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2019-11-09 Britain

Christopher Steele: Russians cultivating Tories and Boris Johnson for . . . five years.

[The Guardian via Rolling Stone] Fresh evidence has also emerged of attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating leading Tories including Johnson himself....

The committee’s report is based on analysis from Britain’s intelligence agencies, as well as third-party experts such as the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele....

Christopher Steele became famous in the United States as the author of a "dossier" that claimed Russians had been "cultivating, supporting, and assisting" Donald Trump "for at least 5 years."

Now Steele is back, claiming that the Russians have been cultivating the Tories and Boris Johnson for . . . five years.

You can’t make this stuff up. The only thing comparable would be Iraqi defector Ahmed Chalabi lobbying for a sequel invasion after the WMD hunt came up empty, and having the same humiliated media figures and politicians reach for pompoms all over again.

Steele first appeared in connection with the Trump story as a "well-placed Western intelligence source" in a 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff. The piece claimed a Trump aide named Carter Page was discussing the lifting of sanctions with Igor Sechin, chief of the major Russian oil company Rosneft.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-09 03:39|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 I don't know why States are so hesitant to just kill off major troublemakers and opportunists like these. It doesn't matter to anyone living in the following week anyway, news of their passing becomes another 'what if' for the tabloids. I think Steele just avoided the polonium tea with this. The UK gummint will go to any length to protect him now.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-09 04:07|| 2019-11-09 04:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Serve your Deep State well, and you will live.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-09 06:21|| 2019-11-09 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 One trick pony?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-09 06:58|| 2019-11-09 06:58|| Front Page Top

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-11-09 08:21|| 2019-11-09 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Go away, clown.
Haven't your lies and general idiocy caused enough damage?

Posted by Lex 2019-11-09 08:51|| 2019-11-09 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #5: Little chance of that. He owns a thriving international disinformation business.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-09 08:59|| 2019-11-09 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 He could be right, he could be full of crap, but like the boy who cried wolf, he will never be listened to again...

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-11-09 09:01|| 2019-11-09 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 In that case, an Epstein treatment's required.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-09 09:31|| 2019-11-09 09:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Only five years? The Russians have been cultivating Labour since the 1930s, almost a century earlier, and the same for the Democrats. In Barack Obama’s circle, for instance, the question is whether it was your parents or your grandparents who were the first to meet at a Communist Party meeting.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-09 10:41|| 2019-11-09 10:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes, tw, red diaper doper babies.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-09 13:06|| 2019-11-09 13:06|| Front Page Top

#11 "Maybe if we built a giant wooden badger....."

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-11-09 14:06|| 2019-11-09 14:06|| Front Page Top

#12 The committee’s report is based on analysis from Britain’s intelligence agencies, as well as third-party experts such as the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele

Seriously? Anyone who quotes Mr. Steele throws away all credibility. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, after all.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-09 17:30|| 2019-11-09 17:30|| Front Page Top

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