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Shearer authored a report and gave it to [[Sidney Blumenthal]], who gave it to [[State Department]] official [[Jonathan Winer]],<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/nunes-dossier-deux/552389/ </ref> who then gave it to [[Christopher Steele]], who passed it on to the FBI.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/30/christopher-steele-gave-fbi-a-2nd-dossier-from-notorious-clinton-hatchet-man/ </ref> The document is dated October 19, 2016 and was not included in [[BuzzFeed]]'s January 10, 2017 release of the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. The document is said to contain allegations of Trump's personal sexual and financial affairs.

Shearer authored a report and gave it to [[Sidney Blumenthal]], who gave it to [[State Department]] official [[Jonathan Winer]],<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/nunes-dossier-deux/552389/ </ref> who then gave it to [[Christopher Steele]], who passed it on to the FBI.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/30/christopher-steele-gave-fbi-a-2nd-dossier-from-notorious-clinton-hatchet-man/ </ref> The document is dated October 19, 2016 and was not included in [[BuzzFeed]]'s January 10, 2017 release of the ''[[Steele dossier]]''. The document is said to contain allegations of Trump's personal sexual and financial affairs.

By early 2017 when the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' was exposed as a fraud and no [[Russian collusion]] was found, ''The Guardian'' reported that the [[FBI]] was examining a "second ''Steele dossier''"<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/30/trump-russia-collusion-fbi-cody-shearer-memo </ref> - known now as the ''Shearer dossier''. Congressional investigators began looking at how Clinton operatives funneled opposition research to the State Department which made their way into FBI investigative files.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/referral-suggests-clinton-friends-feeding-british-spy-information/ </ref> At this same time stories about a porn actress who claimed to have had an affair with Trump, was paid off, and like Kathleen Willey, claimed she and her child were threatened by a "mysterious stranger" to keep silent appeared in the [[mainstream media]].<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-other-secret-dossier/article/2011477 </ref>

By early 2017 when the ''Clinton-Steele dossier'' was exposed as a fraud and no [[Russian collusion]] was found, ''The Guardian'' reported that the [[FBI]] was examining a "second ''Steele dossier''"<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/30/trump-russia-collusion-fbi-cody-shearer-memo </ref> - known now as the ''Shearer dossier''. Congressional investigators began looking at how Clinton operatives funneled opposition research to the State Department which made their way into FBI investigative files.<ref>https://saraacarter.com/referral-suggests-clinton-friends-feeding-british-spy-information/ </ref> At this same time stories about a porn actress who claimed to have had an affair with Trump, was paid off, and like Kathleen Willey, claimed she and her child were threatened by a "mysterious stranger" to keep silent appeared in the [[mainstream media]].<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-other-secret-dossier/article/2011477 </ref>

==See also==

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