© Press AssociationChristopher Steele
This referral makes the first call for charges by any bi-partisan investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 election.
Christopher Steele is a British Citizen who who compiled the now infamous dossier that was the motivation for the start of an FBI Counter-Intelligence investigation into Trump Campaign that began in late 2016. Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign along with the DNC funded the creation of the dossier through a $12.2M payment through Clinton's personal lawyer Marc Elias and Private Intelligence firm Fusion GPS.
Prior to Steele's work for the Clinton Campaign on behalf of Fusion GPS, Steele made a lucrative career as an investigator, running his own firm Orbis Business Intelligence.
Now, with the recommendation of two senior senators that Steele be investigated by the DOJ, his lucrative career as a spy-for-hire hangs in the balance.
The main question that remains unanswered in this chronicle is whether or not Steele will be forthcoming with investigators, as they seek to gain information from him about his discussions with Russian intelligence agents as part of his work compiling the Trump Dossier. As Steele loses control of his own fate, it seems ever more likely that he will become cooperative with congressional investigators as well as the FBI.
For Hillary Clinton, Christopher Steele is quickly becoming a free radical that keeps her up at night. As she faces investigations of the Clinton Foundation and her mishandling of classified information, she faces off with a rogue spy.
To avoid indictments and the potential for jail time, Steele is likely to expose the events that led to his hiring by Hillary Clinton and his work with Russian intelligence agents during the compilation of the dossier, which are of particular interest for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Comment: If Steele does get hauled before investigators it would be music to our ears if he sung like a canary about Killary. But it's unclear whether the Justice Department will even take Grassley and Graham up on their recommendation, or if this will simply fall back into the memory hole. In the meantime it certainly has the left up in arms in order to defend 'Russiagate'.
The Atlantic is
reporting that this is just team Trump attacking political rivals, ignoring the obvious fact that the entire Russiagate fiasco has been exactly that - a way for Trump's political rivals to attack him. And, more importantly, as Alexander Mercouris
writes, 'The difficulty the Democrats and Fusion GPS face in dismissing the Senators' letter is that
neither Grassley nor Lindsey Graham are obvious Trump loyalists.'
Perhaps 'Russiagate' has served its purpose, and now it's time to tie up loose ends and move on with
Trump serving as the new 'Obama'. Time will tell.
Further reading:
Comment: If Steele does get hauled before investigators it would be music to our ears if he sung like a canary about Killary. But it's unclear whether the Justice Department will even take Grassley and Graham up on their recommendation, or if this will simply fall back into the memory hole. In the meantime it certainly has the left up in arms in order to defend 'Russiagate'.
The Atlantic is reporting that this is just team Trump attacking political rivals, ignoring the obvious fact that the entire Russiagate fiasco has been exactly that - a way for Trump's political rivals to attack him. And, more importantly, as Alexander Mercouris writes, 'The difficulty the Democrats and Fusion GPS face in dismissing the Senators' letter is that neither Grassley nor Lindsey Graham are obvious Trump loyalists.'
Perhaps 'Russiagate' has served its purpose, and now it's time to tie up loose ends and move on with Trump serving as the new 'Obama'. Time will tell.
Further reading: