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On October 31, 2016 ''[[New York Times]]'' published a story with the headline, ''Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link To Russia;''<ref>later FBI Director. James Comey, the name entrusted to investigate government leaks, admits to being an anonymous source for the ''New York Times''.

On October 31, 2016 ''[[New York Times]]'' published a story with the headline, ''Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link To Russia;''<ref>later FBI Director. James Comey, the name entrusted to investigate government leaks, admits to being an anonymous source for the ''New York Times''.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html</ref> The Clinton campaign fell into a tailspin as the FBI reopened the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Clinton email investigation]] over reports classified emails were going on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s computer. The same day the ''Times'' article appeared DNC operative David Corn of ''Mother Jones'' magazine reported Steele’s [[fake news]] allegations under the headline,<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571705/posts</ref> ''A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump: Has the bureau investigated this material?''.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html</ref> The Clinton campaign fell into a tailspin as the FBI reopened the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal|Clinton email investigation]] over reports classified emails were going on [[Anthony Weiner]]'s computer. The same day the ''Times'' article appeared DNC operative David Corn of ''Mother Jones'' magazine reported Steele's [[fake news]] allegations under the headline,<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571705/posts</ref> ''A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump: Has the bureau investigated this material?''.

January 10, 2017 Obama and the CIA leaked the phony ''Steele dossier'' to [[CNN]] & BuzzFeed who jointly made it available to the public. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, who with the DNC paid for the dossier, secretly met with Simpson.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/politics/john-tony-podesta-mueller-russia-investigation.html?mtrref=t.co</ref> The dossier alleges Russian [[collusion]] with the Trump campaign. Steele personally was paid $168,000 to write the phony dossier.

January 10, 2017 Obama and the CIA leaked the phony ''Steele dossier'' to [[CNN]] & BuzzFeed who jointly made it available to the public. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, who with the DNC paid for the dossier, secretly met with Simpson.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/politics/john-tony-podesta-mueller-russia-investigation.html?mtrref=t.co</ref> The dossier alleges Russian [[collusion]] with the Trump campaign. Steele personally was paid $168,000 to write the phony dossier.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5056421/Hillary-Clinton-talks-buy-SECOND-dossier-Trump.html</ref>

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5056421/Hillary-Clinton-talks-buy-SECOND-dossier-Trump.html</ref>

By December outrage of the Obama FBI abuses was omnipresent; in seven hours of testimony before House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe made statements that contradicted evidence, and was unable to provide any substantive examples of verified allegations in the ''Steele dossier''. When pushed for examples of what was verified in the anti-Trump dossier, McCabe was only able to cite the fact that Trump campaign advisor Carter Page traveled to Moscow — McCabe could not verify anything about the meetings that Page supposedly had. McCabe claimed he could not recall — despite documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing the fact of his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/24938/report-mccabe-contradicts-himself-testimony-unable-ryan-saavedra</ref><ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/25/fbi-says-russia-dossiers-collusion-charges-unsubst/</ref>

By December outrage of the Obama FBI abuses was omnipresent; in seven hours of testimony before House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) Dep. Dir. Andrew McCabe made statements that contradicted evidence, and was unable to provide any substantive examples of verified allegations in the ''Steele dossier''. When pushed for examples of what was verified in the anti-Trump dossier, McCabe was only able to cite the fact that Trump campaign advisor Carter Page traveled to Moscow — McCabe could not verify anything about the meetings that Page supposedly had. McCabe claimed he could not recall — despite documents with McCabe's own signature on them establishing the fact of his knowledge of the dossier's financing and provenance.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/24938/report-mccabe-contradicts-himself-testimony-unable-ryan-saavedra</ref><ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/25/fbi-says-russia-dossiers-collusion-charges-unsubst/</ref>

[[James A. Baker (Department of Justice attorney)|FBI Chief Counselor James Baker]] was fired two hours after McCabe's testimony.<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-22/fbi-fires-suspected-leaker-and-comey-ally-james-baker</ref> Associate Dep. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr withheld from his boss, [[Rod Rosenstein]], his secret meetings with Steele and Simpson and the fact his wife [[Nellie Ohr]] helped author the phony dossier.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/20/mccabe-draws-blank-on-democrats-funding-trump-dossier-new-subpoenas-planned.html</ref> Ohr was demoted, and there were calls for McCabe's firing.<ref>https://www.populistwire.com/politics/top-republican-senator-grassely-wants-mcgabe-replaced-after-fbi-trail-of-corruption-comes-to-fruition/</ref> The House Committees began investigating possible criminal activity among Obama holdovers in DOJ & FBI.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/house-republicans-quietly-investigate-doj-fbi-310121?lo=ap_f1</ref>

[[James A. Baker (Department of Justice attorney)|FBI Chief Counselor James Baker]] was fired two hours after McCabe's testimony.<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-22/fbi-fires-suspected-leaker-and-comey-ally-james-baker</ref> Associate Dep. Attn. Gen. Bruce Ohr withheld from his boss, [[Rod Rosenstein]], his secret meetings with Steele and Simpson and the fact his wife [[Nellie Ohr]] helped author the phony dossier.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/20/mccabe-draws-blank-on-democrats-funding-trump-dossier-new-subpoenas-planned.html</ref> Ohr was demoted, and there were calls for McCabe's firing.<ref>https://www.populistwire.com/politics/top-republican-senator-grassely-wants-mcgabe-replaced-after-fbi-trail-of-corruption-comes-to-fruition/</ref> The House Committees began investigating possible criminal activity among Obama holdovers in DOJ & FBI.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/20/house-republicans-quietly-investigate-doj-fbi-310121?lo=ap_f1</ref>

Paul Roderick Gregory wrote in Forbes: "As someone who has worked for more than a decade with the microfilm collection of Soviet documents in the Hoover Institution Archives, I can say that the dossier itself was compiled by a Russian, whose command of English is far from perfect and who follows the KGB (now FSB) practice of writing intelligence reports, in particular the practice of capitalizing all names for easy reference".<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/01/13/the-trump-dossier-is-false-news-and-heres-why/#432bbe246867</ref>

Paul Roderick Gregory wrote in Forbes: "As someone who has worked for more than a decade with the microfilm collection of Soviet documents in the Hoover Institution Archives, I can say that the dossier itself was compiled by a Russian, whose command of English is far from perfect and who follows the KGB (now FSB) practice of writing intelligence reports, in particular the practice of capitalizing all names for easy reference".<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2017/01/13/the-trump-dossier-is-false-news-and-heres-why/#432bbe246867</ref>

Russian Sergei Skripal, who survived an [[Novichok|assassination attempt]] in [[Salisbury]], England in March 2018, "almost certainly has links to Christopher Steele", according to Business Insider.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/sergei-skripal-had-links-to-russia-expert-christopher-steele-2018-3?r=UK</ref>  Writer Rob Slane has stated: "Now, we know that there is a link between the apparent author of the Trump Dossier, Christopher Steele and Mr Skripal’s [[MI6]] recruiter and handler, Pablo Miller. And we know that Miller and Skripal met regularly. Not only this, but we also know that there is a direct link between Steele and Skripal dating back to the late 1990s, early 2000s.<ref>https://www.theblogmire.com/joining-some-dots-on-the-skripal-case-part-4-the-dodgy-dossier/</ref>

Russian Sergei Skripal, who survived an [[Novichok|assassination attempt]] in [[Salisbury]], England in March 2018, "almost certainly has links to Christopher Steele", according to Business Insider.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/sergei-skripal-had-links-to-russia-expert-christopher-steele-2018-3?r=UK</ref>  Writer Rob Slane has stated: "Now, we know that there is a link between the apparent author of the Trump Dossier, Christopher Steele and Mr Skripal's [[MI6]] recruiter and handler, Pablo Miller. And we know that Miller and Skripal met regularly. Not only this, but we also know that there is a direct link between Steele and Skripal dating back to the late 1990s, early 2000s.<ref>https://www.theblogmire.com/joining-some-dots-on-the-skripal-case-part-4-the-dodgy-dossier/</ref>

Although the Steele dossier is discredited in the United States, some newspapers in the United Kingdom still appear to believe that it is genuine and that the evidence against it is Russian disinformation.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/20/kremlin-accused-laying-false-trail-linking-sergei-skripal-ex/</ref>

Although the Steele dossier is discredited in the United States, some newspapers in the United Kingdom still appear to believe that it is genuine and that the evidence against it is Russian disinformation.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/20/kremlin-accused-laying-false-trail-linking-sergei-skripal-ex/</ref>