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Steele Dossier Sources

Investigation into the sources of information for Christopher Steele's dossier, particularly regarding the 2016 election and criminal justice reporting.

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Jan 17, 2026
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Who paid for the Steele dossier and how did funding flow between Fusion GPS and its clients?

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...

Jan 27, 2026
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Steele dossier

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...

Jan 22, 2026
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Trump selling british information to russia

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...

Feb 1, 2026

How did the Mueller report assess the accuracy of the Steele dossier’s claims?

The report treated the as one piece of raw reporting—not a foundational corroborated source—and largely did not confirm its most sensational allegations; Mueller’s team noted passing overlaps with bro...

Jan 31, 2026

What does the September 18, 2020 HPSCI majority report actually say, line‑by‑line?

The archived record does not contain a publicly available, annotated “line‑by‑line” text of an majority staff report dated September 18, 2020, that can be reproduced here; public reporting instead doc...

Jan 23, 2026

How did media organizations decide whether to publish or cite the Steele dossier in 2016–2018, and what debates followed that choice?

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 ...

Feb 5, 2026

What has been proven about Clinton involvement in Russia Hoax

What has been proven is limited: intelligence and law-enforcement records show that in 2016 agencies received unverified intelligence alleging a Clinton-campaign “plan” to tie to , but those threads w...

Feb 3, 2026

What is the full Steele dossier about?

is a 35‑page collection of short intelligence memoranda compiled by in 2016 alleging contacts, kompromat and coordination between and ; it was produced as raw, unvetted human‑intelligence reporting ra...

Feb 1, 2026

Did Barack Obama order the CIA to manufacture false intelligence on Donald trump

There is no verified, contemporaneously documented evidence in the provided reporting that personally ordered the to manufacture false intelligence about ; recent allegations are being advanced primar...

Jan 5, 2026

Which specific Steele dossier allegations were corroborated by intelligence agencies and media investigations?

Intelligence agencies and subsequent prosecutions corroborated only the dossier’s broad, non-specific claims that Russia mounted an active operation to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election and that sto...