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The Steele dossier is a collection of unverified intelligence memos compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele while working for Orbis Business Intelligence; it contain...
Hillary Clinton did not "create the Russia collusion hoax" as a single proven, orchestrated false narrative; instead, the record shows a mix of legitimate intelligence concerns about Russian interfere...
The Steele dossier contains dozens of raw intelligence allegations; available reporting shows some individual pieces have partial corroboration (for example, that Carter Page met with a Rosneft repres...
The available reporting shows Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid the law firm Perkins Coie, which in turn hired Fusion GPS, and Fusion GPS later contracted Chri...
The Steele dossier was a collection of unverified intelligence memos produced in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele; investigators and courts have reached mixed conclusions...
The specific “golden showers” allegation in the Christopher Steele dossier was never verified and remains unproven; multiple official reviews and reporting found no corroborating evidence while other ...
The Steele dossier is a collection of opposition-research memoranda compiled in 2016 by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele that alleges a network of contacts, financial ties, and possible compromis...
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...
Fusion GPS was first hired in 2015 by the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon to do opposition research on Donald Trump; later, in April 2016, the law firm Perkins Coie — representing the ...
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;...
U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have examined allegations of Russian “kompromat” and influence tied to Donald Trump for years, including work that informed the Steele dossier and formal U.S. int...
The Steele dossier is a 35‑page set of reports compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, containing unverified allegations of links between Donald Trump’s campaign an...
Fusion GPS first did opposition research on Donald Trump in 2015 for the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon; that engagement ended in May 2016 (Free Beacon funded the earlier work) before...
Christopher Steele is a former British MI6 officer who, working through his firm Orbis Business Intelligence and hired by Fusion GPS, compiled a 35‑page set of intelligence memos in 2016 alleging cont...
Fusion GPS commissioned former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele in June 2016 to investigate possible Russia ties to Donald Trump and supervised the work that produced the 35-page series...
Media organizations made publication decisions about by weighing newsworthiness against verification standards: published in full arguing the document was already circulating at the highest levels of ...
There is no verified evidence that " information to "; reporting documents instances where Trump disclosed or declassified sensitive material and where a former British intelligence officer says his s...
’s campaign and the funded that ultimately produced the by hiring , which retained and led to hiring ex‑British intelligence officer ; this funding relationship has been reported by multiple outlets a...
’s 2016 campaign and the funded opposition research that led to the by routing payments through the law firm to , which then retained former British spy to produce the dossier . Regulators later found...