WaEx: Trump dossier author Christopher Steele is seemingly deeply worried about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse investigation being carried out by the Justice Department inspector general.
Matthew Rosenberg, a correspondent for the New York Times and CNN national security analyst, said he has spoken with people in Steele’s orbit who confirmed the British ex-spy is willing to meet with “investigators close to the inspector general investigation.” But Steele is also “incredibly concerned and obsessed that this investigation is going to throw him under the bus,” Rosenberg said Tuesday on CNN.
This week a report from the Times in the United Kingdom said Steele is willing to meet with U.S. officials, but only to discuss his work for the FBI as a confidential source, and wants the United States to get permission from the U.K. government first. The report came out as President Trump was in the country for a state visit.
Quoting sources close to Steele, Rosenberg framed Steele’s thinking as, “‘Look, I was working on this dossier other people were paying for — that the Democrats were paying for. I saw things that seemed frightening to me and alarming. And I went to old contacts at the FBI to tell them. I wasn’t a paid source in this case.’ That’s his view of it.”
Steele’s dossier, which was packed with unverified claims about President Trump’s ties to Russia, formed a key part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications that were used to justify surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Steele was working for Fusion GPS, which received funding through the Perkins Coie law firm from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Steele’s Democratic benefactors were not revealed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Rosenberg said Steele does not think he should be blamed for any actions of the FBI or DOJ and “he was simply helping them out and what they did with it, whether they misused it in a FISA or whatever they did, he had nothing to do with that.”
Rosenberg agreed with this assessment, saying Steele wasn’t part of the FISA process, but was “simply a source of information.” more here
All he has to do is publish his work as a novel. Which is what it was to start with.
Geezuz this “journalist” Rosenberg is sure trying to prime the pump for his client, er….his subject that is, Mr. Steele. If Steele is afraid the investigation is going to throw him under the bus he needs to remember he wasn’t working for the IG when he wrote his pack of lies and innuendo. Now, the Democrats (and members of the DOJ and FBI) are the ones he has to worry about as well as his own testimony.
Cooperate with the Inspector General or we put the word out on the street that you’re planning to rat out Hillary.
“Hey Christopher, It’s a TRAIN not a bus. FI Zz U I’d be much more worried about running into an “old” acquaintance.
The Steele Squeal heard ’round the world!
Stop worrying about the IG and start worrying about the Clintons. Avoid all parks, don’t go out without an escort and have a food taster just to be safe, Mr. Steele.
A wise man in your position would beg the DoJ to be put into protective custody at this point.
How about like those old timey, buddy, prison break films? We’ll chain him (literally) to Julian Assange. And watch the good times. Good times.
A Bus,A Fing Bus. I hope they throw him under a Bomrang Cement Roller.
This dick weed needs the full monty, slapped around and then kicked in the balls and then pissed on by every President Trump supporter (In a Bed of course). He started this shit. Now he wants mercy, screw that,spill your guts or else.
P.Trump has a new friend; and she is the Queen, and she will have no qualms about throwing you to the wolfs.