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[[File:Steele dossier fingerprint cartoon 2017.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Obama administration tried to convince the American people through US intelligence agencies and the mainstream media that Vladimir Putin had colluded with the Trump campaign to elect Donald Trump, using the ''Steele dossier'' as evidence. The falsified document was bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<br>''Illustration on the Steele Dossier by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times''<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/7/hillary-clinton-democrats-deluded-themselves/ </ref>]]

[[File:Steele dossier fingerprint cartoon 2017.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Obama administration tried to convince the American people through US intelligence agencies and the mainstream media that Vladimir Putin had colluded with the Trump campaign to elect Donald Trump, using the ''Steele dossier'' as evidence. The falsified document was bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<br>''Illustration on the Steele Dossier by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times''<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/7/hillary-clinton-democrats-deluded-themselves/ </ref>]]

The '''Steele dossier''', sometimes referred to as the '''Clinton-Steele dossier''' is a discredited political work originally put together as opposition research by the Clinton campaign and Democratic party, which was funneled to the Obama FBI and used to justify illegal surveillance on candidate and President [[Donald Trump]].<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454709/steele-dossier-source-fisa-warrant-against-trump-campaign Was the Steele Dossier Used to Obtain a FISA Warrant Against Trump’s Campaign?], [[National Review Online]]</ref>

The '''Steele dossier''', sometimes referred to as the '''Clinton-Steele dossier''' is a discredited political work originally put together as opposition research by the Clinton campaign and Democratic party, which was funneled to the Obama FBI and used to justify illegal surveillance on candidate and President [[Donald Trump]].<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/article/454709/steele-dossier-source-fisa-warrant-against-trump-campaign Was the Steele Dossier Used to Obtain a FISA Warrant Against Trump’s Campaign?], [[National Review Online]]</ref>

On January 10, 2016, ten days before Trump's inauguration, Obama [[DNI]] [[James Clapper]] leaked the phony ''Steele dossier'' to [[CNN]] and [[BuzzFeed]] who then jointly made it available to the public. The dossier alleges [[Russian collusion hoax|Russian collusion with the Trump campaign]]. [[Barack Obama]] approved declassification and widespread dissemination of the dossier's smears and fake allegations, and violation of the [[Fourth Amendment]] rights of American citizens.

On January 10, 2016, ten days before Trump's inauguration, Obama [[DNI]] [[James Clapper]] leaked the phony ''Steele dossier'' to [[CNN]] and [[BuzzFeed]] who then jointly made it available to the public. The dossier alleges [[Russian collusion hoax|Russian collusion with the Trump campaign]]. [[Barack Obama]] approved declassification and widespread dissemination of the dossier's smears and fake allegations, and violation of the [[Fourth Amendment]] rights of American citizens.

==Timeline==

==Timeline==

In August 2016 Christopher Steele went to Sir Andrew Wood to ask him to act as a go-between to reach Sen. [[John McCain]], to try to give his fake dossier credibility.<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/11/inside-trump-dossier-handoff-mccains-go-between-speaks-out.html</ref>

In August 2016 Christopher Steele went to Sir Andrew Wood to ask him to act as a go-between to reach Sen. [[John McCain]], to try to give his fake dossier credibility.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/11/inside-trump-dossier-handoff-mccains-go-between-speaks-out.html</ref>

Throughout July, August and September 2016 [[FusionGPS]] paid [[journalist]]s from the ''[[New York Times]]'', [[ABC News]], Ken Dilanian of [[NBC News]], David Corn of ''Mother Jones'', Michael Isikoff of Yahoo! News and others to listen to Christopher Steele and shop the ''Steele dossier'' narrative for mainstream publication. Court papers confirm payments.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fusion-gps-paid-journalists-court-papers-confirm/article/2641454</ref>

Throughout July, August and September 2016 [[FusionGPS]] paid [[journalist]]s from the ''[[New York Times]]'', [[ABC News]], Ken Dilanian of [[NBC News]], David Corn of ''Mother Jones'', Michael Isikoff of Yahoo! News and others to listen to Christopher Steele and shop the ''Steele dossier'' narrative for mainstream publication. Court papers confirm payments.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fusion-gps-paid-journalists-court-papers-confirm/article/2641454</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>https://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>

Rep. Jim Jordan said {{quotebox|"We know, for a fact, the Clinton campaign paid Russians to influence the election...Most of Mueller’s team is anti-Trump. We know that. What concerns me is the intent to carry out a plan to disrupt the election. Because as Mr. Strzok said, we can’t afford to leave this in we the people’s hands....I’m convinced now the FBI actively seeking with intent, actively trying to stop Donald Trump from being president of the United States. Everything points to the fact that there was an orchestrated plan to try to prevent Donald Trump from being the next president of the United States."<ref>https://www.toddstarnes.com/show/rep-jim-jordan-im-convinced-fbi-tried-stop-trump-president/</ref>}}  

Rep. Jim Jordan said {{quotebox|"We know, for a fact, the Clinton campaign paid Russians to influence the election...Most of Mueller’s team is anti-Trump. We know that. What concerns me is the intent to carry out a plan to disrupt the election. Because as Mr. Strzok said, we can’t afford to leave this in we the people’s hands....I’m convinced now the FBI actively seeking with intent, actively trying to stop Donald Trump from being president of the United States. Everything points to the fact that there was an orchestrated plan to try to prevent Donald Trump from being the next president of the United States."<ref>https://www.toddstarnes.com/show/rep-jim-jordan-im-convinced-fbi-tried-stop-trump-president/</ref>}}  

==The "second" Steele dossier==

==The "second" Steele dossier==

[[Sidney Blumenthal]] is one of Hillary Clinton's closest advisors. It was Blumenthal who spread the smear on [[Monica Lewinsky]] that she was stalking President [[Bill Clinton]], a smear dutifully repeated by mainstream media sources.<ref>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/1999/05/christopher-hitchens-testifies-monica-lewinsky</ref> [[Cody Shearer]] is a longtime Clinton [[dirty tricks]]ter. It was Shearer who was identified by [[MSNBC]]'s [[Chris Matthews]] as the "mysterious stranger" who threatened Kathleen Willey and her children before testifying on behalf of [[Paula Jones]] in her sexual harassment suit against Bill Clinton.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Target-Caught-Crosshairs-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0974670162 Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, World Ahead Publishing, Nov 6, 2007  ISBN 978-0974670164 ISBN 0974670162</ref>  

[[Sidney Blumenthal]] is one of Hillary Clinton's closest advisors. It was Blumenthal who spread the smear on [[Monica Lewinsky]] that she was stalking President [[Bill Clinton]], a smear dutifully repeated by mainstream media sources.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1999/05/christopher-hitchens-testifies-monica-lewinsky</ref> [[Cody Shearer]] is a longtime Clinton [[dirty tricks]]ter. It was Shearer who was identified by [[MSNBC]]'s [[Chris Matthews]] as the "mysterious stranger" who threatened Kathleen Willey and her children before testifying on behalf of [[Paula Jones]] in her sexual harassment suit against Bill Clinton.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Target-Caught-Crosshairs-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0974670162 Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, World Ahead Publishing, Nov 6, 2007  ISBN 978-0974670164 ISBN 0974670162</ref>  

Throughout the [[2016 presidential election]] Shearer was tasked by the Clinton machine to dig up dirt on [[Donald Trump]]. Shearer authored a report and gave it to 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 in turn passed it along to the FBI with his dossier.<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.

Throughout the [[2016 presidential election]] Shearer was tasked by the Clinton machine to dig up dirt on [[Donald Trump]]. Shearer authored a report and gave it to 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 in turn passed it along to the FBI with his dossier.<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>

==Possible UK connection==

==Possible UK connection==