Report: FBI Assessing Second Trump-Russia Dossier Written by Clinton Associate
Author close to Bill Clinton’s White House.
The Guardian has reported that the FBI has a second President Donald Trump-Russia dossier that allegedly corroborates some information in the Christopher Steele dossier.
One caveat: Cody Shearer, an activist close to failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s camp, authored this one.
Two dossiers, one funded by Clinton the other written by former Clinton associate, what a coincidence: FBI has second dossier on possible Trump-Russia collusion https://t.co/Qzvp46lOq7
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) January 30, 2018
From The Guardian:
Unlike Steele, Shearer does not have a background in espionage, and his memo was initially viewed with scepticism, not least because he had shared it with select media organisations before the election.
However, the Guardian has been told the FBI investigation is still assessing details in the ‘Shearer memo’ and is pursuing intriguing leads.
One source with knowledge of the inquiry said the fact the FBI was still working on it suggested investigators had taken an aspect of it seriously.
It raises the possibility that parts of the Steele dossier, which has been derided by Trump’s supporters, may have been corroborated by Shearer’s research, or could still be.
The Guardian stated that the FBI received this dossier back in October 2016 from none other than Steele, who received it from an American contact:
The Guardian was told Steele warned the FBI he could not vouch for the veracity of the Shearer memo, but that he was providing a copy because it corresponded with what he had separately heard from his own independent sources.
Among other things, both documents allege Donald Trump was compromised during a 2013 trip to Moscow that involved lewd acts in a five-star hotel.
The Shearer memo cites an unnamed source within Russia’s FSB, the state security service. The Guardian cannot verify any of the claims.
The publication also detailed the controversy that surrounds Shearer:
Shearer is a controversial figure in Washington. Conservative outlets have accused him of being part of a “hatchet man” and member of a “secret spy ring” and within Clinton’s orbit. There is no evidence that the Clinton campaign was aware of the Shearer memo.
But other people who know Shearer say he is not just a Democratic party hack and there is no evidence that his memo was ever sought by Clinton campaign officials.
Sources say that while he lacks the precision and polish of a seasoned former spy like Steele, Shearer has also been described as having a large network of sources around the world and the independent financial means to pursue leads.
This news comes a day after the House Intelligence Committee used an obscure rule to vote to release a memo penned by Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) that alleges the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) “over its use of the opposition research dossier on Donald Trump and Russia as part of the case to obtain a FISA warrant for former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.”
Trump has five days to decide to release it to the public or keep it hidden.
Until there is more information on this dossier it’s important to proceed with caution. Even if this dossier corroborates some of the Steele dossier, it could be a coincidence.
It also just looks like another opposition research project consider the links to the Clintons. Remember, the DNC and Clinton’s camp paid for the Steele dossier that published his dossier.
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Slick trick – so after the first dossier was written, they got someone to copy part of it and put it out as a ‘second” dossier, and then they used the copy as “proof” that there was “independent verification” of the first dossier. So that’s what counts as “corroboration” these days.
Only Hillbilly Hillary and her Evil Democrat Party Colluded with any Russians!
DUH!
It’s like those Russian Nesting Dolls, one Hillary/Democrat Party Lie within another Hillary/Democrat Party Lie within another Hillary/Democrat Party Lie …. and so on ad nauseam.
I prefer this description of Shearer.
‘Second Dossier Was Assembled by Notorious Democratic FakeNews Smear Merchant and Sidney Blumenthal Associate Cody Shearer’
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=373607
MUST SEE.
Former secret service agent and NYPD officer.
“Dan Bongino on FBI Corruption, and the Memo Ramifications.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=sQ4Aq9j4H7k
‘Representative Lee Zeldin Shreds Adam Schiff’s Disingenuous Press Conference – Special Session of the House…’ – January 29, 2018
“After representative Adam Schiff ran to the microphones to decry the lack of GOP support for releasing his ‘minority memo’, congressman Lee Zeldin shares the back-story. Adam Schiff wouldn’t even allow the intelligence committee to see Schiff’s ‘minority memo’, yet he was demanding they vote to declassify it. WATCH”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/29/representative-lee-zeldin-shreds-adam-schiffs-disingenuous-press-conference-special-session-of-the-house/
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=373599
“…the case brought against him was not only false, but it was constructed out of whole cloth deliberately by Leftists within the FBI and DoJ most likely at the behest, approval and even instigation of the Clintons and Obama.
“In fact, a new book has been released that shows McCabe set up the meeting that leaked to CNN and set up the “obstruction” narrative.
“In any case, the Democrats are now scrambling like a gaggle of filthy cockroaches when the lights come on in the kitchen to try and come up with their own narrative that deflects the damage of the FISA memo and smears Devin Nunes and the rest of the GOP. Not gonna fly, chumps.
“One thing that just crystallize who these people are is the way they speak about this country. John Leguizamo, known for his glittering theatrical performances in such timeless works of cinematic art as “The Pest” said “America is the best country ever stolen.” And there it is. They hate us and want to use human shields in the form of every minority and constituency group real or made-up to wrest control of this nation, destroy it and in the end us. THAT is what the immigration debate is really all about.”
IBIB.
“Only Hillbilly Hillary and her Evil Democrat Party Colluded with any Russians!”
Mueller should be investigating the only Russian Collusion that has been identified which is the collusion of the Clintons/DNC with the purpose of altering the outcome of the 2016 election and the activities explored by Mueller’s own team involving Manafort and the Two uber Democrat Panetta brothers prior to Trump ever running for POTUS.
Someone also needs to go over the Hillary Uranium Russia scandal. But who is going to do this?
Does anyone think that the Deep State FBI or DOJ are going to have any investigations of themselves that will result with an outcome other than statements of ‘mistakes were made’ and “we have promoted all those who were deemed careless”, I don’t.
You assume that Mueller’s function is to investigate something, the longer this goes on and the more crap that comes to light makes me think that Mueller’s job is to destroy as much evidence as he can find.
Bingo.
They used the second to corroborate the first.
And FBI was in on it.
Put McCabe & Comey in adjacent cells.
My bad, clicked thumbs down instead of reply. Actually I like your comment. The first guy lies and the second guy swears to it. Not to site administrator: REPLY is too close to “thumbs down”, at least for us old guys.
Heh, I know I never pay much attention to the thumbs up/thumbs down tags.
But it does seem evident that there’s someone who loves to troll through and give a thumbs down to almost every post he sees. Well, if that’s how he gets his jollies, whatever.
It’s the same way they get multiple unnamed sources for some of the drek they try to pass off as truth. It takes roughly the same amount of effort to write “unnamed source” as it does to write “Three unnamed sources” in the article, and it sounds better. Normally, they stop at three because more just sounds funky, and when you hit ten, you just sound desperate.
After all, the reporter has interviewed his turtle, his goldfish, and a lamp to get those three sources.
and the light bulb is the only that is bright (after you switch it on – LOL)
Can anybody submit a dossier to the FBI ? … or is it just Democrats and their contractors ?
So at some point in the past the FBI probably for a copy of this, looked st it, and thought nothing more if it.
However to the media they spin this as being under review by the FBI as if they were going yo do something with it.
And of course it probably “corroborates” the original dossier BECAUSE it’s merely copied parts of it (shared ancestry).
Of course the fact this ONLY surfaces now might just be a pointer to the media of its true purpose, to counter the soon to be revealed memo that will destroy the Democrats attempts to over throw the presidential election and install their preferred candidate.
Of course if we had a media that weren’t so utterly corrupted by their hatred of Trump and America this second dossier would be laughed out of the park! However liberals WANT Trump over thrown and they don’t care how they achieve as long as they achieve it!!
The Left seems to be just itching for an all out real deal civil war. I don’t think they understand just exactly what that can mean.
But it’s just like the insane Leftists: a “civil” war…..
Very interesting truth for thought….
“Executive Branch Now Has Custody of Intel Memo For Review Prior to Release…
With the executive holding the memo, opposing political talking-points will now shift their narrative and claim the President is undermining the DOJ and FBI with a pending release. Opposition does not want the memo released. It’s just pantomime politics.
The executive branch IS the DOJ and FBI; the President cannot, therefore, undermine himself. Media opposition have worked earnestly for two years to create a false illusion of the intelligence apparatus being separate from the executive branch, they’re not. President Trump is the Chief Executive over all the agencies; just like President Obama was accountable for James Comey (FBI) and Loretta Lynch (DOJ) previously…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/30/executive-branch-now-has-custody-of-intel-memo-for-review-prior-to-release/
It’s the Guardian. It’s agitprop.
One of Sidney Blumenthal’s sidekicks.
And um… someone please tell the FBI they have zero credibility as an investigative body at this point in time. Stand Down, keep your hands out of your pockets, step away from the computer. Thank you.
“Even if this dossier corroborates some of the Steele dossier, it could be a coincidence.”
More likely plagiarism. Heck, just put it through the photocopier a few dozen times. Then it’s proof! Look, corroborated twelve times! Now thirteen! Now fourteen!
LOL That’s it, plagiarism. After all I have a million un-named sources that collude, er, confirm that!
This is just embarrassing. FBI slobbering over another (or perhaps even the same) fictional “report” thin on sources, provenance, or evidence.
Whatever career FBI types are paid, it’s too much. This stuff wouldn’t fool an honest 12-year-old. A 6-year-old, maybe.
But it’ll fool a Democrat.
Heck it’ll even fool an Ever-Rumper!
The part that to me says that Sydney Blumenthal was behind a lot of this is the fact that the ludicrous Russian hooker “Pee pee gate” story is included in both of these, and Blumenthal is not only a vicious attack dog for the Clinton’s, he has always had an adolescent fixation with trying to pin luridly scatological stories on his opponents.
I think even the hard core FBI anti-Trumpers are embarrassed at that part being included, because it automatically makes the entire dossier look idiotic.
They have confirmation bias.
This is what we know: Obama spied, Clinton colluded, and the DNC axis denied the nomination to the Jew, with the JournoLists tumbling after.
What we don’t know is if the coup in Kiev is related to Obama’s social justice adventures (e.g. elective regime change, sodomy sessions, torture, trail of tears) throughout Africa and the Middle East, and if Russia’s intervention in Syria and Ukraine which mitigated catastrophic anthropogenic immigration reform (CAIR) was the immediate cause for retributive change. Well, that, and redistributive change a la Serbia, Libya, South Africa, Rhodesia, etc.
FYI
Saudi Corruption Purge Captures $106 Billion During Asset Forfeiture – Qatar Delegation Arrives in DC….Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) initiated a massive anti-corruption operation last year. Today, just as a Qatari delegation arrives in DC and concedes to the terms of the alliance, Reuters is reporting the resulting Saudi asset seizures total more than $106 billion.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/30/saudi-corruption-purge-captures-106-billion-during-asset-forfeiture-qatar-delegation-arrives-in-dc/
So today’s FBI uses political opposition research as the basis of a criminal investigation?
Argh! Just listening to this being reported in C4 here in the UK. No mention of the ties the of the people involved in producing the dossier…just disinformation after disinformation for no other reason than to feed the narrative that Russia owns Trump!!!!
Fuck I hope Trump lights up the Democrats in his speech this evening!!!
So, the Clintons, through their wholly owned subsidiary pay Fusion GPS to produce “opposition research” on Trump. Fusion employs Steele, to “compile” a dossier on Trump and Russian government connections. Steele includes a very weird anecdote about Trump hiring prostitutes to urinate on a bed which was given him by an unnamed FSB contact. Shearer allegedly produces a corresponding “dossier” which details the same unbelievable incident, from an unnamed FSB contact. So, there are three possibilities here. The first is that this incident is true, even though Trump was not in Moscow at the time of the alleged incident. The second is that this is disinformation from the Russian FSB and these dolts ran with it. The third is that this information never happened and was made up of whole cloth by someone else, possible Fusion GPS and Steele and Shearer are simply fronting for that company.
Rule #1) Spies lie.
Rule #2) Russian spies are not anyone’s friends, no matter how much you pay them.
Rule #3) Unless an incident is caught on video or is attested to by a station wagon load of nuns, err on the side of caution and assume it did not occur.
Until I see the video, or hear from Sister Teresa and her friends, I have to conclude that this whole narrative has been pretty well shown to be invention, not fact.
Trump has a great economy and a fairly quiet world. He is going to be sweetness and light. The memo will have all the negatives.
I still think he will find some way to push his DACA framework.
Someone read Schiffty’s memo and said it read like an eighth grader. I guess that is good ,he is writing 2 grades levels up .
Maybe this one could be called the Schiffty dossier?! I am guessing he wrote it.
Citogenesis
Anyone recall the FBI ever seriously investigating opposition research put together by Republicans to target their Democrat political opponents?
Me neither.
Wait a second. Isn’t a “dossier” just a fancy name for a folder with papers in it? (Perhaps it’s faux-leather bound, you know, something you can pick up at Staples or Office Depot.) Saying that “I have a dossier on Trump” sounds way cooler than “I have a manilla folder into which I put some sheets of paper where I wrote a bunch of stuff about Trump, most of which I made up, based on a bunch of unsourced crap I said is from mysterious unidentified Russians.”
When Fusion GPS calls it a “dossier” rather than a file folder with some papers in it, does that mean they can charge a lot more money to the DNC for fabricating it?
So, let me get this straight: the claims that Trump was compromised on a 2013 trip to Russia, originate from an unidentified Russian FSB agent, i.e., (assuming such a person even exists), a Russian intelligence agent or spy. Who Steele refuses to identify (which leads me to believe it’s completely fabricated by Steele.) So, a Russian spy feeds Steele disinformation about Trump, Steele knows it’s b.s., but it’s perfect for what his client wants–destructive dirt/gossip about Trump. Steele never expected to be exposed, Simpson and Fusion never expected to be exposed, DNC never expected to be exposed as the source of this propaganda. They tried feeding it to the media which wasn’t buying it (until Buzzfeed released it). That didn’t work so Steele tried feeding it to McCain, the FBI, and anyone else he could, with the intent it would “filter” out as rumor, gossip and innuendo about Trump, but that Steele would never be IDed as the source, and certainly Fusion and the DNC wouldn’t. But it sort of backfired didn’t it? It does sound like a classic Russian disinformation campaign against Trump–assuming the Russians were even involved, with Steele and Fusion as willing dupes.
“…there is no evidence that his memo was ever sought by Clinton campaign officials.”
So there’s no evidence that a Democrat/Clinton attack dog was ordered/asked to produce this and that is supposed to verify his, and his memo’s, bona fides? Riiiigght. As someone else pointed out, it is the Guardian.