Emails Place Dossier Author Steele a Step Closer to Clintons

Epoch Times:

WASHINTON—Former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier bearing his name, was introduced by a key State Department aide to top executives of a firm founded by President Bill Clinton’s former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, according to documents made public on June 10 by Judicial Watch.

In multiple email threads included in the documents, Jonathan Winer, then the U.S. Department of State’s special coordinator for Libya, acts repeatedly on behalf of Steele, arranging meetings for him with other current and former top U.S. officials, as well as influential consultants and strategists like those at the McLarty firm.

Steele worked for the Fusion GPS opposition research firm and was paid for the “salacious and unverified” dossier indirectly by the 2016 presidential campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which she then controlled through a cut-out, the Perkins Coie law firm that specializes in representing Democratic Party committees, candidates, and officials.

“These documents show that Fusion GPS and Clinton spy Christopher Steele had a close relationship with the Obama State Department,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The State Department under John Kerry is emerging as another center of the Spygate conspiracy against President [Donald] Trump.”

Winer worked for former Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, Clinton’s successor as secretary of state. One of the email exchanges released by Judicial Watch on June 10 suggests that Steele, under Kerry and through Winer, may have had Clinton connections independent of Fusion GPS.  keep reading