First memo pre-FBI briefing. Steele has spoken to source A,B, D, E, F And G.
Luke Harding reports that “many” of Steele’s sources for the Ukraine/Russia reports he passed to the State Dept are same for Trump dossier. 🧐
Steele was working for Simpson on Manafort in early spring 2016. His Russian sources were good for first part of 2016. (After FBI was in the loop, his sources in Russia clammed up)
* Hardings reported this before and he didn’t answer my tweet asking if this was still accurate.
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If true Steele’s sources for the dossier are many of the same sources Steele was using for his reports to the State Dept.
And they dried up in July 2016 ish.
For a second put yourself in Steele’s shoes for a minute. He’s a British ex spy, working for free for the US State Dept and US FBI for many years. He’s then hired to research a US presidential candidate.
His sources are the same for both.
What does U.K. intel think? 👍👍 up
Sir Dearlove acknowledges the dossier.
The same Dearlove who left the Cambridge spy Institute he attended with Stefan Halper because it was to Kremliny. telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/1…
Put yourself in the US State Dept shoes. Nuland, Winer, whoever. Steele met with Nuland in mid July, after the FBI meeting. Her British ex spy was gathering intel on both Clinton and Trump. The FBI is now involved. Steele’s sources are about to get scrutinized.
Put yourself in Agent Gaetas shoes. His great foreign ex spy source for the *Trump Tower investigations* has collected intel on both US presidential candidates and the State Dept is involved. He tells FBI HQ, since as a foreign assistant legat he reports directly there.
Gaetas boss was Randall Coleman. International Operations was one part of his gig. He was over 5 Eyes LE Group, and was briefed on Weiners laaptop contents (IG report). He’s no longer with the FBI.
Randall Coleman might just be the One To Watch for the FBI. He was over the beginning of the Hillary email investigation, briefed on Weiners laptop, briefed on Gaetas meetings with Steele, over FBI Cyber and 5 Eyes.
Cyber oh Lordy (DNC, DCCC etc)
He supervised Strzok at beginning of email case.
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I think I found the target audience for the Russian analysis. I was wondering who they were writing for. In March 2016 Nellie Ohr was part of an email chain analyzing Russia’s movements. One of the participants was Robert Otto, the acting chief of the Russian desk at State Dept. His personal email was hacked (later released in 2017).
Whoever ELSE Ohr was communicating with had the subjects of her research while employed by Fusion GPS (hired by Glenn Simpson in fall 2015).
Whether the Russians hacked Otto first or pulled a string that led to them needing to see his personal emails, it looks like her research topics ended up in Russian intelligence analysis (pic 1) In March 2016.
This analysis created YUGE ripples within the USGOV. The “sensitive information”in July 2016 caused Brennan to brief the president a couple days after looking at what was intercepted (Pics 2 and 3).
We know that Steele was on board and collaborating with Simpson who was collaborating with Nellie and her research since mid June just on the “dossier”. Were the Russians just laughing their asses off making up stuff for these think tank analysts and State Dept chiefs on Nellie’s email chain to obsess over? Were they the target audience?? (Pic 4)
Is that why Brennans intel so closely matches the Steele dossier in time and content?
In preparation for a new FBI director being confirmed tomorrow and the potential for new information being released, I want to revisit some of the lingering questions I have about russiagate.
The veracity of the claim of a six agency task force set up in April 2016. bbc.com/news/world-us-…
Two unanswered questions if this is accurate.
1. Who at the WH was briefed on intel gained and what foreign policy decisions were impacted