Christopher Steele believes his dossier on Trump-Russia is 70-90% accurate

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Christopher Steele believes his dossier on Trump-Russia is 70-90% accurate

The respected ex-MI6 officer told Guardian journalist and author Luke Harding that his FBI contacts greeted his intelligence report with ‘shock and horror’

Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday 15 November 2017 16.52 GMT

Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled an explosive dossier of allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, believes it to 70% to 90% accurate, according to a new book on the covert Russian intervention in the 2016 US election.

The book, Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by Guardian journalist Luke Harding, quotes Steele as telling friends that he believes his reports – based on sources cultivated over three decades of intelligence work – will be vindicated as the US special counsel investigation digs deeper into contacts between Trump, his associates and Moscow.

“I’ve been dealing with this country for thirty years. Why would I invent this stuff?” Steele is quoted as saying.

One of the reasons his dossier was taken seriously in Washington in 2016 was Steele’s reputation in the US for producing reliable reports on Russia, according to Harding’s book.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/christopher-steele-trump-russia-dossier-accurate

[Gothmog]

1. A significant percentage of the Steele Dossier has been verified

[Calista241]

2. What points have been verified?

I mean, basically we know he was in Russia, and he probably stayed at a hotel. But what “embarrassing” parts of the dossier have been verified?

[Hortensis]

3. Only part of the dossier was released through David Corn

to the media (AFTER Steele released initial portions to the FBI through his contacts there, WHICH DID NOT CONTACT STEELE AND REFUSED TO INVESTIGATE THEM).

According to people who have had access, there are a number of serious items we haven't heard of yet, including claims of espionage and other illegal activities. As for exactly which have been verified? Mueller will eventually release a report.

Supposedly 50-90% is for this kind of raw intelligence is considered "high confidence." Christopher Steele own evaluation, based on FBI and intelligence agency confirmations to this point, of 70-90% means he's personally pleased with the quality of the intelligence he gathered.

On the salacious, but also compromat, side, it's established that the KGB's hospitality did extend to offering prostitutes to Rump. Also that his bodyguard on one specific night in question saw him to his room at 10 p.m. and went to bed for the rest of the night. Whether the urination thing's true, probably Mueller has a good idea by now, though whether the people who would have had to clean Trump's mess up would be talking...? Who knows?

Putin might even be giving Mueller some freebees on some of these things. Would anyone put it past him to take Trump down to create further disruption and demoralization in the U.S.?

Fwiw, the dossier is apparently just a peripheral document, not actually central to the investigation, which has far more, and stronger information from our own and foreign intelligence services.

[JonLP24]

4. I want that book so bad!!