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Undated: Christopher David Steele
(born 24 June 1964) is a British former
intelligence officer with the
Secret Intelligence Service MI6 from 1987 until his retirement in 2009. He
ran the Russia desk at MI6 headquarters in London between 2006 and 2009. In 2009
he co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, a
London-based
private intelligence firm.
He authored
a dossier that claims Russia collected a file of
compromising
information on
U.S. President
Donald
Trump.[2][3]
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have falsely claimed that
U.S. intelligence community probes into Russian interference in the 2016
election were launched due to Steele's dossier.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele
-- 2017 --
March 30: How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele
Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier
The man behind the infamous dossier that raises the
possibility that Donald Trump may be vulnerable to Kremlin blackmail is Russia
expert Christopher Steele, formerly of M.I.6. Here’s the story of his
investigation.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele
October 25:
The Trump Dossier: What We Know and Who Paid for It
Campaigns and party committees frequently pay companies to assemble
what’s known in politics as opposition research — essentially damaging
information about their opponents — and nothing is illegal about the practice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html
-- 2018 --
June 15: Trump dossier author Christopher
Steele fights defamation case
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44502547
July 26: How Hillary Clinton used the
anti-Trump Russia dossier during the campaign
The dossier emerged again as a Washington hot topic in recent days with the
release of four
FBI applications to a judge to spy on a Donald Trump volunteer. The
petition’s evidence to convince the judge was largely based on the dossier.
With the application’s release, President
Trump took to
Twitter to declare the 35-pages a “Clinton campaign document.”
Some pundits and a fact-checkers asserted that the Clinton campaign never used
Mr. Steele’s
Russia charges.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/26/hillary-clinton-used-christopher-steeles-trump-rus/?utm_source=GOOGLE&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=chacka&utm_campaign=TWT+-+DSA&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrNzc0_y-3wIVlIJpCh2igAFmEAMYAiAAEgJi5vD_BwE
August 3: FBI releases documents showing
payments to Trump dossier author Steele
The 71 pages of correspondence with former British spy Christopher Steele are
heavily redacted.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/fbi-releases-documents-showing-payments-trump-dossier-author-steele-n897506
August 3: 12 times Christopher Steele fed
Trump-Russia allegations to FBI after the election
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/12-times-christopher-steele-fed-trump-russia-allegations-to-fbi-after-the-election
August 6: Why the Trump Tower meeting may
have violated the law — and the Steele dossier likely didn’t
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/06/why-the-trump-tower-meeting-may-have-violated-the-law-and-the-steele-dossier-likely-didnt/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4bd4e3b02ea2
August 21: Author of Trump-Russia dossier
wins libel case in US court
Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge
The former MI6 officer
Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three
Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations made in his dossier about the
Trump campaign and its links with Moscow.
The oligarchs –
Mikhail Fridman,
Petr Aven and
German Khan – claimed that Steele and his intelligence firm, Orbis, defamed
them in the dossier, which was leaked and published in early 2017. The Russians
own stakes in Moscow-based
Alfa Bank. All are billionaires.
On Monday, a judge in the District of Columbia, Anthony C Epstein, upheld a
motion by Steele to have the oligarchs’ case thrown out. Epstein did not
determine whether the dossier – which
Donald Trump has repeatedly dismissed as “fake” – was “accurate or not
accurate”.
But the judge concluded that it was covered by the US first amendment, which
protects free speech. He ruled that the oligarchs had failed to prove a key part
of their case: that Steele knew that some information in the dossier was
inaccurate, and had acted “with reckless disregard as to its falsity”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/21/author-of-trump-russia-dossier-wins-libel-case-in-us-court-christopher-steele
August 28: Devin Nunes’s Curious Trip to
London
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee flew to London to gather intel
on Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled the
dossier alleging Trump-campaign ties with Russia. But MI5, MI6, and GCHQ didn’t
seem interested.
According to two people familiar with his trip across the pond who requested
anonymity to discuss the chairman’s travels, Devin Nunes, a California
Republican, was investigating, among other things, Steele’s own service record
and whether British authorities had known about his repeated contact with a U.S.
Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr. To that end, Nunes requested
meetings with the heads of three different British agencies—MI5, MI6, and the
Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. (Steele was an MI6 agent until
a decade ago, and GCHQ, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the National Security
Agency, was the first foreign-intelligence agency to pick up contacts between
Trump associates and Russian agents in 2015, according to
The Guardian.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/devin-nuness-curious-trip-to-london/568699/
August 31: [Justice Department attorney
Bruce] Ohr says Steele told him Russian intel believed they had Trump 'over a
barrel'
Bruce Ohr, who testified behind closed doors this week to the House Judiciary
and Oversight committees, said dossier author Christopher Steele shared the
information with him at a July 2016 breakfast, the source said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/bruce-ohr-christopher-steele-donald-trump/index.html
September 24:
Mueller makes rare mention of Trump dossier author
Prosecutors were responding to an indicted Russian company's complaint that the
special counsel 'selectively' targeted the firm while giving Steele a pass.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/24/mueller-trump-dossier-author-838280
October 10: The retired
British spy who wrote an explosive dossier about President Donald Trump's
alleged ties to Russia broke his silence to criticize Trump and the "distorted"
state of US politics.
The former spy, Christopher Steele, wrote to Vanity Fair shortly after he was
named to the magazine's "2018 New Establishment List." CNN reviewed a copy
of Steele's email, which included his most political comments since his dossier
gained international attention in January 2017.
"In these strange and troubling times, it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to
power, but I believe we all still have a duty to do so," Steele said. "I salute
those on your list, and otherwise, who have had the courage to speak out over
the last year, often at great personal cost."
Steele went on to say, "(A)t a time when governance is so distorted and
one-sided, as I believe it currently is in the United States, the media has a
key role to play in holding it accountable."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/politics/steele-dossier-letter/index.html
November 8: Christopher Steele, the former
MI6 officer
who wrote the Trump dossier, is suing one of Germany’s biggest engineering
companies for allegedly failing to pay for work carried out by his intelligence
firm, Orbis.
Steele and his ex-MI6 business partner Christopher Burrows have taken legal
action against Bilfinger, a global industrial group based in Mannheim,
south-west
Germany. They allege it owes Orbis €150,000 (£130,000) for an investigation
into Bilfinger’s activities in Nigeria.
It is understood that Steele may give evidence in a German court. It would be
his first public appearance since March 2017, when he made
a brief statement and was photographed on the steps of Orbis’s office in
London Victoria.
Steele has kept a low profile since his dossier was published suggesting
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/08/trump-dossier-author-christopher-steele-suing-engineering-firm
November 18: Trump, conservatives demand
probe into Clinton-Steele-Moscow links
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/18/trump-seeks-hillary-clinton-christopher-steele-rus/
December 7: Christopher Steele ...
Giuliani’s Report Will Hit All Of Trump’s Favorite Fox News Conspiracy Theory
Villains
A report promised by the president will try to discredit Robert Mueller using
the same attacks as Fox News hosts and House Republicans.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-mueller-report_us_5c0ab85ce4b035a7bf5aefdc
December 17: Trump-Russia dossier journalist
doubts Christopher Steele's claims
The journalist who was
among the first to report on the Trump-Russia dossier suspects many of the
allegations made in former British spy Christopher Steele's collection of memos
are "likely false.”
Yahoo chief investigative reporter Michael Isikoff was one of the journalists
who met with Steele during the 2016 campaign. On
Sept. 23, 2016, he wrote an article about former Trump campaign foreign
policy adviser Carter Page, which outlined how Page had attracted law
enforcement's attention for allegedly trying to establish back channels between
the campaign and Russia and for discussing the lifting of sanctions with
Moscow-linked officials.
Despite reporting accusations made by Steele, Isikoff told
John Ziegler's Free Speech Broadcasting podcast that many of the claims had
still not been corroborated.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-russia-dossier-journalist-doubts-christopher-steeles-claims
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