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published by WikiLeaks were a large trove—over 20,000 pages released in serialized batches—that exposed internal communications from and illuminated , fundraising and speech excerpts, and political ma...
The Steele dossier was produced for Fusion GPS, which was paid first by a conservative site during the GOP primary and later by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the...
Available reporting shows Fusion GPS received payments tied to the Clinton campaign and DNC routed through at least one law firm — Perkins Coie — which paid Fusion on behalf of those clients; Congress...
The Steele dossier was a series of raw-intelligence memoranda — 16–17 reports totaling about 35 pages — compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele for Fusion GPS between June and December 2016;...
Michelle Obama and the Obama campaign publicly pushed back against Muslim-related misinformation about Barack Obama by treating the rumors as a political problem and supporting direct rebuttals from c...
Three categories of leaked DNC emails most clearly indicate favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic primary: internal staff suggestions to exploit Sanders’s religious s...
No public record in the provided reporting shows the imposing fines, settlements, or enforcement actions against as a result of ; the most prominent 2019 complaint was dismissed and the FEC closed the...
The Mueller investigation concluded that , combining social-media disinformation and computer intrusions, and that the investigation identified numerous contacts between Russian actors and people asso...
The single most-cited email that ignited the frenzy was a mundane note about a forgotten handkerchief described as having “a map that seems pizza-related,” which investigators on forums read as a code...
is a 2016 collection of memos by alleging ties and kompromat between and ; it was paid for by while working for Democratic clients and published by in January 2017 as unverified “raw intelligence” . T...
The Clinton campaign, together with the Democratic National Committee, played a central financial role in the chain that produced the Steele dossier: campaign and DNC funds flowed to the law firm Perk...
Available reporting shows no clear, direct government contract that commissioned Fusion GPS’s Russia-related research; instead, public accounts say Fusion was initially hired by the conservative Washi...
DOJ and congressional probes criticized handling of the Steele dossier and related 2016–17 Russia‑investigation matters for failures of vetting, inclusion of uncorroborated material in intelligence pr...
Available reporting in the provided sources consistently shows the Steele dossier was commissioned by Fusion GPS and financed, directly or indirectly, by opponents of Donald Trump — notably the Clinto...
Fusion GPS was originally hired in 2016 by a conservative outlet, the Washington Free Beacon, to do opposition research on Donald Trump during the Republican primary; later that year Fusion GPS — via ...
The 2016 DNC email leaks triggered immediate leadership turnover and a sequence of institutional reforms aimed at restoring trust and reducing perceptions of elite control. were the principal changes ...
The core claim — that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are guilty of conspiring to “mess with” Donald Trump to stop him becoming president — is not supported by the weight of official investigations a...
Robert Mueller’s team did reach or publish substantive findings on the Steele dossier’s accuracy or provenance; Mueller repeatedly declined to address the dossier in public testimony, stating it was o...