The Steele dossier So where does this leave the Steele dossier?
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Lloyd Bentsen, we've read the second dossier, and it's no Steele dossier.
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JARRETT: It was the dossier, the fictitious dossier that triggered the hoax.
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Was Putin talking about a dossier or was this a reference to The Dossier?
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What matters isn't who funded the dossier—it's the validity of the dossier itself.
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A portion of the dossier, the so-called dossier, that related to his conduct.
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I mean -- and basically -- and this dossier, why do we call it a dossier anyway?
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Trump denied the dossier in its entirety, dubbing it the "Fake News Dossier" in a tweet.
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Michael Isikoff was the first to report Dossier allegations and now seriously doubts the Dossier claims.
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We now know that Brennan had detailed knowledge of the (phony) Dossier...he knows about the Dossier, he denies knowledge of the Dossier, he briefs the Gang of 8 on the Hill about the Dossier, which.... [0801 EDT] - ...they then used to start an investigation about Trump.
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Not only the dossier but generally the targeting of Donald Trump which began even before the dossier was used by the Justice Department and the FBI, dossier created by the Clinton campaign.
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I mean, this whole dossier, I&aposm glad you brought up this dossier because I want to know what evidence came from the dossier which now we know is a completely fabricated piece of nothing.
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The Dossier McCain also explains in detail being approached in 2016 with the now famous dossier about President Donald Trump.
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Dossier subject of controversy Trump has vehemently denied the allegations in the dossier since it was made public in January.
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It&aposs the dossier paid by Hillary Clinton and a story leaked to Michael Isikoff that is based on the dossier.
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BAIER: When -- the Steele dossier comes out sometime early July, when did you personally learn about the memos and the dossier.
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"Just to sum up, this is almost like you have people defending the dirty dossier with their own dirty dossier," Nunes said.
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Gubarev is suing BuzzFeed News for libel for publishing the dossier, saying the dossier contains false information about him and his business.
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But he thought that Trump needed to know about the dossier, even if the allegations were false, for two reasons: it could prove "impactful" if the dossier became public, and the dossier could be used as leverage over the President-elect.
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Tucker: Claims of the Steele dossier are completely absurd Tucker: Ask yourself this: Who would believe the Steele dossier on Trump and Russia?
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The FBI was able to match some communications that the dossier described as happening between people described and on the dates the dossier described.
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So a lot of people had their hands on the Steele Dossier including many people in the media who knew about the Steele Dossier.
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Without the Steele dossier, McCabe said, FBI and DoJ could never have gotten the FISA warrant; indeed, an earlier effort without the dossier, failed.
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HANNITY: Wait a minute, but also we know that this whole -- this whole phony -- by the way, Robert Mueller, Russia dossier, Russian dossier, Russian lies.
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While the dossier was a factor in the Page warrant application, it remains unclear how large a role the dossier played, given all the redactions.
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While CNN reported that intelligence officials were looking into the dossier, the network had not published the contents of the memos that composed the dossier.
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The FBI hunted down Steele's primary source and other dossier details The Mueller report was conspicuously silent on some efforts to verify the Steele dossier.
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While the dossier was a factor in the Page warrant application, it remains unclear how large a role the dossier played, given all the redactions.
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ZAC PETKANAS, FORMER SENIOR ADVISOR FOR THE DNC: Well, I mean, look -- I mean, whether it&aposs the Republicans who paid for the dossier, whether it&aposs the Democrats who paid for the dossier, or whether it was big bird who paid for the dossier, what matters is the content of the dossier and the leads in which reporters and investigators are able to follow or not.
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Steele's dossier contained explosive allegations which the Mueller investigation didn't bear out, so Republicans have been arguing that US intelligence inappropriately relied on this "phony" dossier.
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Several of the Trump associates named in the dossier have disputed allegations made about them in the dossier, including Page and Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
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The FBI's knowledge of Page's suspicious activities long predated receipt of the Steele dossier, and Page continued to be monitored long after receipt of the dossier.
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He's also twisting the facts about the Steele dossier, and is creating a false equivalency between his team's contacts with Russians and Clinton's ties to the dossier.
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The Clinton campaign was also accused of violations in hiding millions paid for the controversial Steele dossier as "legal services" while denying the funding of the dossier.
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He met with Christopher Steele, the author of the controversial dossier, and Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS and who contracted with Steele to write the dossier.
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Steele's primary source on the dossier told the FBI that Steele "misstated or exaggerated" his or her statements in the dossier, according to the inspector general's report.
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"To the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the FISA process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower," Gowdy said.
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Revisiting the dossier CNN revisited the dossier earlier this year and analyzed the veracity of some of the claims, two years after it first came into public view.
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Glenn Simpson, whose opposition research firm Fusion GPS commissioned the dossier, was questioned in a closed door hearing on Tuesday about the funding and sources behind the dossier.
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JARRETT: I dug deep into the interrogatories and the libel lawsuits against the author of the dossier, and he basically admits that his own dossier is a dubious credibility.
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He peppered Comey with questions about an unverified dossier compiled by a former MI6 agent whom the bureau reportedly considered paying if he were able to substantiate the dossier.
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"The dossier has proven to be a bunch of garbage," he added, referencing the so-called "Steele Dossier" that was used in part to acquire the surveillance warrant. Rep.
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So to the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower.
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On Friday, an associate said Mr. Singer had not been aware of the dossier or Mr. Steele's involvement in Fusion GPS's research until January, when BuzzFeed published the dossier.
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When the Steele Dossier became public, the committee began investigating the dossier and its claims as part of our ongoing investigation into Russia's state-sponsored meddling into American politics.
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News article in the first FISA application in an effort to show additional corroboration of the Steele dossier — even though the dossier information was the source of the Yahoo!
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So they paid for a shady dossier, got an independent counsel out of it, and now they&aposre getting indictments from that independent counsel that are unrelated to the dossier.
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Michael Cohen dropped lawsuits over dossier Trump's personal lawyer Cohen dropped defamation lawsuits late Wednesday against Fusion GPS and BuzzFeed regarding the production and publication of the infamous Russia dossier.
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During the transition, then-FBI Director James Comey briefed the president-elect on allegations in an unverified dossier claiming a Trump-Russia conspiracy — and BuzzFeed News then published that dossier.
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Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the controversial dossier linking Trump to Russia, interviewed with the Senate Judiciary Committee about the dossier last year.
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She dismissed the contents of the dossier as "absolute nonsense" to the AP. Some of the claims in the dossier have been verified, while other, more salacious claims have not.
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They published a dossier, the infamous dossier, and what I was curious about was sort of what the reaction was like among BuzzFeed's advertisers, investors, people who are backing the company.
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" And, finally, bigkr88's ultimate suggestion: "Fusion GPS working with the Russian government to manufacture the pissgate dossier" as well as "the pissgate dossier and how it was spread in general.
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Page says he is pursuing legal action against what he calls the "dodgy dossier" (also known as the Steele dossier) that led U.S. officials to surveil him under a FISA warrant.
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Check the facts: Background on the U.S.-Russia Uranium deal ; The reporters behind the Trump/Russia dossier ; Clinton campaign, DNC backed research for Trump-Russia dossier ; Where Mueller's Russia probe stands
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He focused primarily on the allegations contained in the dossier — which he repeatedly referred to as "the dodgy dossier" — and his claim that he was the subject of illegal government surveillance.
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Archbishop Scicluna subsequently explained that Benedict, previously John Paul's chief doctrinal watchdog, had undergone a conversion on the issue as he sat at his desk reading horrific dossier after horrific dossier.
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What about the dossier itself -- does it seem credible?
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" The memos came to be known as "the dossier.
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" Trump has called the dossier "fake" and "made up.
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Before BuzzFeed published the dossier, the conversation that we were having, and CNN was leading on the reporting, was that four senior intelligence officers or officials were so concerned that they had briefed both the president and president-elect on the existence of this dossier and what they were doing in response to this dossier.
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The reference to "Fake Dossier" is to the infamous Steele dossier, a list of allegations about the Trump campaign's links to Russia put together last summer by retired British spy Christopher Steele.
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Simpson says dossier sources weren't killed Since the election, there have been a series of questionable Russian deaths that some Russia watchers and conspiracy theorists have speculated were tied to the dossier.
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Despite warnings about the credibility of Steele and red flags over the unreliability of the dossier, Horowitz found that "FBI leadership" used the dossier to justify its application for a FISA warrant.
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On January 10, 2017 — 10 days before Donald Trump's inauguration — CNN reported that Trump had been briefed on the claims of the Steele dossier, and BuzzFeed News subsequently published the dossier itself.
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On Tuesday, CNN reported that Trump had been briefed on a private intelligence dossier claiming that Russian intelligence services had compromising material on him, while BuzzFeed published the dossier and its uncorroborated findings.
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Clapper had previously "flatly denied" leaking the contents of the dossier, but ultimately admitted to discussing the dossier with Tapper and other journalists shortly before Trump's inauguration in January 2017, the report states.
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Though the dossier wasn't relied on exclusively, Republicans believe the FBI inappropriately used the dossier to compile the FISA application, which meant the surveillance of Page was improperly authorized, and potentially politically motivated.
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And Nunes' investigation into the dossier is continuing, too, with a probe of the State Department, as he tries to determine who else in the Obama administration was aware of the Steele dossier.
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While the FBI used information beyond the dossier to support the court application, the dossier was cited in footnotes to specific allegations, according to current and former US officials briefed on the matter.
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Claim: The Steele dossier triggered the investigation Another flashpoint in the Russia investigation was the role of the "Steele dossier," a collection of private intelligence memos written by retired British spy Christopher Steele.
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Does this mean that everything in Chris' dossier is true?
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JORDAN: So, Mr. Ohr did not hand you the dossier?
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Trump says the information in the dossier is completely untrue.
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JORDAN: So Mr. Ohr did not hand you the dossier?
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Trump is wrong about the dossier in two different ways.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Trump dossier is back in the news.
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"The (Steele) dossier was a bunch of garbage," he said.
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CNN and others run the story of this unverified dossier.
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Leaking the dossier information to people like, what, Harry Reid?
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And then "BuzzFeed" publishes that entire phony Hillary Clinton dossier.
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The dossier was first published by BuzzFeed News in January.
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And that's where the controversial Steele dossier comes into play.
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The backdrop: Trump has said the dossier is entirely false.
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There are many reasons to be suspicious of the dossier.
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The first, the Christopher Steele dossier, has received enormous attention.
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What role did the Steele dossier play in the investigation?
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They would've immediately recognized the dossier for what it was.
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Gubarev denied the claims made about him in the dossier.
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Those claims in the Steele dossier have never been proven.
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Even the "Steele dossier" became a rejuvenated, sober issue again.
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" He added, "There is a Russia investigation without a dossier.
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This dossier, per CNN, has been around for some time.
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The dossier alleged that Russia used this to blackmail Trump.
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Maybe the writer and director, Damian Harris, has a dossier.
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These reports came to be known as the Steel Dossier.
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Mr. Kulyk's dossier did more than revive the Biden case.
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" The so-called "Steele Dossier" wasn't written by a "they.
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The dossier makes unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia.
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The dossier was compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele.
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How much of the Steele dossier was confirmed by Mueller?
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Moreover, the dossier was not that important to the application.
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He knew his dossier would be used to damage Trump.
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He was not paid for his work on the dossier.
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The most salacious claims in the dossier are still unverified.
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She really didn't have anything to do with the dossier.
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No build up, no dossier to prep for the ridiculous.
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Those claims in the Steele dossier have not been proven.
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The FISA application relied on additional evidence beyond the dossier.
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But that effort between the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet, and Fusion GPS came to an end without anything like that dossier or the involvement of the people who created the dossier.
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Allegations James Comey used dossier as leverage: Trump alleged former FBI Director James Comey spoke to him about a dossier complied by a former British spy to somehow use it as leverage against him.
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The memo includes the allegation that the FBI used the Trump-Russia dossier to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens — and claims that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is based entirely on the dossier.
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Per Defense One, Oracle did not respond to requests for comment about whether it was leading an effort to undermine Amazon or providing funding for the dossier or RosettiStarr, the firm behind the dossier.
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They argue that because the dossier was paid for in part by people connected to the Clinton campaign, the Trump-Russia investigation that is based on the dossier is therefore a political hit job.
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The basic argument behind the memo is this: Clinton's presidential campaign funded the creation of the Steele dossier, and the FBI used the dossier as the flimsy basis for a warrant to surveil Page.
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Make no mistake: this phony, dirty Russian dossier wasn&apost just referenced in the newly released documents on late Saturday night, instead Steele&aposs dossier was in fact the FISA application, all four of them.
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HANNITY: But the dossier, thinking about the dossier that she paid for and the fact that the FBI paid Steele, it was designed to misinform the American people with Russian lies to influence the election.
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They say that Clapper at first "flatly denied" leaking the contents of the dossier, but later admitted to discussing the dossier with Tapper and other journalists in early January of 2017, shortly before Trump's inauguration.
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Then, in an extensive interview with The New York Times in July, Trump brought up the dossier again, making the claim the Comey had used the dossier as leverage to try to keep his job.
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It's unclear how important that dossier info was relative to other factors, though the memo states that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said the FBI wouldn't have sought a warrant without information from the dossier.
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Media reports around that time identified Millian as a source of information in the dossier, though CNN has not confirmed his involvement nor many of the details in the dossier about alleged Trump-Russia collusion.
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The dossier served as opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump.
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"The Steele Dossier, we know how it was obtained," Dershowitz said.
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Page was mentioned in the dossier and had extensive Russian ties.
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Don't worry about Dems FISA Abuse, missing Emails or Fraudulent Dossier!
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And big time this dossier was a big part of it.
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Update: Incredibly, this isn't Microsoft's first time at the dossier rodeo.
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We first hear about the dossier, it&aposs kind of fishy.
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Four times they lied, the bulk of information, that phony dossier.
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"just like a real politician!" he told Melania, excitedly UNVERIFIED dossier.
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On the fake news dossier, Hillary Clinton has been completely silent.
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And the dossier plays a key role in this conspiracy theory.
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The dossier came later, but still this raise a credibility issue.
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INGRAHAM: The dossier was the basis for getting this FISA war.
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COMEY: I didn&apost ever brief President Obama on the dossier.
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A bulk of that FISA application deals with that dossier, why?
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Trump's Republicans rivals had originally funded the dossier during the primaries.
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The spycraft described in Ms. Kristeva's dossier is far less dramatic.
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Remember: The dossier isn't an official document of the intelligence community.
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Does that mean the claims in the dossier are likely true?
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The unverified dossier alleges contacts between Trump aides and Russian officials.
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The dossier contains unverified, and crude, information about President Donald Trump.
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" Smith cast doubt on Giuliani's assertions that the dossier is "laughable.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) who gave the FBI the dossier in December.
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The dossier contained largely unverified information about Trump's ties to Russia.
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"Hillary Clinton always denied it," Trump said of the dossier funding.
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Inevitably, though, word of the dossier began to spread through Washington.
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Some of the claims contained in the dossier are still unproven.
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Trump has long denounced the dossier and flatly denied its assertions.
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Or to expand slightly: The Clinton campaign funded the Steele dossier.
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Being implicated in the Steele dossier could indeed damage his business.
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Trump called the dossier "fake" and "discredited" four times that month.
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Second, Trump's assertion that the entire dossier is "fraudulent" is inaccurate.
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Readers liked the dossier story, the BuzzFeed editor in chief said.
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CNN didn't publish that dossier, because they couldn't confirm the details.
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"The dossier is not classified or an intelligence document," he continued.
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The dossier reportedly circulated among political journalists during the 2016 campaign.
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"How do you not bring up the Steele dossier?" asked Sekulow.ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
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They'll lean into Hunter Biden and bring up the infamous dossier.
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Steele's dossier makes clear that his sources were almost exclusively Russian.
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All of this is independent of Christopher Steele's notorious Russia dossier.
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Italgas is also looking at the dossier, the Italian daily added.
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The dossier contains salacious allegations about Trump that haven't been verified.
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The dossier had circulated throughout Washington during the 2016 presidential election.
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The relationship casts further doubt on an already highly dubious dossier.
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The dossier "doesn't take you anywhere, I don't think," he added.
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More important to investigators is where Team McCain got the dossier.
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The dossier mostly corroborated information about which the FBI already knew.
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Also in the news this week was that unsubstantiated Trump dossier.
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The dossier may be fake news, false news, or real news.
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Remember the Dirty Dossier, Uranium, Speeches, Emails and the Podesta Company!
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Clinton paid for the Steele dossier on Trump, he falsely claimed.
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What makes you so skeptical of the claims in that dossier?
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The Steele dossier, Nunes alleges, "formed an essential part of the Carter Page application," and he goes on to suggest that the application omitted several key facts about the dossier that undermine its credibility: most notably that the dossier was partially funded by the Democratic National Committee and that Steele himself has expressed his opposition to Donald Trump becoming president.
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" The excerpt, which is part of a bigger dossier on POTUS (but not that dossier), reads: "'Trump likes the women who work for him 'to dress like women,' says a source who worked on Trump's campaign.
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The dossier and a meeting with reporters: What Steele emerged with makes up what is now known as the Trump dossier: a 35-page document of raw intelligence out of Moscow on Trump and his businesses.
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The tradition of presidential support was unquestionably grounded at least partially in the fear of J. Edgar Hoover's rumored 50-year political skeleton "dossier," which would undoubtedly make the controversial "Steele dossier" look like child's play.
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"Was started by a fraudulent Dossier" Trump, as he often does, suggests that the only reason the Mueller probe exists is because of a "fraudulent dossier" on him put together by former British spy Christopher Steele.
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CNN has not been able to verify the allegations about the derogatory information in the dossier, but current and former US officials say some of the Russia-to-Russia conversations in the dossier have been corroborated.
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Ohr's wife worked for the firm behind the Steele dossier Much of the scrutiny on Ohr has surrounded his ties to Steele, whose dossier made salacious and unverified claims on the relationship between Trump and Russia.
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The news organization noted that despite the fact that many allegations in the dossier remained uncorroborated, high-level government officials had come into possession of the dossier and briefed then-president-elect Trump on its contents.
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The U.S. intelligence community said in a report made public in January that they took the allegations made in the dossier seriously, and Trump was briefed on the dossier shortly before taking office by Comey. Oct.
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Skeptics of the dossier say the only aspects that have been confirmed are those that were already publicly available and there is no evidence to support the core claims of collusion and corruption in the dossier.
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If it in fact was wrong, it would discredit the dossier as a whole (though there are many different sources quoted in the dossier, and even if many are accurate, it's possible that others are wrong).
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The Clinton campaign may have helped fund the Steele dossier — and then lied about doing so — but the reasons to worry about Trump's possible collusion with Moscow didn't start with the dossier, and don't end with it.
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Most of the people on Nunes&apos list of names have ties to the anti-Trump dossier compiled in 2016 by British ex-spy Christopher Steele or Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the dossier.
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The book in its entire first half is something like a dossier, and we know the dossier matters: It's the case file of someone who was witness to the clashes and convulsions of his own historical era.
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Claim: Steele dossier triggered Russia probe A regular rallying cry on conservative media and from Hill Republicans is that trigger-happy FBI agents used the Trump-Russia dossier to start the Russia investigation back in July 2016.
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Read more: Facebook says the FTC is officially investigating it over antitrust concernsSnap was reportedly documenting those instances in its "Project Voldemort" dossier — it's unclear whether or not Snap has handed over that dossier to the FTC.
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CNN has reported that the FBI used information beyond the dossier to support the court application, and the dossier was cited in footnotes to specific allegations, according to current and former US officials briefed on the matter.
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The memorandum evidently claims that the wiretap application relied on the infamous Steele dossier without disclosing to the FISA court that the dossier, which alleged that Trump had colluded with the Russians, was financed by the Democrats.
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BuzzFeed is suing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to get the committee to turn over information related to the so-called Steele dossier in an effort to bolster its defense in a lawsuit related to the dossier.
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IO produced a dossier on Cambridge Analytica last year, told VICE News.
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The first is that the allegations in the dossier are quite serious.
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Did the UC pay attention to anything else in the damned dossier?
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John, I think people here "dossier" they say what does that mean?
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The dossier was unverified, and yet it was used to obtain warrants.
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That whole Russian phony dossier she paid for, foreign national, funneled money.
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WATTERS: Was the dossier the primary element in obtaining the warrant, Juan?
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They used the dossier as the basis for one of their reports.
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JARRETT: On June 213th, Steele wrote his phony fictitious dossier first memo.
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A lot of contact with the state department, with the Steele dossier.
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Arguably, Buzzfeed's January publication of the infamous "dossier" fits this exact pattern.
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The problem with the dossier is, OK, they like the fake news.
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Steele wrote a dossier that alleged several years of Trump-Kremlin links.
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A dossier released as part of the JFK files says the Rev.
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All of the information on the dossier, and she is now admitting.
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Two weeks after he writes that dossier, he meets with the FBI.
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INGRAHAM: Well, the dossier was the basis for getting this FISA warrant.
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No, he had denied that he had any involvement in the dossier.
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The report comes after a week of new information surrounding the dossier.
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We knew the dossier was funded by Trump opponents in both parties.
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BINNEY: The Steele dossier, that involved the FBI, the DOJ and CIA.
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Republicans did not start the dossier as far as we can tell.
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In fact, the two met several times during the dossier&aposs creation.
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Carter Page was wiretapped for over a year on an unverified dossier.
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And we all know what the Justice Department did with the dossier.
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Hillary Clinton secretly bought a dossier that was sourced to Kremlin operatives.
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Without the dossier, there would be no FISA warrant against Carter Page.
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He produced a dossier on Microsoft employees as part of the demonstration.
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It starts with the dossier from a foreign spy basically, Christopher Steele.
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There's a lot of debate about BuzzFeed's decision to publish this dossier.
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CNN reported that Ailes produced a 400-page "dossier" to attack Sherman.
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Alexander also either told or showed numerous executives at Uber the dossier.
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The dossier was funded by political opponents of Trump during the campaign.
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Can we cut to the chase and just call it dossier-gate.
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On a vu beaucoup d'activité autour du dossier iranien, mais aussi l'Ukraine.
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Cohen has filed two defamation lawsuits over the release of the dossier.
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In fact these articles were in Supun's dossier according to the refugees.
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The dossier and photos are redacted in the documents obtained by Motherboard.
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BuzzFeed in January 2017 published the dossier in full with that warning.
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By turning the dossier into hard news, that leak weaponized malicious gossip.
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But Ohr's contacts about the Steele dossier weren't limited to the FBI.
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The dossier was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017, after the election.
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The dossier was leaked, and it is readily available on the internet.
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The highly classified report included a two-page appendix about the dossier.
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Someone asked how intelligence officials planned to handle the dossier with Trump.
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"To impeach Steele's dossier is to impeach Mueller's investigation," he told me.
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Reuters has not independently verified any of the claims in the dossier.
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The dossier and its claims have been the focus of intense scrutiny.
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I don't believe that a lot of the dossier has been disproven.
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So, that&aposs point number one, is the dossier and its use.
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BuzzFeed News published the full, unverified dossier that included the infamous claim.
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Sanders accused the Clinton campaign of lying about paying for the dossier.
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This dossier reflects your likes, your dislikes, your feelings, and political leanings.
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The FBI did reveal that the dossier was from a political source.
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Democrats have responded that there was ample evidence submitted beyond the dossier.
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The dossier was originally put together by former British spy Christopher Steele.
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In other words, the dossier was not what sparked the FBI investigation.
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Mr. Cohen is not the first to sue BuzzFeed over the dossier.
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Trump and his team say there is no truth in that dossier.
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"The Steele Dossier: A retrospective," by Sarah Grant and Chuck Rosenberg, Lawfare.
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The "dossier," Mr. MacLeod explained, wasn't a leaked internal United Nations report.
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Dans ce contexte, un dossier important sera certainement celui de l'état d'urgence.
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The dossier was gathered by a former British MI6 spy, Christopher Steele.
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Trump denies any collusion and has said Steele's Russia dossier is "bogus."
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McCain said he provided a copy of the dossier to the FBI.
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However, in the Steele dossier itself, it does source information from Ukraine.
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He claimed that McCabe said the dossier was "important" for the application.
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The same information from the dossier began to appear in the media.
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"Did you meet with intelligence officials regarding the dossier?" he was asked.
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Do we not have an independent counsel presumably investigating the Steele dossier?
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Consider the precedent that the Steele dossier sets for American electoral politics.
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BuzzFeed was the first outlet to publish the dossier a year ago.
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The most salacious allegations in the dossier remain unverified to this day.
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DOJ's Emails & Notes show Bruce Ohr's connection to (phony & discredited) Trump Dossier.
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But word of a dossier had begun to spread through political circles.
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All four were the bylines on the site's story publishing the dossier.
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The F.B.I. has not corroborated the most sensational assertions in the dossier.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee indirectly financed Steele's dossier.
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Russian officials even used it to blackmail Trump, according to the dossier.
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You're obviously referencing the explosive Trump dossier published by Buzzfeed in January.
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But the intercepts do confirm that some of the conversations described in the dossier took place between the same individuals on the same days and from the same locations as detailed in the dossier, according to the officials.
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House Republicans and their allies say the memo will show that the FBI abused its authority by using the dossier to convince a federal judge to authorize surveillance of Page, and not disclosing the background of the dossier.
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Lawyers had argued that to the extent Trump called the dossier fake in his tweets or elsewhere, the court should consider that as "official disclosure" that Trump somehow knew that the allegations in the dossier had been discredited.
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"The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele," he said.
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Officials told CNN that information in the dossier had to be corroborated by the FBI before they could include it in the FISA application, although they would not specify what or how much of the dossier was corroborated.
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" For three nights beginning March 8, five choreographers — Beth Gill, Jonathan Gonzalez, Miguel Gutierrez, Angie Pittman and Edisa Weeks — will respond to the dossier materials in a program titled "The Dossier Charrette: a series of working dance essays.
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He would not explain, for instance, what else he did or sources he used to verify information in the dossier about Webzilla, its parent company XBT and their Russian founder Aleksej Gubarev, who were named in the dossier.
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"I had more concerns about publishing the dossier than did my colleagues in New York who were on the call," BuzzFeed reporter Ken Bensinger, who had tried to confirm parts of the dossier, wrote in a sworn statement.
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We talked to an ex-KGB colonel and Putin critic about the Trump-Russia dossier We talked to an ex-KGB colonel and Putin critic about the Trump-Russia dossier The salacious allegations about President-elect Donald Trump made in a dossier authored by an ex-British intelligence officer have brought the old Soviet practice of "kompromat" — the gathering of compromising material — to the forefront.
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Devin Nunes (R-CA) that alleged that the Trump-Russia probe was built on the DNC-backed Steele dossier — Hannity said: McCabe testified that without the dossier, the FISA warrant to surveil [Trump associates] would never have been approved.
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CNN reported that senior intelligence officials had presented Trump with the dossier but did not publish the dossier itself, noting that much of it — which was sourced primarily through a retired British intelligence agent — had not yet been confirmed.
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From pardons to the dossier Cohen weighed in on a variety of topics in his two days of testimony, from the prospect of pardons to the claims made about him in the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia.
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While the Clinton campaign long denied the connection to the Steele dossier, including in meetings with investigators, Clinton and her top campaign officials belatedly admitted to funding the dossier after media found evidence linking it to Clinton's top lawyer.
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"The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele," the statement adds.
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The U.S. intelligence community said in a report made public in January that they took the allegations made in the dossier seriously, and Trump was briefed on the dossier shortly before taking office by former FBI Director James Comey.
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JORDAN: So Bruce Ohr did give the FBI information relative to the dossier?
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The dossier was opposition research paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign.
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BAIER: There was a lot more than the dossier in the FISA application?
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Nonetheless, Trump has continued to claim that the dossier triggered the Russia investigation.
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Trump is also wrong that Clinton "was totally involved" in the Steele dossier.
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Martin Keay also dismissed the dossier, and all other forms of lawless retribution.
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The dossier was unverified and that was used to get a FISA warrant.
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The inquiry into the dossier occurred during a fiery exchange earlier between Rep.
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They also alleged that Bruce Ohr passed the dossier on to the FBI.
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Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th.
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The dossier is a series of memos by retired British spy Christopher Steele.
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Second, investigators used more than just the dossier to get the FISA warrant.
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A copy of the dossier has been handed to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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"The Wansink Dossier" mushroomed into a list of dozens of allegedly faulty papers.
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This is the most graphic allegation about the president in the Steele dossier.
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The FBI, they say, had good reason to suspect Page beyond the dossier.
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In addition to the supposed tape, the dossier contains other potentially damning allegations.
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If the FBI knows the dossier is bullshit, why haven't they said so?
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The dossier also alleged that the Russian government had compromising information on Trump.
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The article noted that the dossier "includes specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations."
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Also tonight, Hillary Clinton is now defending this discredited, phony, anti-Trump dossier.
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But all these other issues I am talking about the Fusion GPS dossier.
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The Trump campaign compiled a dossier on Kasich, but never actually vetted him.
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None of the wild claims in the dossier have been proven, not publicly.
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And as for James Clapper, he is ensnared in the dossier scandal also.
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The court documents also show McCain was informed of the dossier on Nov.
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HANNITY: When you look at Uranium One, you look at the Russian dossier.
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But it's unclear how much of that $9 million went toward the dossier.
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The public won't know what's in that dossier until after the election, however.
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You said that the dossier, besides the whole salacious thing, was mostly true.
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But it's unclear how much of that $9 million went toward the dossier.
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The dossier claimed that Cohen had a major role in conspiring with Russia.
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The Lucent Dossier Experience gave the most visually stunning performance of the night.
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BAIER: There was a lot more than the dossier and the FISA application?
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Media like CNN had the dossier and were looking for a news hook.
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Now, he wants to throw a Hail Mary with, again, unverified Steele dossier.
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Here's the doozy of a dossier: Does 15 percent seem light for Jobs?
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I mean, this dossier was the basis for the investigation of Donald Trump.
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The so-called Steele Dossier was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
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" Disproven and paid for by Democrats "Dossier used to spy on Trump Campaign.
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" Cohen said the dossier was "riddled with total falsehoods and intentionally salacious accusations.
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The former foreign spy responsible for the Clinton bought and paid for dossier?
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Steele was initially commissioned to write the dossier by political opponents of Trump.
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Her campaign is busted paying for the salacious and partly discredited Trump dossier.
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I think we will slow the vetting of the information in the dossier.
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Hillary Clinton is defending her campaign's role in the infamous dossier on Trump.
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Colin Kaepernick's name was scrubbed from 'Madden 210' song STEELE DOSSIER SUBPOENAS COMING?
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What was your first impression of this story and the dossier in particular?
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Steele was hired to write the dossier shortly thereafter, between June-December 2016.
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This dossier contained information alleging a conspiracy between Trump and the Russian government.
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How do the dossier and Fusion GPS relate to the Trump Jr. meeting?
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Thanks to this CNN investigation, 'the dossier' is now part of the lexicon.
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The dossier stated that Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague in 2016.
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There should be a name for this kind-of sort-of online dossier.
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What role did the FBI have in financing or exploiting the Steele dossier?
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You haven't even started verifying the substance of the dossier, only the credibility.
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Fusion GPS commissioned Christopher Steele, a former British spy, to compile the dossier.
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The dossier included claims that Russian intelligence had compromising financial information about Trump.
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That news hook became the leak that Comey briefed Trump on the dossier.
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Having the dossier did not change CNN's need for confirmation from government officials.
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A dossier is a briefing file drawn up about a person or thing.
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By the time Sussmann reached out, Steele's dossier already was inside the FBI.
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No public evidence has emerged to corroborate this specific claim in the dossier.
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Trump also asked who funded the dossier in a tweet on October 19.
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Moreover, Steele's dossier was only part of what the fisa warrant rested on.
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The news organization never fully vetted the assertions that the dossier had made.
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He noted that Steele had drawn on Russian contacts to amass the dossier.
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Just who conspired to put the "dossier" into the hands of the FBI?
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Cohen said allegations made against him in the dossier were proven false Wednesday.
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What is clear is that the dossier was not why the investigation began.
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Links from around the web… > GOP chairman readies Steele dossier subpoenas (The Hill).
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The provenance of the Steele dossier is at the heart of Nunes memo.
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"We stand by our decision to publish the dossier," said a BuzzFeed spokesperson.
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The dossier has nothing to do with an email sent by Cambridge Analytica.
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But it did find collusion with Hillary and the D.N.C. on the dossier.
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Was any significant piece of information in the dossier found to be inaccurate?
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And, of course, there is Hillary Clinton, whose campaign paid for the dossier.
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Nevertheless, the perception that Blair's office directly involved itself in the dossier persisted.
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Most things in the dossier were double-source but that was single source.
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Early language of the dossier said Hussein was attempting to purchase enriched uranium.
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Mr. Trump condemned the fact that the dossier had been made widely available.
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Our choice to publish the dossier was greeted by outrage from two sources.
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The dossier contained claims about connections between Mr. Trump, his associates and Russia.
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Headlines - US presses Boris Johnson with new dossier on Huawei security risks on.ft.
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You can argue that the dossier was going to get out there anyway.
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The dossier alleged that Cohen traveled to Prague to collude with the Kremlin.
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"Jeffrey has enjoyed an especially close relationship with Celina, 250," the dossier said.
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The dossier created by Fusion GPS contains salacious and unverified allegations against Trump.
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Over the years Trevor-Roper accumulated an entire dossier devoted to the case.
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The former FBI director later testified that the meeting was about the dossier.
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Fusion GPS is the opposition research firm that compiled the infamous Steele dossier.
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Republicans have condemned the dossier as a sham document filled with Russian propaganda.
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He has argued that the dossier taints special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
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The part of the Steele dossier that mentions Page is one page long.
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" Disproven and paid for by Democrats "Dossier used to spy on Trump Campaign.
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Fusion GPS similarly faces several lawsuits related to its work on the dossier.
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Critics of the dossier, however, have largely dismissed the account in the Times.
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And the American people -- if they're asking the question 'was the dossier used?
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Running every detail of the dossier, as BuzzFeed did, would have been irresponsible.
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The Washington Post's effort to keep the Trump dossier alive borders on farce.
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Seen as a leak, however, the dossier seems more likely to be true.
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Comey admits that the dossier was unverified when it was used as evidence.
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Trump and his associates who were named in the dossier deny any collusion.
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Reuters had reported Wednesday that the dossier had become part of Mueller's probe.
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Trump has sought to tie the origins of Mueller's probe to the dossier.
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Cohen is mentioned in the dossier as having suspicious ties to Russian figures.
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The biggest issue with the Steele dossier is how it came to be.
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Now, he did hear about the dossier, according to people that I&aposve spoken with, and I find it hard to believe that although reporters all over Washington, D.C. knew about this dossier, that the CIA director knew nothing about it.
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US officials said the information was not drawn from the leaked dossier of unverified information compiled by a former British intelligence official compiled for Trump's political opponents, though the dossier also suggested coordination between Trump campaign associates and Russian operatives.
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The FBI had evidence that lent credence to an explosive dossier alleging links between Russia and then-candidate Donald Trump, from a source within either Trump's campaign or business, according to the head of the firm that commissioned the dossier.
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" Graham went further, calling on "a special counsel ... to review this matter" because of "how Mr. Steele conducted himself in distributing information contained in the dossier and how many stop signs the DOJ ignored in its use of the dossier.
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Now, the White House says he was a volunteer, and it seems that Papadopoulos, on his own, was trying to create an anti-Clinton Russian dossier like the Fusion GPS Hillary DNC President Obama-funded dossier and he wasn&apost successful.
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The Trump-Russia dossier is also part of Mueller's investigation, and just this week we learned that Hillary Clinton's campaign, the DNC and the Washington Free Beacon hired the firm behind the dossier to collect research on Republican candidates, including Trump.
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"The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele," they said in a statement.
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"The lawsuits against BuzzFeed over the Steele dossier have never been about the merits of our decision to publish it," BuzzFeed said in a statement, referring to British spy Christopher Steele, who was commissioned by Fusion GPS to compile the dossier.
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"Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier 'is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,'" he tweeted, referring to McCain's decision in December 2016 to turn the dossier containing salacious (and largely uncorroborated) intel about Trump over to the FBI.
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In nearly seven hours of testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Simpson defended the Trump opposition research dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, arguing that nothing from the dossier had been disproven and some of it had been corroborated, the sources said.
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Every time Trump on Twitter calls the dossier fake, he could be acknowledging that the intelligence community investigated it and presented to him their findings, according to a court filing Tuesday from lawyers who seek official government information about the dossier.
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They have also inquired about the FBI's approach to the dossier — the bureau reportedly started looking into its allegations last year, and there have been questions about whether the FBI at some point last year paid Steele for the dossier.
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What to watch: This theory will remain stalled out unless there are new developments that tie Clinton to the dossier more directly than we've seen, or any new evidence that the surveillance of Page would not have happened without the dossier.
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"After reviewing how Mr. Steele conducted himself in distributing information contained in the dossier and how many stop signs the DOJ ignored in its use of the dossier, I believe that a special counsel needs to review this matter," said Sen.
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Democrats have charged that Republicans have tried to use the dossier to undercut special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, and argue that the FBI's Russia investigation began because of conversations involving former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and not the dossier.
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The dossier also alleges the Russian government had been "cultivating" Trump for several years.
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Christopher Steele, a former British spy, compiled the dossier for Fusion GPS in 2016.
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JORDAN: So, Mr. Bruce Ohr did give the FBI information relative to the dossier?
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This investigation started flawed with the dossier and Matt Gaetz had some great questioning.
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January 10: the infamous Steele dossier surfaces FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!
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The publication of the so-called Steele dossier, which included the "pee tape" rumors.
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Is there any collusion allegation that doesn't come in some form from the dossier?
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Steele noted that he couldn't vouch for the claims in the second dossier, however.
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HANNITY: -- that put together a Russian dossier that was used to lie about you.
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Trump has slammed the dossier as "bogus" and denies his campaign colluded with Russia.
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Gubarev filed suit against BuzzFeed News after it published the dossier in January 2017.
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The dossier is back in this news this week for a couple of reasons.
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Then as now, Bush launched a comprehensive policy review of the North Korea dossier.
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Follow the cash, Uranium One, paper play, fake dossier, and now the primary rigging.
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I think they&aposre more talking about the dossier and the Uranium One deal.
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Steele, according to the Wall Street Journal, is the actual author of the dossier.
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Between that and the Trump dossier that Clinton, the DNC and Obama paid for.
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Now, of course, we can't help but wonder: What's in Microsoft's dossier for Gizmodo?
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The dossier claimed that Michael Cohen went to Prague to meet with the Russians.
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HANNITY: Let&aposs go to the dossier crimes and the scandal according to them.
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The firm then hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to write the dossier.
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Rubio&aposs team insisted this week that they had no knowledge of the dossier.
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Did the FBI based its original investigation, at least in part of the dossier?
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GUTFELD: The meeting that was driven by the questionable dossier that they paid for.
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Up next, Democrats working overtime to deny their role in that anti-Trump dossier.
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"Jill admitted later that she had this whole dossier on me," Ms. Myles said.
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Nobody has been indicted, investigated by team Mueller regarding Clinton&aposs dirty Russian dossier.
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And now all of this stuff with the phony dossier that Hillary paid for.
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He is also suing BuzzFeed in the US, which published the dossier in full.
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And what would that legal standard mean for Hillary Clinton and that dirty dossier?
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Clapper allegedly leaked the dossier to CNN, fake news, which now as his employer.
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The dossier was published by BuzzFeed in January, but it was not until Oct.
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"The allegations raised against me in the Steele dossier were blatant lies," Cohen said.
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By the way, the dossier had phony lies and FISA judges were lied to.
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Cobbling together a DIY dossier about a celebrity is a time-honored internet tradition.
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Renault said in a statement that Racing Point had prepared a 12-page dossier.
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Some have pointed to sloppy typographical mistakes in the dossier to question the material.
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Questionable because there is no solid foundation for the claims outlined in the dossier.
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The veracity of the BuzzFeed dossier will be questioned obsessively in the coming weeks.
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In it, they attached a two-page summary of the dossier to the report.
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His wife is working for Fusion GPS with Christopher Steele putting together this dossier.
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And then these conversations kind of morph at midyear 2016 into a dossier conversation.
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We know relatively little about the source of the dossier apart from his name.
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The rest struck off for lack of evidence or other reasons, the dossier found.
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It also notes the dossier was funded by the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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Trump backers call the 35-page report a "dodgy dossier" financed by Clinton supporters.
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Steele and Simpson had Russian-tied business connections, too, while they formulated the dossier.
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Trump's claim that the so-called "Steele dossier" is "fraudulent" is also not accurate.
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We've seen a great deal of activity on the Iranian dossier, but also Ukraine.
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Clapper discussed the dossier with journalists and lied to the committee about it. pic.twitter.
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Trump has blamed the intelligence community for leaking about the meeting and the dossier.
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In fact, the dossier seems unverifiable, and efforts to do so are in vain.
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Steele compiled an unverified and controversial dossier detailing Trump's alleged ties to the Kremlin.
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Do these assertions in the dossier sound like he knows what he's talking about?
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Did the FBI rely exclusively on the Steele dossier to get a FISA warrant?
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The dossier was commissioned as opposition research by political opponents of then-candidate Trump.
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The White House has dismissed the dossier, and most of the claims remain unverified.
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Republicans have long scrutinized the dossier following revelations it was paid for by Democrats.
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"Was the dossier a part of why you opened up the investigation?" asked Rep.
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We now have revelations that the State Department was involved with the Steele dossier.
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The dossier indicated that Russian intelligence videotaped this encounter to use to blackmail Trump.
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When this started, I urged people to read the Steele dossier published by BuzzFeed.
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Special Counsel Mueller's various indictments of Manafort have also strengthened aspects of the dossier.
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The dossier helped fuel the congressional and Justice Department investigations into Trump and Russia.
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They've argued the same thing before, after Trump tweeted about the dossier in October.
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For instance, Manafort suggested lines of attack involving the "Steele Dossier" and Fusion GPS.
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"So there's going to be a Russia probe, even without a dossier," said Gowdy.
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But it was included in the dossier against our wishes because it wasn't reliable.
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Still, by late in the year, the dossier was Washington's most notorious open secret.
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The BBC reported that the dossier was a "road map" to the F.B.I. investigation.
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But questions persist about the F.B.I.'s use of a dossier financed by Mrs.
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The dossier remained largely out of public view until BuzzFeed published it on Jan.
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The dossier suggests Indian officials were split on what to do about the family.
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The validity of the dossier might be unclear, but the law here is not.
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The dossier published by BuzzFeed was originally intended as "opposition research" against Mr. Trump.
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The Bern museum will host "Dossier Gurlitt: 'Degenerate Art,' Confiscated and Sold," from Nov.
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One likes to "Pass the Courvoisier" and the other likes to publish a dossier.
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Beginning in mid-November 2016, the effort to verify the dossier began, Horowitz said.
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The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos' meeting in Great Britain.
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None of the deaths have been definitively linked to the dossier by the authorities.
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The testimony provided a handful of new details about the production of the dossier.
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They have also claimed that the FBI relied too much on the Steele dossier.
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Nunes has been one of the fiercest attack dogs in pursuit of the dossier.
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The FBI did not use the so-called Steele dossier to start the probe.
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Republican senators request a criminal probe into the author of the Trump dossier. Jan.
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Did Mueller's findings confirm parts of Steele's dossier that the original FBi investigation hadn't?
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The most salacious and damning allegations in the dossier remain unverified to this day.
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Republicans had previously funded the opposition research effort that later led to the dossier.
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Steele has become a highly scrutinized figure over the Trump-Russia dossier he compiled.
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Colbert hands Clinton a dossier of unused 'Clinton victory' jokes from Election Night. pic.twitter.
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The first FISA authorization predated the dossier as the investigation began back in 2014.
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The dossier has remained a key aspect of the probes into Russian election meddling.
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Carlson plans to submit a peer-reviewed dossier with those findings to the FDA.
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The notorious and still far-from-confirmed claim first emerged from Christopher Steele's dossier.
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Some details within the dossier have been verified, but much of it remains unconfirmed.
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CNN did not include any of the specific allegations contained within the dossier in its report, because the media company had not verified the claims, though the dossier has apparently been making the rounds among government officials and journalists for some time.
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While defending the Fusion GPS dossier as standard opposition research, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez maintained he only learned about the dossier "a few days ago" – before explaining how his predecessors at the DNC could have set up such a project.
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"The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele," a statement from the publication said.
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Schiff: Steele dossier's political motivation disclosed in FISA application In the interview, Gowdy said the Steele dossier was not "the exclusive information" the FISA court used for the Page warrant, but contended the court would not have approved the warrant without the dossier.
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On Tuesday, Meadows would not confirm when Ohr handed over the elements of the dossier he'd received from Steele to the FBI, and did not divulge the source of Ohr's knowledge that he testified to about the FBI's early opinion of the dossier.
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"I made the final decision to publish the Dossier because I believed that the information reported in the CNN story made the Dossier itself, rather than the allegations therein, an important story," BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith wrote to the court.
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But while the headlines may shift, Mueller's attention to a dossier-related scandal must not.
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The dossier how that was handled what people say under oath, I get all that.
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DOJ also presented a news article that was sourced from the author of the dossier.
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In addition, some of the most salacious details of the dossier have not been verified.
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The dossier details about a dozen conversations between senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals.
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A dossier on Donald Trump's psychological makeup is being prepared for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Last year, a controversial dossier compiled by a former British spy sent shockwaves through Washington.
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As of now, there is currently no evidence that the Clintons knew about Shearer's dossier.
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Here's a breakdown of their claims, the truth about the dossier, and everything in between.
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Singer's lawyer stated that without access to the dossier she cannot respond to its allegations.
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Why was the president still referring to the infamous dossier months after it had dropped?
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Cohen was also named in the controversial, and unsubstantiated, dossier that was leaked in January.
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All of that was recorded and pieced together in the dossier that Buzzfeed eventually published.
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In practice, that means Evans' brother — Gavin, who lives in Chicago — will compile a dossier.
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They spied on a US campaign, wiretapped Americans, bit on the dossier and unmasked Flynn.
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In short, the Russia investigation would have existed even if the Steele dossier never did.
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Cohen is also not the first person named in the dossier to come after BuzzFeed.
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So, still to come tonight, the Democrats&apos growing connection to the anti-Trump dossier.
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As an ex-member of Russia's secret services, does the dossier look genuine to you?
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Without this dossier, Carter Page would not have been surveilled in the fall of 2016.
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When you bring in the fake dossier and the illegal spying, it doesn&apost look.
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Did any reasoning to actually wiretap Trump Tower come from what was in the dossier?
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I didn&apost know about the dossier or the Fusion GPS until after the election.
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WALLACE: Who in the Clinton campaign approved paying for the Russian dossier on Donald Trump?
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Without this dossier Carter Page would not have been surveilled in the fall of 2016.
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The whole idea that Republicans started this dossier, we have absolutely no evidence of that.
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Members of Merkel's conservatives have compiled a dossier on Schulz, raking over his Brussels record.
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JARRETT: Christopher Steele, who fabricated this dossier that drove the Russia hoax, the collusion narrative.
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This acknowledgment from Steele referred specifically to one memo he wrote, not his entire dossier.
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I&aposll tell you why the House Judiciary Committee chairman is preparing Steele dossier subpoenas.
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PIRRO: -- with multiple judges, should have had additional evidence in addition to the unverified dossier.
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Let&aposs not forget that Brennan was caught lying last year on the Steele dossier.
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Devin Nunes made a claim about how the FBI made use of the Steele dossier.
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After the release of the dossier, she reiterated her denials in an interview on Friday.
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The President brought up the dossier that he had been briefed on at Trump Tower.
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Now they had the evidence they needed to bring a full dossier to the FCC.
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The dossier included a wide range of allegations, including salacious and unproven ones about Trump.
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Her entire dossier on the man, every digital breadcrumb of his personal history, had vanished.
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The British agent, Christopher Steele, had produced the dossier initially as opposition research into Trump.
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Let's start with the obvious question: Was BuzzFeed's decision to publish the Trump dossier justifiable?
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Also, publication will likely accelerate discovery of what in dossier is true and what not.
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Remember, his wife Nellie -- well, she helped the build allies for Fusion GPS, the dossier.
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INGRAHAM: Are you saying you think Oleg Deripaska had something to do with the dossier?
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Given everything you've said, would you consider this dossier to be meaningful evidence of anything?
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That the intelligence community has corroborated certain non-sexual claims in the Trump-opposition dossier.
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Michael Conaway, said earlier Tuesday that he supported the effort to obtain the dossier documents.
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Steele's "dossier" of research would eventually comprise 17 reports written over a six-month period.
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President Obama was briefed on the dossier, including the "pee tape" claim, in January 22.
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What does Fusion GPS have to do with the dossier and who were their customers?
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The dossier has yet to be independently verified or publicly confirmed by U.S. intelligence officials.
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The controversial dossier alleges the Russian government possesses compromising financial and personal information about Trump.
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It took court action in Britain to get to the truth about the Steele dossier.
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The dossier, which was compiled during the 28503 election, was funded in part by Democrats.
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The dossier contains numerous allegations, including some salacious claims, about the president's ties to Russia.
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It is a change from the way the trip was reported in the Steele dossier.
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Steele wrote a controversial dossier making unverified allegations about the Trump campaign's ties to Moscow.
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Moreover, it is not clear that Nellie Ohr did significant work on the Steele dossier.
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That dossier alleges ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, but has not been verified.
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Voters are uncertain about whether the investigations into Trump World were spurred by the dossier.
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Fusion GPS contracted with Christopher Steele, and ex-British intelligence agent, to produce the dossier.
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It's what the dossier said and the extent to which it was corroborated or not.
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That briefing very likely (based off Reid's letter to Comey) used information from the dossier.
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Orbis has landed several new clients as a result of the publicity surrounding the dossier.
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Trump has repeatedly claimed that the claims made in the dossier are false and discredited.
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According to court records, a McCain ally also provided the dossier to BuzzFeed in 2016.
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Fusion hired the former British spy who assembled the dossier in the summer of 2016.
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Some of that research became the dossier of allegations about the now-President and Russia.
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Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up.
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The dossier was funded by Fusion GPS, a research firm hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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Steele and Simpson shopped the dossier to various news outlets before BuzzFeed eventually published it.
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An accompanying document in the archived dossier read: "the settlement in Bavaria cannot be permitted".
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Fusion GPS, the political research firm behind the dossier, was also named in Cohen's lawsuit.
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His now-infamous dossier became a key document justifying the surveillance warrants against Carter Page.
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Lonestar, Blackstone and Hines have shown some initial interest in the dossier, the paper added.
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Ultimately you've created the largest dossier on yourself and you've done it freely, even gleefully.
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FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION.
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Comey: "I didn't get a sense" that Trump knew about Steele dossier allegations #MTP pic.twitter.
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The allegations in that dossier have not been verified by U.S. intelligence or by reporters.
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Former British spy Christopher Steele compiled the dossier for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
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This is an involuntary dossier from which you cannot opt out in the United States.
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Trump has accused the intelligence community of leaking the dossier information, which its leaders denied.
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Both XBT and Webzilla were named in the dossier as being used for the hacking.
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The claim appears in a dossier containing a number of colourful, unverified allegations about Trump.
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After CNN's report, BuzzFeed published the British officer's full dossier, which you can read here.
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The agency did reportedly hire Steele after obtaining the dossier to further probe its contents.
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The dossier tantalized Mr. Trump's opponents with a worst-case account of the president's conduct.
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The dossier also included salacious — and unproven, if not false — stories about Trump's personal behavior.
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"Sir, another Russian dossier is circulating in intelligence channels," Gina Haspel, the C.I.A. director, said.
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The Washington Post reported this week that Clinton's campaign and the DNC funded the dossier.
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The memo said the dossier information was "essential" in acquiring the warrants to monitor Page.
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Mr. Trump discussed the dossier with James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence.
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He went into hiding in January after his name surfaced in reports about the dossier.
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The Bonn show, "Dossier Gurlitt: Nazi Art Theft and Its Consequences," will run from Nov.
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Most of this memo references what was already known about the use of the dossier.
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Indeed, to experienced observers, the dossier reads like a standard disinformation campaign of the Kremlin.
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He then says that the allegations in the dossier and article have hurt him professionally.
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He also said that the intelligence community "couldn't corroborate the sourcing" of Mr. Steele's dossier.
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Democrats responded by declaring that Simpson's testimony bolstered allegations in the dossier and Steele's credibility.
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If all the information in the dossier is false, it is a very sophisticated fabrication.
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Meanwhile, reporters had met with a former British intelligence officer who was building the dossier.
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Gubarev vehemently denied those allegations and sued BuzzFeed for defamation after it published the dossier.
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The Free Beacon maintains that it did not fund or have knowledge of Steele's dossier.
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Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, who contracted Steele to produce the dossier, disputes that account.
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The FBI cited Steele's dossier, among other factors, in the warrant application to wiretap Page.
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Republicans have long had an issue with the dossier, but this week, Republicans, including Sen.
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Trump believes he shouldn't have done this: John McCain received the fake and phony dossier.
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Trump continues to attack McCain, even months after his death — including on the Steele dossier.
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Its mention was contained in an unverified dossier of claims about Trump's ties to Russia.
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The individuals interviewed for this lawsuit and whose statements were shared with the judge included Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who wrote the dossier, several BuzzFeed employees and David Kramer, the former diplomat who gave the dossier to a BuzzFeed reporter, and government officials.
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On this ground, Steele's attorneys refused to answer the court's request for the identity of the funder of the dossier as "not relevant to the inquiry," and they justify their briefing of the news media of the contents of the dossier on national security grounds.
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The dossier, however, was only part of the material on which the request was based, and any portion of the dossier used as evidence first would have been independently confirmed by U.S. or allied intelligence or law enforcement agencies, one of the sources said.
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Perhaps that's why the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had the dossier long before it was known to exist publicly and used the dossier to launch its "Russian collusion" investigation, continues to block the testimony of two agents who used the document for such ends.
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The Republican memo also accuses the Justice Department of using Steele's dossier as the linchpin of its application to the FISA court, while the Democratic memo argues that the Justice Department gave the court a host of additional information to consider beyond the dossier.
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The big picture: Even when you're cautious about sharing, Facebook's dossier on you will be hefty.
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Indeed, the dossier is almost certainly connected to the most audacious crime of the 2016 campaign.
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JORDAN: The top DOJ official Bruce Ohr actually hands parts of the dossier to the FBI.
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So Team Nunes is admitting that Papadopoulos triggered the FBI's Russia investigation -- not the Steele dossier?
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These things all raise profound questions about Trump's ties to Russia independently of the Steele dossier.
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Steele has said that he believes between 70 and 90 percent of the dossier is true.
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It's difficult to know what, if any, impact the dossier itself had on the Russia investigation.
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INGRAHAM: Again, now why would the state department be involved with the Christopher Steele Dossier issue?
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Again, phony Dossier, Christopher Steele, MI6, worked as an agent, supposedly has all these Russian sources.
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He sued BuzzFeed for defamation over claims in the dossier, although he later dropped the suit.
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One batch of reports that Winer reviewed in the summer of 2016 was the Steele dossier.
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The dossier was based on unverified material prepared by an investigative firm for Mr Trump's opponents.
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What unites them is the way they assemble data points into a sometimes eerily detailed dossier.
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The dossier does not accuse Mr. Bin Atef of personal involvement in the C.I.A. operative's death.
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The dossier was funded in part by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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The person whose name was redacted suggested another edit: that the dossier had been widely circulated.
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Steele has acknowledged speaking to reporters about the dossier in the weeks before the 2016 election.
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"He could have easily fed some misinformation into the dossier" regardless who was paying for it.
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They brought up longtime conservative bugaboos like the Steele dossier and former FBI agent Peter Strzok.
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There is a difference between her pain for the dossier and Trump-Russia so-called collusion.
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Uranium One giving up 20 percent of our uranium, all the money kickback to the dossier.
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In truth, Comey briefed Trump for the purpose of getting that dossier out to the public.
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FOWLER: So the FBI probe was already open prior to this to dossier he&aposs written.
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The firm then hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to write the now-infamous dossier.
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WALLACE: On everything from the uranium deal, to the Russia dossier, her e-mails -- GRAHAM: Right.
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There is only one reason Steele is the one person who supports the inaccurate, unverified dossier.
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So if you think this is a horrible thing you should be concerned about the dossier.
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And this week we learned that dossier wasn&apos wasn&apost just used by the Clintons.
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Video HOW DID YAHOO NEWS ARTICLE END UP BOLSTERING THE STEELE DOSSIER IN THE FISA COURT?
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" On whether the Steele dossier is relevant to the probe: "It is Bob Mueller's responsibility now.
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The dossier alleged Russian financial dealings with Trump and included salacious personal details that remain unconfirmed.
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Trump cited the Israeli dossier in announcing his decision to pull out of the deal Tuesday.
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The dossier contains numerous allegations of Russian ties to Trump, his associates and the Trump campaign.
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But as Cooper noted, no one on the campaign has taken responsibility for the dossier, either.
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Look at Podesta, look at all the things that they have done with the phony dossier.
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BuzzFeed will say that they only printed the dossier after CNN first reported on the story.
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Trump has categorically denied that there is any truth to the allegations contained in the dossier.
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Is there any chance this dossier was deliberately leaked by the intelligence community to damage Trump?
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The dossier grabbed international headlines after intelligence officials presented it to Trump and then-President Obama.
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Beck said he brought a dossier to military officials showing the extent of Marine Lance Cpl.
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Your questions about it are answered below: A: It all started with the famed Steele dossier.
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It circulated among media and political types, then BuzzFeed published the dossier shortly after Trump's election.
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The dossier contains claims about Trump's ties to Russia, including some salacious allegations about the president.
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That case involved a dossier alleging salacious and largely unverified connections between Trump and the Kremlin.
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Democrats have collected a large Trump dossier including, they say, material that hasn't been made public.
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On July 30, over breakfast, Steele asked Bruce Ohr to share his dossier with the FBI.
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In that case, the dossier becomes an instrument of Kremlin disinformation yielded by Putin's inner circle.
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The heart of the Steele dossier is the Russians are coming to mess with our election.
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He used Strzok, he used the Clinton DNC Dossier...the whole thing.... ....should be shut down.
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Steele's theories, of course, are contained in the so-called Steele dossier provided to the FBI.
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Lebsock has denied the charges, even distributing a dossier that detailed personal information about his accusers.
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It's been widely known that the Steele dossier circulated throughout Washington in the election's final months.
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"Justin Trudeau is looking at Trump's hand like he just read the Russian Dossier,"says another.
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The dossier had reportedly been circulating for some time among news outlets before the 2016 election.
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The dossier had originally been commissioned by Republicans opposed to Trump during the GOP presidential primary.
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Trump and his associates who were named in the dossier continue to vehemently deny any collusion.
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Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele compiled the dossier, which included scandalous, unverified material about Trump.
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The dossier is the focus of numerous investigations into Russian meddling in last year's presidential election.
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This included, as reported by CNN, the compiling of a 2000-page dossier on Mr. Sherman.
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" He added later that the story about Democratic funding for the dossier was "Watergate, modern age.
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The unverified dossier claiming Russia had compromising information on Trump was published ahead of Trump's inauguration.
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Two weeks later, the entire dossier was published on the South African Communist Party's Web site.
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The opposition research dossier contained numerous allegations, some of which remain unverified, about Trump's Russia connections.
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The accusation seems unlikely, though not impossible, and Trump has denied the validity of the dossier.
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Questions remain surrounding the dossier compiled by a British agent alleging collusion between Trump and Russia.
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Investigators will transfer his dossier to parliament, which could authorize judicial proceedings against him, he added.
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By labelling the three bankers as criminals, the dossier identifies Putin as a criminal as well.
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"The discussion that Ambassador Rice documented did not involve the so-called Steele dossier," she continued.
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The lawsuit about the dossier isn't the only one where Trump's tweets inch into the dispute.
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Fusion GPS had hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, to compile the dossier on Trump.
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The visible sections of the released FISA documents do not indicate the dossier was ever verified.
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It shows the intimate Steele dossier was, in fact, a major component for the surveillance warrant.
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Ohr's wife worked for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that was behind the Steele dossier.
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Val Gurvits, Gubarev's attorney, says redacting his client's name from the dossier no longer solves things.
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Some of the details of the dossier have already been confirmed by former Trump officials themselves.
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Hours later, Buzzfeed published the 35-page dossier of unverified material, which contains multiple known errors.
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Buzzfeed News later Tuesday night published a dossier detailing those explosive and unsubstantiated allegations against Trump.
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The Washington Post previously reported that Millian could be a source in the Trump-Russia dossier.
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Earlier this year, Mr. Elias had denied that he had possessed the dossier before the election.
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They ought to look at all of the things that they've done with the phony dossier.
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Cohen also filed a lawsuit against BuzzFeed News for publishing the entire dossier in January 2017.
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The dossier said that Page was trying to help Russia meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
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The dossier portrayed Mr. Cohen as a central figure in what it described as a conspiracy.
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Ohr is linked to the dossier of allegations of possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.
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This further undercuts explosive information in the dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, the former British spy.
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The dossier ends with references to photographs of people who "belong with the aforementioned terrorist group."
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Last month, a federal judge ruled in favor of BuzzFeed in a separate dossier-related lawsuit.
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The RT network was cited in an intelligence dossier about potential foreign intrusions in the election.
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When we published the dossier, I was actually in talks with Ben Smith at the time.
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It's not clear what evidence Trump has linking the FBI to the production of the dossier.
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Weiss pored over the package of raw intelligence provided by Vetrov, known as the Farewell dossier.
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Why then did James Comey, then the F.B.I. director, also introduce the so-called Steele dossier?
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"FBI takes dossier to secret court to get secret warrant to spy on American," tweeted Rep.
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The dossier depicted Mr. Cohen as a central figure in what it described as a conspiracy.
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Steele's dossier had also asserted that Trump could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, among other things.
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Much of the novel amounts to a sort of dossier on the phenomenon of self-slaughter.
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Specifically, they were asked would that dossier count as foreign interference under the House manager standards?
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Cohen's name is also mentioned in the infamous dossier that was compiled on then-candidate Trump.
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But the memo undermines its own argument about the application being overly reliant on the dossier.
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The memo argues that the application for that surveillance warrant was overly reliant on the dossier.
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That research would eventually become part of a dossier of unverified claims linking Trump to Russia.
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The Washington Post first reported last week that Clinton's campaign and the DNC funded the dossier.
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However, Clinton never fessed up to paying for the dossier over months of coverage and speculation.
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Many people I know thrilled to BuzzFeed's publication of a dossier with unsubstantiated allegations about Trump.
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It claims that without the so-called Steele dossier, no surveillance warrants would have been sought.
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This is exactly the position in which President Trump has been placed, regarding the Steele dossier.
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The private intelligence-gathering firm's now-infamous dossier was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
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BuzzFeed News characterized the report as vindication of its decision to publish the Trump-Russia dossier.
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" Ruemmler added: "The discussion that Ambassador Rice documented did not involve the so-called Steele dossier.
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The dossier contains about 12 discussions between senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals, it said.
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In other words, the dossier is a way to supplement — not replace — its own independent investigation.
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BuzzFeed was the first outlet to publish the dossier, which contains salacious allegations, a year ago.
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The documents also show that the FBI was forthright regarding the political motivations of the dossier.
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But if Manafort can shed any light on the dossier memos, investigators would want to know.
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"I've asked the ministry to prepare a dossier on the Roma question in Italy," he said.
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The claims in Steele's dossier are lurid and unproven, but they draw on very real precedents.
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Steele's dossier was at the heart of the controversial memo released this year by Nunes alleging that the FBI sought a surveillance warrant for a Trump associate based in large part on that dossier, without fully revealing that the research had been funded by Democratic sources.
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SECRET FBI SOURCE&aposS ROLE BECOMES DOSSIER-LEVEL FOCUS OF GOP RUSSIA PROBE; FUSION REVISITED As Fox News previously reported, the focus also has led to renewed interest by congressional investigators in August 2017 Senate testimony from Glenn Simpson, whose firm, Fusion GPS, commissioned the dossier.
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The memo alleges that former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele—who prepared the infamous dossier of damaging allegations against Trump—was biased against Trump because the consulting firm that funded the dossier, Fusion GPS, was paid for by a law firm hired by the Clinton campaign.
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Trump and his Republican allies have seized upon the disclosure last month that law firm Perkins Coie paid for the dossier on behalf of its clients, the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, arguing it shows the dossier is a Democratic effort to undermine Trump.
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FBI testimony I reviewed shows agents had just begun checking out the dossier when its elements were used as supporting evidence, and that spreadsheets kept by the bureau during the verification process validated only small pieces of the dossier while concluding other parts were false or unprovable.
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Nunes also claimed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court that granted the warrant against Trump aide Carter Page wasn't informed of the political origins of the funding behind the dossier, though it's been reported that officials had disclosed the political nature of the dossier.
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Yet the research and even the existence of the dossier were not reported by the media, with the exception of Mother Jones magazine, which published a story in the days before the election that described the dossier, its origin and significance, while omitting the salacious claims.
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His ruling called upon the government to answer three questions: when the government obtained the various components of the dossier, when President Barack Obama was briefed on its contents and when the government obtained a two-page portion of the dossier that Steele completed in December 2016.
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"Will Bruce Ohr, whose family received big money for helping to create the phony, dirty and discredited Dossier, ever be fired from the Jeff Sessions 'Justice' Department?" the president wrote in a post on Twitter, accusing Ohr of having direct ties to the so-called Steele dossier.
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Republican lawmakers allege that the FISA warrant obtained to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Page was based in large part on the dossier, and that the judge who approved the application was not made aware to what degree the dossier played a role in the FBI request.
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In an interview with CBS's "Face the Nation," the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman said that while the dossier was not the only information the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court used to obtain the warrant, it would not have been acquired without the dossier.
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"Even though the Dossier included many harmful allegations about Plaintiffs and Alfa, and even though Buzzfeed expressly acknowledged the unverified and potentially unverifiable nature of the Dossier's allegations, Buzzfeed published the unredacted Dossier and the Article anyway — without first affording the Plaintiffs an opportunity to address the unverified allegations made against them and against Alfa in the Dossier," wrote Alan Lewis and John Walsh, lawyers from the law firm Carter Ledyard and Milburn, who are representing the bank owners.
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CNN broke the story, but, unlike BuzzFeed, did not publish the 35-page dossier, Tapper pointed out.
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The dossier included salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's connections to Russia and those of his associates.
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And it would have been interesting if they had actually shown the FISA judges, the dossier itself.
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FREEMAN: But one thing that does come through is, it appears the dossier was central to it.
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And, of course, McCabe with the dossier, and, of course, he was relieved of duty as well.
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Other bizarre stories in the so-called Trump Dossier, first published by Buzzfeed, have since been confirmed.
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Is there any reason to believe the FBI was probing a Trump-Russia angle before the dossier?
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And that is how did this dossier get from the Clinton campaign and Steele to the FBI?
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They pay for it, they hire attorneys to-- INGRAHAM: Hillary paid for the Dossier, for goodness sake.
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I really worry about how this dossier was used to get a warrant on an American citizen.
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I thought we learned something about how the FBI actually got some details about the Steele dossier?
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Bruce Ohr, the development of this dossier and then how it was funneled back into the FBI.
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There were also claims in the dossier about Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and his Russian ties.
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In addition to interviews, BuzzFeed News also received an extensive yet anonymous dossier and one long email.
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Khan is suing BuzzFeed News over the publication of the so-called Steele dossier, which mentions him.
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They show that President Trump was preoccupied with a salacious dossier compiled by a former British spy.
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Mr. Trump raised it directly in a phone call after BuzzFeed published the dossier, Mr. Comey says.
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Christopher Steel's dossier is at the heart of the golden shower pee tape controversy, DAWS-EE-AY.
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The dossier, first published by BuzzFeed News, alleges links between Russian officials and Trump associates including Page.
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One claim was that a possible source behind the Trump dossier, Sergei Millian, was on the flight.
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You believe an e-mail, it could be crimes and on the dossier we could have crimes.
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You mentioned the law firm and dossier, the $20173 or $10 million that nobody wants to admit.
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In the same way, the allegation over the dossier does involve a potential violation of federal law.
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Meantime, the Washington Free Beacon is trying to get as far away from the dossier as possible.
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His "dossier" had been handed to the local discipline inspection commission, the ruling Communist Party's graft watchdog.
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The Lucent Dossier Experience debuted technology that was originally intended for Michael Jackson's tour before his death.
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And they were all doing the same thing, they were all pushing a funny dossier to wiretap.
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Bensouda took over the dossier in 2010, but did not request a formal investigation until November 2017.
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Reaction to Hillary Clinton and the DNC's involvement in the anti-Trump dossier on 'Journal Editorial Report.
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And then, of course, you have the explosive new details about the phony, fake, salacious news dossier.
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Second, there&aposs the doggie dossier which is about Russian disinformation being used to slander Donald Trump.
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BuzzFeed published Steele's dossier in January 2017, setting off a firestorm of controversy and intriguing many liberals.
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Podesta and Wasserman Schultz made those claims before we learned the Clinton campaign actually funded the dossier.
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It just seems to me that it&aposs obvious that they used the dossier for the intelligence.
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"We cannot anticipate the EU's decision, but the dossier is complete and meets the criteria," Knoche said.
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BAIER: That&aposs not true that the dossier the Christopher Steele worked on was funded by Republicans.
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How many times did you and from (ph) extent did you brief President Obama on the dossier?
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Steele doesn&apost even stand -- he doesn&apost even stand by his own dossier when under oath.
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So, he has obviously had some kind of relationship with Christopher Steele who put together the dossier.
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Not only did Comey and his confederates used what they knew was a fake document, the dossier.
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Brennan said there were items in the dossier that raised his suspicions on whether it was accurate.
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And House Republicans make a move to get more information about that salacious, but unsubstantiated Steele dossier.
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And as you know, the dossier was a campaign op research document put together by Steele himself.
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Four separate warrants, the bulk of information coming from the phony Russian dossier that Hillary paid for.
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HANNITY: -- was the phony Clinton paid for dossier and he is the guy that recommended firing Comey.
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I mean, it&aposs very clear, particularly given, as you said, the connection with the dodgy dossier.
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Trump and others close to him have previously blamed a private intelligence dossier for sparking the inquiry.
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On Tuesday night, BuzzFeed published a dossier full of unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump's ties to Russia.
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Trump called the dossier "fake news" and "phony stuff" during a press conference held at the time.
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Mueller's team met with the author of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier during the summer, per CNN.
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The unverified dossier raised the possibility Trump could have been vulnerable to Russian blackmail during the election.
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U.S. intelligence officials have not verified the document's details, and the dossier appears to contain several errors.
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BuzzFeed published a dossier earlier this week full of unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump's ties to Russia.
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I suspect there are truths contained in this dossier, but it's hard to separate fact from fiction.
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The powerful beings who had taken possession of Johel's amorous dossier required a full year to act.
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John McCain (R-AZ) handed Comey a copy of Steele's dossier in a one-on-one meeting.
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And not long after that, BuzzFeed News posted the dossier, which let the public see it too.
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Shortly after the election, BuzzFeed became the first news outlet to publish a story about the dossier.
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Simpson is one of several involved in the dossier that House GOP lawmakers want to speak to.
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Several details of the dossier have been confirmed, but some of its details have not been verified.
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His ties to a dossier outlining Russian financial and personal links to Trump's campaign are more controversial.
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The firm hired former British spy Christopher Steele to assemble the dossier during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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That made the belated admission that Democrats funded the dossier controversial when it otherwise wouldn't have been.
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" CNN host Don Lemon then asked, "So you didn't leak anything about the dossier to any media?
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The claims in the Steele Dossier are unverified and Trump has denied that such an event happened.
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MacCallum then raised the Steele dossier, which included a number of allegations about Trump's links to Russia.
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Swalwell repeatedly asked MacCallum which parts of the Steele dossier had been proven to not be factual.
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The Mueller investigation systematically went after everyone named in the Steele dossier, using the toughest possible tactics.
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" Trump also said of the revelations about the funding of the dossier: "I think it's a disgrace.
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The video chat would have been Steele's first public appearance since the dossier was published, Politico reported.
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Clinton and other high-level Democrats have denied having knowledge of the dossier prior to its publishing.
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The firm hired former British spy Christopher Steele to assemble the dossier during the 2016 presidential race.
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Some of that research became the now-infamous dossier of allegations about the now-President and Russia.
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The dossier had infuriated both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump by divulging allegedly corrupt dealings between them.
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The letter's authors admitted that they have had no access to the dossier of claims against Ronell.
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Steele was hired by the firm Fusion GPS to create the dossier during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The White House subsequently brought up the testimony, linking it to the dossier, in a press briefing.
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The Washington Post reported in March that Millian could be a source in the Trump-Russia dossier.
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And so much of that dossier was built on the premise of these kind of financial ties.
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"There is a Russia investigation without a dossier," Gowdy said on CBS's "Face the Nation" in February.
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He said he knows of no salacious Russian videos of Trump, as discussed in the Steele dossier.
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The dossier contained salacious allegations about the President during a trip he took to Moscow in 2013.
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Let me tell you where I was on the day the dossier said I was in Prague.
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Democrats fear House investigators are more interested in discrediting the dossier than trying to substantiate its allegations.
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That stemmed from BuzzFeed publishing an unverified dossier claiming Russia sought financial and personal leverage over Trump.
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Orbis [his firm] has landed several new clients as a result of the publicity surrounding the dossier.
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The memo shared Friday does not mention the Steele dossier by name, but does allude to it.
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Khodorkovsky has also funded Dossier Center, another investigative project that is a potential irritant to the Kremlin.
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Intelligence officials have said the dossier was one of several sources of information supporting the Russia investigation.
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" Psy-Group promised to prepare a comprehensive dossier on each of the targets, including "any actionable intelligence.
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The firm, Fusion GPS, was then paid by the Democrats for the research that became the dossier.
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A copy of his so-called Trump dossier was posted publicly on the BuzzFeed website in January.
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BuzzFeed has now blocked out Gubarev's name from the dossier, which is still on the publisher's site.
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While many have criticized the veracity of Mr. Steele's dossier and how it was used by Mrs.
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"Therefore, we don't know officially that we may stay, because that dossier still has to be judged."
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We don't believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.'s investigation into Russian meddling.
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We did not, however, share the dossier with BuzzFeed, which to our dismay published it last January.
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In sum, the collective efforts have led to a whole dossier of troublesome findings in Wansink's work.
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Republicans have criticized the dossier since it was first publicly disseminated when BuzzFeed published it in January.
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Yet some of the Democrats who funded the dossier have been wary of being associated with it.
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Mon dossier est maintenant traité de manière idéale, avec des gendarmes et des policiers attentifs et bienveillants.
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Clinton lawyer Marc Elias vigorously denied to the New York Times that the campaign funded the dossier.
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The claim he visited was originally made in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
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But the memo also undermines its own argument about the application being overly reliant on the dossier.
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"Ohr told the FBI it (the Fake Dossier) wasn't true," Trump said in a series of tweets.
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We now know the FBI used the dossier, in part, to justify wiretapping a former Trump adviser.
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That memo reportedly says that the court was made aware of the political origins of the dossier.
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" He said he probably "never will" like McCain, because "John McCain received a fake and phony dossier.
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And the spread of his dossier in Washington shows how these tactics have spilled into American politics.
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American intelligence officials briefed Mr. Trump on the dossier in January, and it surfaced online soon afterward.
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Apparently, no one thought the Christopher Steele dossier had any substance or was chock full of facts.
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These are topics that the President loves to talk about: the Steele dossier, "Spy-gate," FISA abuse.
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Not only that, but Ohr's wife worked for the company that hired Steele to write the dossier.
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Simpson has said previously he does not believe the dossier was the basis for the FBI investigation.
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It is not clear the extent to which the application for the warrant relied on the dossier.
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The unsubstantiated findings in the dossier were released to media outlets and published by BuzzFeed in January.
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The dossier -- because of its allegations and questions surrounding its origin -- has become an explosive political issue.
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The dossier accused Page of acting as a conduit between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
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And they say that federal officials told the court that the dossier was compiled for political purposes.
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It also showed that Steele's dossier was not the only source it relied on in its applications.
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Later, the DNC and Clinton campaign contracted with Fusion, work that led to the Steele dossier. 12.
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In making this assertion the memo focuses on the "dossier" compiled by former FBI informant Christopher Steele.
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"We knew already that publishing the dossier was in the public interest," spokesperson Matt Mittenthal told CNN.
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A leaked dossier purporting to contain possible Russian blackmail material on Mr. Trump dominated headlines for weeks.
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Following publication, BuzzFeed redacted mentions of Gubarev's company in the copy of the dossier on its website.
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Democrats said McCabe did not claim the FISA application depended on the dossier, which McCabe now corroborates.
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The F.B.I. did cite the dossier to some extent to apply for the wiretap on Mr. Page.
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But Senate leaders said this month they have "hit a wall" in their review of the dossier.
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Steele's dossier contains a number of inflammatory and salacious allegations about Trump and his connections to Russia.
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He also refutes the dossier report claiming he met with Russian officials while in the Czech Republic.
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" Gubarev's complaint uses BuzzFeed's own description of the dossier — "It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors" — as evidence the company acted recklessly when it published it: "In other words, Buzzfeed and Mr. Smith knew for sure only that certain parts of the dossier were untrue.
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ET: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton on new developments in the Trump dossier scandal; Counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway on the looming Mueller Russia indictment and the Trump dossier developments; Alan Dershowitz addresses a Berkeley student newspaper&aposs apology for a cartoon depicting him stomping a Palestinian.
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February 219, 22017: US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier -- US investigators said they corroborated some of the communications with foreign nationals detailed in a 224-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials told CNN.
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While Trump and the White House have long rejected the dossier as an attempt to discredit the presidency, the FBI has corroborated some information in the dossier and used it as justification to obtain a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, CNN has reported.
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" Gubarev's complaint uses BuzzFeed's own description of the dossier — "It is not just unconfirmed: It includes some clear errors" — as evidence the company acted recklessly when it published it: "In other words, BuzzFeed and Mr. Smith knew for sure only that certain parts of the dossier were untrue.
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His attacks began over the weekend, when the president used his Twitter feed to berate Mr. McCain for his role in giving the F.B.I. a dossier of unverified information about Mr. Trump's connections to Russia that was compiled by a former British spy — a dossier the F.B.I. already had.
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It was, after all, Comey who went to the president during the transition seeking a one-on-one meeting to tell him about the inflammatory dossier, but who critically omitted telling the president that the dossier was a product of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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"As part of the discovery process, BuzzFeed is attempting to verify claims in the dossier that relate to the hacking of the DNC — which, the dossier alleges, was done with the support of Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian businessman," BuzzFeed News spokesman Matt Mittenthal told The Hill in a statement.
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Graham stated in the letter that during the 2016 election, the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence communities used a "deeply flawed dossier filled with hearsay and written by a biased, former United Kingdom intelligence officer" — a reference to the so-called Steele dossier — as part of its investigation.
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The memo also attacks the credibility of the dossier itself, citing that corroboration was in its "infancy" when the Page warrant was filed and later assessed as only "minimally corroborated" -- which also does acknowledge that some of the dossier was in fact corroborated, despite Trump's claims it's a hoax.
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The Steele dossier, per Schiff, was used as supporting evidence to further establish that this trip was sketchy.
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It also bears out that the Michael Isikoff Yahoo News article was used to corroborate the Steele dossier.
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So, Fusion GPS, the firm that did the Trump dossier, started to do a smear campaign on me.
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The FBI used the dossier to obtain court approval for starting and then renewing surveillance warrants against Page.
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Many of these companies operate heavily abroad — Apple's supplier dossier lists about 350 addresses in China, for instance.
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"And, of the so-called Steele dossier: "It's a very unusual situation to have opposition research like that.
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Glossier (a play on the word dossier) doesn't rely on celebrity ads or high-profile department store placements.
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But now that some of the smoke has cleared, it is good that the dossier is out there.
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In Bern, a government spokesman said the cabinet had not discussed the Europe dossier at its weekly meeting.
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Also, the special counsel investigation was triggered by Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, not the dossier.
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Steele's dossier contains a number of inflammatory and salacious allegations about Trump and his alleged connections to Russia.
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This is reported in the dossier and was confirmed by an employee who worked there at the time.
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The Steele dossier was partially funded by the Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign for Hillary Clinton.
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BuzzFeed News published the dossier in January, after it was shown to President Obama and President-elect Trump.
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Devin Nunes, a California Republican, had sought bank records from Fusion GPS, which had commissioned the Trump dossier.
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The intelligence report was prepared for the FBI by Christopher Steele, the author of the famous Trump dossier.
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Fusion GPS, the Washington research firm that commissioned the famous Trump dossier, was also hired to conduct research.
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"I've compiled a full dossier on Jamie and handed it to Andre," Soares said at the practise courts.
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The real issue is that this dossier was a big part of the justification for Mueller&aposs probe.
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Steele excelled at the task by assembling the now infamous dossier, with the apparent help of Putin's minions.
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Comey declines, however, to say whether FBI was able to confirm any allegations contained in the Steele Dossier.
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But Trump's public attacks on the FBI are perhaps even more worrying than his lies about the dossier.
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John McCain for "spreading" the Steele Dossier, which alleged an election conspiracy between Trump and the Russian government.
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McCain did confirm in a 2017 interview that he provided the dossier to then-FBI Director James Comey.
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Second, there are the darker possibilities of the sort alleged in the salacious and mostly uncorroborated Steele dossier.
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Both groups purportedly paid millions for research that led to the dossier, The Washington Post reported last week.
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UNINDENTIFIED MALE: How could you -- could you have lead the DNC of being the dark about the dossier?
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So he&aposs gotten himself into a different spot of trouble having nothing to do with the dossier.
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Charles, Indiana: Does the Mueller report include background on the Steele Dossier and its use in FISA subpoenas?
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They didn&apost have FISA warrants based on a Trump dossier against Hillary and lies to FISA warrant.
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Former director of national intel Jim Clapper also told CNN that the dossier was used in the assessment.
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A preface by Patrick Modiano, a Nobel prize-winning author, and a 30-page dossier add further context.
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Why aren&apost we investigating the dirty dossier with Russian lies that were peddled to the American people?
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They used Steele, friend of the Russian oligarch, his dirty dossier, that even he doesn&apost stand by.
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Now he is also someone who is suspected of potentially being one of the sources for the dossier.
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The phony Russian dossier to rig a FISA court application, lying to judges to spy on team Trump.
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And the people behind the dossier, a judge now saying that they need to come clean to him.
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In particular, the Dossier Center&aposs investigation turned up almost no messages about the Trump Tower meeting itself.
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Comey hasn't mentioned the dossier in all his briefings to lawmakers, according to people familiar with the briefings.
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Trump went on to target the anti-Trump dossier and former investigators who exchanged anti-Trump text messages.
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That was communicating about the media having information on the Clinton bought and paid for phony Russian dossier.
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As for the commission, she said it had put too much trust in the story the dossier told.
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The memo alleges that the FBI used the Trump/Russia dossier to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens.
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The dossier alleges that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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CNN reported in February that investigators had corroborated some points in the dossier, but not the salacious details.
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Now that is a very different story than asking about whether the contents of the dossier are accurate.
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" On Clinton and the Russia dossier: "So, it's very interesting, she denied it, her own people denied it.
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Why it matters: We know the dossier is playing a role in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
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The memo claims that "the political origins" of the dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.
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BuzzFeed published the dossier late Tuesday, which alleges Russia's government has compromising financial and personal information about Trump.
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But the Washington Post reported in October that Democrats, including the Clinton campaign, helped pay for the dossier.
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The dossier included reporting on various claims Russians were making about damning information they allegedly had on him.
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The utterly bizarre allegation — which became public by way of Christopher Steele's infamous dossier — has never been confirmed.
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BuzzFeed published the 35-page dossier in full Tuesday, even though many of its claims cannot be verified.
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The dossier, a compiled set of memos, contained unverified and salacious allegations about President Trump's ties with Moscow.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee interviewed Simpson last year about the dossier and Feinstein published the transcript this month.
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The contents of the salacious, 35-page dossier, assembled by Steele, appeared on the website BuzzFeed in January.
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The dossier is a collection of memos that were initially intended as political opposition research, sources tell CNN.
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Finally, as more facts are uncovered, it appears that the so-called Steele Dossier is not completely untrue.
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Steele is the former British spy who compiled the controversial dossier that alleged ties between Trump and Russia.
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The firm hired to produce the dossier -- Fusion GPS -- is refusing to testify before Congress about its involvement.
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