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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVanity Fair Piece On Relationship Between Christopher Steele..
and Glenn Simpson... was imo very informative and will definitely help me with push back against Republican Bullshit.. It's rather long, but after reading, I now have a real understanding of what the memo might be all about which repubs. are planning to release any day now.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele
brucefan
(1,549 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)"as a bombastic president-elect continued to let loose with indignant tirades about fake news; as internal-security agents of the F.S.B., the main Russian espionage agency, were said to have burst into a meeting of intelligence officers, placed a bag over the head of the deputy director of its cyber-activities, and marched him off; as the body of a politically well-connected former F.S.B. general was reportedly found in his black LexusChristopher Steele had gone to ground."
There is a long trail of dead Russians around the world... most of them either current or former FSB agents AND diplomats. And they became dead or disappeared right after the "Dossier" went public in a big way.
This is important to remember. They likely DIED as a result of talking to Christopher Steele. And, if the dossier was fake info fed to Steele to muddy the waters... would there have been a reason to kill off all of these people?