NYT Report On No Trump-Russia Link Led Steele To Cut Off Contact With FBI

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published JANUARY 9, 2018 3:30 PM

The former British spy behind an infamous dossier alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia apparently broke off communication with the FBI because of a October 2016 New York Times story claiming that no such ties had been found, according to newly released testimony.

Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, who assembled the dossier based on research by the former spy, Christopher Steele, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Times article made Steele feel “concern about what was going on at the FBI.” Simpson’s testimony took place in August. An interview transcript was made public Tuesday.

“There was a concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people and we didn’t really understand what was going on,” Simpson testified, calling the Oct. 31 article “a real Halloween special.”

The Times story reported at a critical moment in the 2016 election campign that the FBI had found no “conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government” during a months-long inquiry. The story has come under fire in light of subsequent reporting, much of it by the Times’ own reporters, detailing contacts between the two.

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[GusBob]

1. Is when Steele bypassed the FBI and McCain ended up seeing the dossier?

And if I recall correctly, intelligence agencies from other countries were aware that something shady was going on and wondering why the FBI wasn't doing anything

That's the one that kicks me in the nuts. Other nations knew our democracy was getting raped and they were trying warn us and the FBI was out to lunch

Mueller better make it right

[mainer]

2. Wow. The NYT looks really, really bad.

They were taken in -- or colluded with -- the Giuliani wing of the FBI.

[Maven]

8. Yes they do, and they STILL have not adequately explained that article

That article alone should be enough to get Dean Baquet shown the door, leaving out all the other terrible hiring and editorial decisions he has made since becoming Executive Editor. It is inexcusable journalistic malpractice and possibly malfeasance.

[Hortensis]

12. A NY Times article about Wilbur Ross back around

the time of his appointment said unmistakably that Ross was not only not involved with Russia and money laundering during his involvement with the Bank of Cyprus but that he helped clean it up and toss the crooked Russians out, or something very close to that. That journalist is the NYT's top Moscow person and is still working for the times. I know because a couple of times in the face of new information I've looked.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Guiliani owns a rogue cabal inside NYC FBI office that fed him lots of secret info & on to tRump. nt

[dhol82]

4. Does that mean that Comey is in this shit up to his eyeballs?

Or was he being played also?
This is appalling information.

[mainer]

5. I want to know: did we have a Judith Miller problem at the NYT?

Someone who just rolled over and did what the Trumpsters wanted?

[ChiTownDenny]

6. Hasn't Lindsey Graham been all over teevee

claiming the FBI and DOJ need to be investigated because of bias in the ranks against the president? In the meantime, just weeks before the election, Comey re-opened a bogus investigation into Clinton's emails...but there is bias in the FBI and DOJ against Trump?

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. No bias against trump, there is factual information that trump is a traitor and the FBI

is trying to deal with that.

[zentrum]

9. Judy Miller.

Reminds me of the Miller episode at the Times. When a reporter carried water for Bush.

[Julian Englis]

10. Is this what tRump means by "failing New York Times"? n/t

[Sancho]

11. That's some fake news...

along with Comey's fake email investigation.

Result: a fake president

[.99center]

13. How many reporters knew the details of Simpson's testimony?

As they allowed republicans to paint the FBI as liberal partisans, did they know there was more evidence of RW hacks in the FBI interfering and obstructing investigations?

Fuck, who am I kidding, the media barely mentioned Comey handing the election to Trump.