Christopher Steele alerted FBI to dossier because he worried Trump was being blackmailed

[DonViejo]

TRAVIS GETTYS
09 JAN 2018 AT 13:34 ET

A former British spy handed over his research dossier to the FBI in July 2016 because he feared the Republican Party was about to nominate a candidate who was being blackmailed.

Christopher Steele had been hired by opposition research firm Fusion GPS to look into Donald Trump’s background, and what he found so alarmed him that he alerted U.S. law enforcement.

“He thought from his perspective there was an issue — a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed,” said Glenn Simpson, head of Fusion GPS. Simpson testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Aug. 22, but Democrats and Republicans have wrangled over whether transcripts should be released.

Fusion GPS and its lawyers have called for their release, but the GOP majority resisted — until Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) leaked the lengthy transcript Tuesday.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/christopher-steele-alerted-fbi-to-dossier-because-he-worried-trump-was-being-blackmailed/

[SunSeeker]

1. A Brit cared more about America than anyone in the Trump campaign.

[BoneyardDem]

4. A Brit cared more than any sitting Republican

those "patriots" should be mightily ashamed

[SharonAnn]

2. And it's still happening!

[wishstar]

3. Meanwhile Trump and Co. failed to disclose Russian contacts to FBI and lied for months about it

and several Trump officials were either paid by pro-Russian operatives or hoping for business deals by cooperating with Russia, especially if they could get sanctions lifted.

[Turn CO Blue]

5. Should not be termed a "leak" She unilaterally and transparently RELEASED the transcripts - openly.