DC: Dossier author Christopher Steele identified a former Russian spy chief and a top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin as being involved in handling potentially compromising information about President Donald Trump, State Department notes show.
In her notes, State Department official Kathleen Kavalec also referred to the two Russians — former Russian foreign intelligence chief Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Putin aide Vladislav Surkov — as “sources.”
The references to Trubnikov and Surkov, which have not previously been reported, are not definitive proof that either were sources for Steele’s dossier or that they were involved in an effort to collect blackmail material on Trump.
But the notes are significant because they are the first government documents that show Steele discussing potential sources for the information in his dossier, which the former MI6 officer provided to the FBI.
Trubnikov also has links to Stefan Halper, an FBI informant who collected information from Trump campaign aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page. Halper arranged for Trubnikov to visit intelligence seminars at the University of Cambridge in 2012 and 2015. He also tapped Trubnikov to contribute to a Pentagon study published in 2015. more here
“…Steele discussing potential sources for the information in his dossier…”
What the hell does that mean?
I can only guess that’s it strange that the names only appear this one time. If they where important players in the Steele plot, you would think the names would be in other documents. Perhaps he is just throwing them out because the story is being made up as he goes along creating it on the fly.
As we all know the first liar doesn’t stand a chance!
So if they were feeding Trump dirt to Steele, then the Russians were trying help Hillary. Steele was paid by HRC channels, collects dirt on Trump from Russians….hmmmm seems like Russians were aiding HRC.
I was convinced in 2016 that Russia would much rather HRC in White House than Trump. It’s amazing that nobody in politics or media really talks about the logic or lack thereof that HRC was compromised aND Russia could control her to a large degree because of her past Reset failure and all the goods they had on her.
@jp May 17, 2019 at 12:09 pm
> I was convinced in 2016 that Russia would much rather HRC in White House than Trump.
Not rather her as President. She is vile and corrupt. The Democratic Party is (and was) clearly corrupt. (Their acceptance of her vileness, as the cost of their own corruption? I’ll leave that to discuss amongst yourselves.)
Showing the United States’ voters exactly how bad everybody who’s job was to tell them what to think, already knew she was, was a win/win for hobbling The United States. For a while. If Hillary won, the illegitimacy of the election would derail big scope projects. If Trump won, the propaganda of illegitimacy would derail big scope projects. Tossing a golden apple into a riot of those that already call you enemy has no downside.
Yep blame what you did on your opponent that you lost to. The liberal way….