Mueller Met With Trump-Russia Dossier Author Christopher Steele
Special Counsel Mueller succeeded where Senate Intel failed, met with Steel in the summer.
Senate Intel confirmed yesterday they were able to confirm much of Steele’s controversial Trump-Russia dossier, but were unable to continue their work because they have been unable to meet with Steele.
According to Senator’s Burr and Warner, they were able to confirm the dossier up to about June of 2016, but without meetings with Steele, they cannot move forward.
And that’s where today’s bombshell by CNN comes in.
CNN confirmed today that Mueller’s investigators met with Steele over summer meaning the Special Counsel investigation likely has the evidence they need to confirm the rest of the dossier.
As CNN notes, “Information from Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 officer, could help investigators determine whether contacts between people associated with the Trump campaign and suspected Russian operatives broke any laws.”
Reuter’s had reported Wednesday that dossier part of Mueller’s investigation.
More from CNN:
CNN has learned that the FBI and the US intelligence community last year took the Steele dossier more seriously than the agencies have publicly acknowledged. James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, said in a January 2017 statement that the intelligence community had “not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable.”
The intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, and the FBI took Steele’s research seriously enough that they kept it out of a publicly-released January report on Russian meddling in the election in order to not divulge which parts of the dossier they had corroborated and how.
Read the full CNN report here.
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