authorities arrest analyst who steele dossier

Stories of secret servers, Trump staffers meeting with Moscow’s agents in Prague, and with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, secret pee-pee tapes: the list was never-ending. Its damning ‘evidence’ referred to payments from the Russian consulate in Miami, despite there being no Russian consulate in Miami. The subsequent Steele Dossier has since been exposed as a complete fraud – and one that wasn’t even well put together. They didn’t get value for money, it seems. Fusion GPS contracted the work out to former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele. The scandal began, all accounts show, when Democratic contender Hillary Clinton’s campaign hired a private research firm, Fusion GPS, to dig up dirt on its political rival – then-Republican presidential contender Trump.

At the same time, however, it is also a new window into the workings of the so-called ‘deep state’ forces that bought into the lies and wielded them like weapons against Trump’s presidency. The indictment of Igor Danchenko on Thursday is the latest development in the painfully slow unravelling of the conspiracy behind the Russiagate hoax. Now, though, long after he left the White House, the claims have gone from farce to clear falsification. Allegations he was secretly a Russian-backed Manchurian candidate haunted former US President Donald Trump’s time in office.

Authorities arrest analyst who steele dossier