John Durham and the Steele Dossier
Indicted Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann shrewdly set in motion the use of Christopher Steele of dossier infamy to spread word of supposed Trump–Russia collusion.
by George Parry
November 2, 2021, 10:49 PM
This is the seventh in a series of articles analyzing the federal grand jury indictment charging lawyer Michael Sussmann with making a materially false statement to FBI General Counsel James Baker. The indictment spelled out Sussmann’s involvement in a thus-far uncharged conspiracy to create a false narrative that was calculated to demonstrate a secret channel of internet communications between the Trump Organization and the Russian Alfa Bank.
As discussed in previous articles, the indictment avers that Sussmann and his law firm, Perkins Coie, presented the Trump–Alfa Bank hoax to the FBI’s General Counsel, the CIA, and the media.
But Sussmann didn’t stop there. Former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele has testified under oath that Sussmann told him about the alleged secret communications channel and the Alfa Bank’s purported ties to the Kremlin.
Steele, of course, is the author of the eponymous “Steele Dossier,” which the Obama-era FBI and Justice Department used to obtain FISA warrants to spy on members of the Trump presidential campaign. The dossier consists of 17 now-discredited reports written by Steele at various times, which collectively allege that Trump was subject to blackmail by the Kremlin and that his campaign operatives were conspiring with the Russians to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
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