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@15poundstogo 1) "The Weird Tales of Jonathan Winer" The Weekly Standard (2/10/18)

"Winer went back to work at State in 2013, after his old Capitol Hill boss, John Kerry, had become Secretary of State. But he didn’t lose track of his friend Steele—not at all.

@15poundstogo 2) "He shared, and shared, and shared Steele’s corporate intelligence work with the State Department’s Russia desk. 'Over the next two years, I shared more than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia experts at the State Department, who continued to find them useful.'

@15poundstogo 3) “'In late September, I spoke with an old friend, Sidney Blumenthal' (who) pulled out a dossier of his own: 'He showed me notes gathered by a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer, that alleged Russians had compromising information on Trump of a sexual and financial nature.'

@15poundstogo 4) "Winer seems not to have been at all astonished that two of his old friends—Steele and Blumenthal—themselves unacquainted, should each independently and of their own volition have presented him with the same bombshell material.

@15poundstogo 5) "He shared the Shearer memo with Steele, who in turn passed it along to the FBI. Do you think anyone bothered to mention to the Bureau, at the time, the ... circumstances and provenance of the notes, most notably that they had come from a source as compromised as Cody Shearer?

@15poundstogo 6) "Well, it never occurred to Winer, because he 'did not expect them to be shared with anyone in the U.S. government.'"

Except that this latest Kavalec email, thanking Winer for introducing her to Christopher Steele, proves that claim, in his WaPo OpEd, was a bald-faced lie.

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