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Senator Grassley's demand letter https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-01-25%20CEG%20LG%20to%20DNC%20(Steele%20Dossier).pdf
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Senator Grassley's demand letter
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Christopher Steele
| Christopher D. Steele | |
|---|---|
| Service | Secret Intelligence Service |
| Active | 1987–2009 |
| Other work | Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd |
| Born | 24 June 1964 [1] Aden, Federation of South Arabia |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Private intelligence consultant |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
Contents
Early life
Christopher David Steele was born in the Yemeni city of Aden (then part of the Federation of South Arabia), on 24 June 1964.[1] His parents, Perris and Janet, had met while working at the Met Office, which is the United Kingdom's national weather service. His paternal grandfather was a coal miner from Pontypridd in Wales.[4] Steele spent time growing up in Aden, the Shetland Islands northeast of Great Britain, and Cyprus, as well as at Wellington College, Berkshire which is a school in Great Britain.[4]He attended Girton College, Cambridge and wrote for the oldest of Cambridge University's main student newspapers, Varsity.[4][5] In the Easter term of 1986, Steele was President of The Cambridge Union debating society,[6][7] and graduated with a degree in Social and Political Sciences in 1986.[8]
Career
Steele was recruited by MI6 directly following his graduation from Cambridge, working in London at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 1987 to 1989.[1] From 1990 to 1992, Steele worked under diplomatic cover as an MI6 agent in Moscow, serving at the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow.[7][9] Steele was an “internal traveller”, visiting newly-accessible cities such as Samara and Kazan.[4]Steele's identity as an MI6 officer was one of 115 names Her Majesty's Government attempted to suppress through a DSMA-Notice in 1999.[10][11] He returned to London in 1993, working again at the FCO until his posting to Paris in 1998, where he served under diplomatic cover until 2002.[9][12][13][14] In 2003, Steele was sent to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan as part of an MI6 team, briefing Special Forces on "kill or capture" missions for Taliban targets, and also spent time teaching new MI6 recruits.[9] By 2006, Steele was heading the Russia Desk at MI6.[4][7][15]
Steele's expertise on Russia remained valued, and he served as a senior officer under John Scarlett, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), from 2004 to 2009.[15] Steele was selected as case officer for Alexander Litvinenko and participated in the investigation of the Litvinenko poisoning in 2006.[9] It was Steele who quickly realised that Litvinenko's death "was a Russian state 'hit'".[15]
Private sector
In March 2009, Steele with his fellow MI6-retiree Chris Burrows co-founded the private intelligence agency Orbis Business Intelligence, Ltd., based in Grosvenor Square Gardens near Buckingham Palace.[16][7] Between 2014 and 2016 Steele created over 100 reports on Russian and Ukrainian issues, which were read within the United States Department of State, and he was viewed as credible by the United States intelligence community.[4]In 2017 Steele established a new company called Chawton Holdings, again with Christopher Burrows.[17]
FIFA research
In 2010, The Football Association, England's domestic football governing body, organized a committee in hopes of hosting the 2018 or 2022 World Cups. In advance of the FBI launching its 2015 FIFA corruption case, members of the FBI's "Eurasian Organized Crime" squad met with Steele in London to discuss allegations of possible corruption in the FIFA.[16][18]2017 Trump dossier (Just a reminder that the so-called Dossier is a FAKE document, one that has placed Christopher Steele under FBI/Justice Department Investigation)
Background and information gathering
In September 2015, the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, retained the services of Fusion GPS, a private Washington D.C. political research firm, to conduct research on several primary Republican Party candidates including candidate Trump. The research was unrelated to Russia and was ended once Trump was determined to be the presidential nominee.The firm was subsequently hired by the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee through their shared attorney at Perkins Coie, Marc Elias. Fusion GPS then hired Christopher Steele [19] to investigate Trump's Russia-related activities.[16] According to CNN, Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee took over the financing of the inquiry into Donald Trump and produced what became known as the Trump dossier.[20]
In July 2016, Steele, on his own initiative, supplied a report he had written to an FBI agent in Rome.[21] His contact at the FBI was the same senior agent with whom he had worked when investigating the FIFA scandal.[9] By early October 2016, he had grown frustrated at the slow rate of progress by the FBI investigation, and cut off further contact with the FBI.[19]
In September 2016, Steele held a series of off the record meetings with journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Yahoo! News, The New Yorker and CNN.[4] In October 2016, Steele spoke about his discoveries to David Corn of the progressive American political magazine Mother Jones. Steele said he decided to pass his dossier to both British and American intelligence officials after concluding that the material should not just be in the hands of political opponents of Trump, but was a matter of national security for both countries.[22] Corn's resulting 31 October article was the first to publicly mention the dossier, although the article did not disclose Steele's identity.[22] The magazine did not publish the dossier itself, however, or detail its allegations, since they could not be verified.[23]
Post-election work on the dossier
The project was no longer of interest to the Democrats, following Trump’s victory in November 2016.[citation needed] (No TRUE citation is possible, because it is a lie - Democrats at the highest levels were involved in every aspect of the Coup Attempt, using the Dossier as their most potent weapon.) Steele continued to work for Fusion GPS on the dossier without a client to pay him.[24] After the election, Steele's memos "became one of Washington’s worst-kept secrets, as reporters—including from The New York Times—scrambled to confirm or disprove them."[24]On 18 November 2016, Sir Andrew Wood, British ambassador to Moscow from 1995 to 2000, met with U.S. Senator John McCain at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, and told McCain about the existence of the collected materials about Trump.[25] Wood vouched for Steele’s professionalism and integrity.[26] In early December, McCain obtained a copy of the dossier from David J. Kramer, a former U.S. State Department official working at Arizona State University.[24] On 9 December 2016 McCain met personally with FBI Director James Comey to pass on the information.[25]
Compromised identity
On 11 January 2017, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Steele was the author of the controversial dossier about Trump, citing "people familiar with the matter."[3] Although the dossier's existence had been "common knowledge" among journalists for months at that point and had become public knowledge during the previous week, Steele's name had not been revealed. The Telegraph asserted that Steele's anonymity had been "fatally compromised" after CNN published his nationality.[19]The Independent reported that Steele left his home in England several hours before his name was published as the author of the dossier, as he was fearful of retaliation by Russian authorities.[19] In contrast, The Washington Post reported that he left after he had been identified earlier in the day by the initial Wall Street Journal report.[27]
Christopher Burrows, director of Orbis Business Intelligence, Ltd., said he would not "confirm or deny" that Orbis had produced the dossier.[28]
On 7 March 2017, as some members of the United States Congress were expressing interest in meeting with or hearing testimony from Steele, he reemerged after weeks in hiding, appearing publicly on camera and stating, "I'm really pleased to be back here working again at the Orbis's offices in London today."[29]
Disclosure and reactions
In early January 2017 a two-page summary of the Trump dossier was presented to President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in meetings with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.[30]On 10 January 2017, BuzzFeed was the first media outlet to publish the full 35-page dossier. In publishing the Trump dossier, BuzzFeed stated that it had been unable to verify or corroborate the allegations.[31] The UK issued a DSMA notice on 10 January 2017, requesting that the media not release Steele's identity,[32] although the BBC and other UK news media released the information in news stories the same day.[10] Trump vigorously denied the dossier's allegations, calling it fake news during a press conference.[33] Vladimir Putin also dismissed the claims.[34]
Ynet, an Israeli online news site, reported that American intelligence advised Israeli intelligence officers to be cautious about sharing information with the incoming Trump administration, until the possibility of Russian influence over Trump, suggested by Steele's report, has been fully investigated.[35]
Former British ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton, read Steele's report. Speaking on Sky News he said, "I've seen quite a lot of intelligence on Russia, and there are some things in it which look pretty shaky." Brenton expressed some doubts due to discrepancies in how the dossier described aspects of the hacking activities, as well as Steele's ability to penetrate the Kremlin and Russian security agencies, given that he is an outsider.[36]
On 15 March 2017, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell raised questions about the dossier. He was concerned about the accuracy of the information, due to the approach taken by Steele to gather it. Steele gave money to intermediaries and the intermediaries paid the sources. Morell said, "Unless you know the sources, and unless you know how a particular source acquired a particular piece of information, you can't judge the information — you just can't." Morell continues to believe that Russia attempted to influence the 2016 U.S.presidential election.[37]
Role in subsequent investigations
In the summer of 2017, two Republican staffers for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence traveled to London to investigate the dossier, visiting the office of Steele's attorney but not meeting with Steele.[38]Steele reportedly revealed the identities of the sources used in the dossier to the FBI.[39] Investigators from Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation team met with Steele to interview him about the dossier's claims.[40][41]
Legal action
In August 2017 lawyers for Russian internet entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, who was mentioned in Steele's dossier, demanded Steele give a deposition regarding the dossier, as part of a libel lawsuit against BuzzFeed News.[42][43][44] Steele objected to testifying but his objections were rejected by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Mancusi Ungaro, who allowed the deposition to proceed.[45][46]Senate Republicans' referral for a criminal investigation
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The referral was met with skepticism from legal experts, as well as members of both parties on the Judiciary Committee.[48] Fusion GPS lawyer Joshua A. Levy said that the referral was just another effort to discredit the investigation into Russian interference in the election and that: "After a year of investigations into Donald Trump's ties to Russia, the only person Republicans seek to accuse of wrongdoing is one who reported on these matters to law enforcement in the first place."[48] Veteran prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg called the referral "nonsense" because "the FBI doesn't need any prompting from politicians to prosecute people who have lied to them."[48] Another former federal prosecutor, Justin Dillon said that "it was too early to assume the letter was simply a political attack". The senior Democrat on the Committee, Diane Feinstein, said that the referral was made without consultation of any Democrats on the committee. A Republican aide said that Grassley and Graham were "carrying water for the White House", but that their actions didn't reflect the views of the committee as a whole, and that other members were upset with Grassley over the matter.[48] Grassley implied that Steele's conduct was equivalent to that of George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn, two Trump aides that pled guilty to lying to the FBI, commenting: "If the same actions have different outcomes, and those differences correspond to partisan political interests, then the public will naturally suspect that law enforcement decisions are not on the up-and-up."[49]
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References
Steele, Christopher David; Second later First Secretary FCO since April 1993; born 24.6.64; FCO 1987; Second Secretary (Chancery) Moscow 1990; FCO 1987; m 1990 Laura Katharine Hunt.
Christopher David Steele: 90 Moscow; dob 1964.
A diplomatic service list published by the British government shows that Steele, 52, was posted to the U.K.'s Moscow embassy in 1990 with the title of "Second Secretary (Chancery)."
Steele, Christopher David; First Secretary (Financial) Paris since September 1998; born 24.6.64; FCO 1987; Second Secretary (Chancery) Moscow 1990; Second later First Secretary FCO 1993; First Secretary Bangkok 1998; m 1990 Laura Katharine Hunt (2s 1996, 1998).
Over a career that spanned more than 20 years, Steele performed a series of roles, but always appeared to be drawn back to Russia; he was, sources say, head of MI6’s Russia desk.
After he left the spy service, Steele supplied the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with information on corruption at FIFA, international soccer's governing body.
Public records show that Steele has set up Chawton Holdings with his business partner and fellow former intelligence officer, Christopher Burrows.
US media names ex-MI6 agent as source of the CNN/BuzzFeed dossier on Trump. UK media gets a D-Notice…
The 35-page document contained several unsubstantiated allegations about Mr Trump, specifically a 2013 trip to Moscow and Mr Steele provided names of the sources of those claims, ABC News reported.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators met this past summer with the former British spy whose dossier on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign spawned months of investigations that have hobbled the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
A Florida federal judge declined Tuesday to allow a British security company director who is widely believed to have compiled a dossier alleging Russia has compromising information on President Donald Trump to intervene in a Russian technology executive's defamation suit against BuzzFeed over the publication of his name in the dossier.
In a shocking move Friday afternoon, GOP Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham referred the so-called “Trump dossier” writer Christopher Steele for criminal investigation. They are referring him to the Justice Department for what they say are potential violations regarding inconsistencies Steele made in statements provided to authorities.
Their letter makes what’s called a criminal referral to the Justice Department, suggesting they investigate the dossier author, former British spy Christopher Steele, for possibly lying to the FBI.
- "Senators urge Trump dossier author probe". BBC News. January 5, 2018. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
External links
- https://orbisbi.com/, home page for Orbis Business Intelligence
Categories:
- 1964 births
- Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
- English people of Welsh descent
- Living people
- People from Aden
- Presidents of the Cambridge Union Society
- Russia–United Kingdom relations
- Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- Secret Intelligence Service personnel
- United Kingdom–United States relations
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