statement does not cover congress, who have been throwing subpoenas around, so it must be false.
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Crooked Hillary, or Obama will probably have him murdered, if he does talk!
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One less firing squad to muster.
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Always that odd photo image of Christopher Steele. Any video of this guy? Maybe he is not real at all, just a composite.
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Go to google and type in James Bond and you find plenty of other photos.
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I know! Is there not at least a British media outfit that has snapped a pic of this guy in the last 3+ years?
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The Daily Mail found him in March 2019 in the rail station & he bolted but they got pics.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6850863/Ex-Brit-spy-wont-defend-dodgy-dossier-RUNS-Trump-cleared-Russia-collusion.html
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Put him on the no-fly list. And monitor ALL of his communications. He’s not a US citizen, we can freely spy on him.
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Oh, how I love your thinking.
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Freeze his assets per the “Forfeiture of Assets Located in Foreign Countries” statute.
But seriously, have the Grand Jury issue a subpoena to “appear and testify.” When he fails to appear, issue a criminal contempt charge and demand extradition under the UK–US Extradition Treaty.
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Hopefully Steele has seen Disneyland because now it’s too late.
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He’ll talk. We may never know what he said, but he is going to talk. Look, the conspirators know what they did. How do they know that Steele isn’t saying one thing in public and singing like Pavarotti in private? He embarrassed British intelligence. I expect they intend to punish him for that. He is going to talk and may have already. The other conspirators have to assume the worst. They aren’t making their own decisions, they have lawyers whose only loyalty is to their clients. Just publicizing the attempt at questioning him has no doubt left them with no choice but to assume Steele has talked and they are at risk of twisting in the wind. What would you do?
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Perhaps the UK government will compel him to talk with US investigators, unless the UK wants all the beans spilled about their part in the coup. Leverage!
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I’d rather have the beans spilled, thank you. We, the People, need to see that foreign nations did, in fact, try to interfere with our elections and those foreign nations did not include Russia in any meaningful way.
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Blind no Longer,
Theresa May just lost the PM election there, so certainly not as much leverage as it would have been.
Imo at this point it would be more important to expose what they have been up to over there, as well as here, so they can install mechanisms to prevent it from ever happening again, just like what we will be doing here hopefully.
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Chris.
Chris Steele.
I’ll have a chocolate milk. Shaken, not stirred.
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If the DoJ is confident in relying on the existing UK extradition law, then what’s stopping them applying to get Steele to the US on lying to the FBI or refusing a sup direction?
Try it today, boys, see how that works out.
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My guess, Steele’s solicitor will agree to allow his client to answer questions while in the UK in exchange for an immunity agreement. The alternative is having his barrister argue this in a series of prolonged court cases and a series of appeals.
I’m fine with that.
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Steele is small beer, but he just might have some upstream connections that lead to embarrassment for MI6, in which case forget about extradition entirely, the UK Courts will do what’s necessary to prevent it. A limited scope interview in the UK seems much more likely.
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I agree. Nobody cares about Steele. Give him immunity and let him answer questions while in the UK with his solicitor present.
An extradition would be a long difficult process. Even if granted by the Court, it could be blocked by the PM or Home Secretary. The extraction of Gary McKinnon was blocked in 2012 by order of Home Secretary Theresa May,
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Linnea,
Imo there is no way they would ever allow a former MI6 agent to be extradited to the US for questioning and possible incarceration anyway. He would be subjected to a British form of a clintonesque arkanicide event before that was allowed to happen.
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I think any immunity agreement should include a caveat that he agree to appear as a witness in trials of the real US traitors.
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If he’s here in our country take his passport and his shoes. If he isn’t, then go get his passport and shoes. No sense in letting him work for other countries too.
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The idiot, I mean steele, cooperated with mueller when asked to testify but won’t cooperate with Durbin! Hmmmm.
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Rendition of Christopher Steele to Gitmo is warranted.
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The only verification that any of the poop in the Dirty Dossier came from Russian sources is the say so of Christopher Steele. Why would I or anyone believe what Steele says? Just as likely he made most of it up from whole cloth, turned it into his handlers and collected the paycheck including that meant for the Russians.
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True.
Allegedly, he paid his Russian sources for information. Maybe he just billed for it and pocked the monies. Interestingly, the “Cohen in Prague” allegation may be from an illegal database search where the wrong Cohen was returned. That information would come from the “special project” contractors reporting to Brennon or possibly it was fed to FusionGPS who instructed Steele to include it in his “intelligence reports” and falsely claim it was sourced from a Russian informant.
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Hmm, I wonder if Britain will also refuse to Extradite former MI6 SPY CHRISTOPHER STEELE because he will…FINGER…just how much Britain’s GCHQ, MI6 & MI5 were aiding & abetting the Coup against Pres.Trump.
~Britain will Extradite Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange at the Drop-Of-The-Hat because they think it will make Pres.Trump look bad…BUT…will fight with all their might to NOT Extradite Steele because it will make them look BAD even though the U.S. & Britain has an Extradition Treaty in Place since 2007.~
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Why should he talk to anyone. Of course we can all cast all sorts of shade, contempt and hatred toward this guy. What did he do?
Came up with something that you would normally use to line a birdcage and got paid for it. It was opposition research that, if I’m not mistaken, a Anti-Trump Republican donor initiated and was then picked up by her and the DNC. What they did with it is the crime.
He didn’t force the entire US Intel apparatus, FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, ODNI, Intel assets from other countries, the MSM, and the previous occupant of the White House to do what they did.
He was probably approached to dig some stuff up. When he knew he couldn’t, he started cherry picking stories from the news(hasn’t it been established that the dossier info came from open sources), probably took some liberties when writing about it and did some embellishing and sold it to FusionGPS and Perkins Coi. And probably for a nice sum of money. And then laughed all the way to the bank. Shaking his head that those ignorant American’s will believe anything. IE…DJT hired hookers to pee in a bed that the previous President slept in…how in the world does that make a scintilla of sense? And people took that as Gospel. If DJT had thrown the bed off the balcony or ordered it replaced the moment he found out who had slept in it, that could be believable. Hookers peeing on it? NOPE>
Be mad at him all you want. I am. But I could care less about him. Its the folks that worked for all the Alphabet Agencies that need to be arrested, tried, convicted and punished. If that punishment involves a lonely prison cell for a very long time or a tree and rope, is to be determined at a later date.
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You are kinda downplaying how hard Steele worked to get it to the FBI & media. He actually had no idea the FBI was using it…..that’s why he kept pestering Kramer wanting to know if McCain had given the copy Kramer flew to London for post election to Comey
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The claim was the FBI did not use the dossier to compile the Carter Page FISA warrant application, but Undercover Huber on Twitter found that they directly copied and pasted from Steele’s dossier to the Page FISA warrant application. The incompetence just keeps coming home to roost.
Then there was Downer, Mifsud, and Halper, the three most inept spies the world has ever seen. I told Papadopoulos on Twitter that the FBI should stop claiming them as “assets” and move them over to liabilities instead.
At least we can get some laughs at their expense.
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Steele almost single highhandedly try to throw the US election in favor of Clinton. You think that’s ok? Who cares if he was paid to do it, or not. That’s like saying a hitman should not face justice for attempted murder, because someone paid him.
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He still needs to rat out his bosses. They ARE criminals, and aiding and abetting them is also a crime.
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Christopher Steele knows that there is no cure for Arkancide, should he come down with the disease. As we know, it is very infectious.
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Expect President Trump to have something to say to the Queen about that next week. And about keeping HER country.
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The biggest rats are alive and well right here in own backyard. If US justice isn’t able, willing or capable to prosecute them under existing US laws, Steele won’t matter, because we will be done for as a viable nation henceforth.
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