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Victoria Nuland Tells All on Steele Dossier ... Not realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…

Former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has repeatedly downplayed her role in the spread of Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier.

Long-awaited evidence emerged last week showing Nuland was more involved in the dossier than she has let on – and in particular, more than she admitted under oath before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

At a June 2018 hearing, Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr asked Nuland what she knew about an October 2016 briefing Steele had given at the State Department and whether she had any role in it.

“I did not,” Nuland responded. “I actively chose not to be part of that briefing.”

In February of last year, she told CBS’s “Face the Nation” that in 2016, Steele “passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was, this is not in our purview” but rather a matter for the FBI.

Nuland told much the same story in a February 2018 interview with Politico magazine. Nuland said that when she had heard about the dossier in the summer of 2016, she wanted nothing to do with it:

“This is about U.S. politics, and not the work of — not the business of the State Department, and certainly not the business of a career employee who is subject to the Hatch Act, which requires that you stay out of politics.”

So,” Nuland said, “my advice to those who were interfacing with [Christopher Steele] was that he should get this information to the FBI, and that they could evaluate whether they thought it was credible.”

But we now know Nuland did not take her own advice.

For all her talk of staying away from partisan political propaganda – of being a career federal employee subject to the Hatch Act – Nuland was having convos with the opposition researcher on the Clinton campaign’s payroll.

How many times did Nuland listen to Simpson pitch Steele’s material? What did she do with the spurious information? Who were the “others” Bruce Ohr said Nuland was talking to about the dossier?

Senator Burr’s Intel committee could recall the witness to give her a chance to amend or correct her testimony, since its investigation into the Russia affair is not yet finished.

Though Simpson has long been recognized as a central player in Russiagate, there is still much to learn about his work as procurer, paymaster, and promoter of conspiracy theories. The Ohr 302s are mostly redacted, the content hidden for now.

At some point that material will be disclosed, and when it is, the public will learn even more about how Simpson – with the help of powerful government officials such as Victoria Nuland and Bruce Ohr – helped to catalyze a national crisis.