Addeddate 23:10:16 Identifier TrumpIntelligenceAllegations201801 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3132934q Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11. American intelligence agencies issued a report early last year that found Russia attempted to influence the vote by hacking political parties and spreading misinformation.Įarly this month Simpson and his co-founder Peter Fritsch wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times calling on Congress to release the testimony their firm gave in several interviews with lawmakers.ĭemocratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's office unilaterally released Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last August early this month after senior Republicans on the committee issued a criminal referral against Steele. Trump’s presidential inauguration, BuzzFeed published the full text of the Steele dossier, despite the fact that it contained raw, unchecked intelligence. The 35-page dossier, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, containing memoranda alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Simpson spoke with the House committee as part of the congressional Russia investigations that are probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. The dossier was published by BuzzFeed News in January 2017. On January 10, 2017, BuzzFeed News published the Steele dossier, the collection of DNC-funded reports alleging a high-level conspiracy between Trump and Moscow. What Steele-who worked as an MI6 spy in Russia in the 90s and once headed the agency's Russia desk-learned during his probing of his sources in Russia so concerned him that he eventually took his findings to the FBI during the 2016 election.Ī dossier compiled by Steele alleges that Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort and other campaign figures and associates worked with the Kremlin to spread dirt on Clinton. Because the claims in the Steele dossier were at that time unsubstantiated. Read more: Trump-Russia dossier: Republicans, Devin Nunes, want dirt on FBI and Justice to discredit salacious report Almost immediately, as was well reported, BuzzFeed published the full dossier. "As we pieced together the early years of his biography, it seemed as if during the early part of his career he had connections to a lot of Italian mafia figures, and then gradually during the 90s became associated with Russian mafia figures," Simpson said. What the Steele dossier alleged about Michael Cohen visiting Prague The Steele dossier, you will remember, was a months-long research project in which former MI6 agent Christopher Steele dug into. Trump's business career had evolved over the prior decade into a lot of projects in overseas places, particularly in the former Soviet Union, that were very opaque, and that he had made a number of trips to Russia, but said he'd never done a business deal there." The research was then funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign after Trump won the nomination.ĭuring his firm's research, Simpson said that he "increasingly saw that Mr. Simpson's firm was first hired to research Trump by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, during the Republican primaries.
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