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The Spygate ‘Insurance Policy’ Coup Never Had a Chance
Brian Cates
March 17, 2019 Updated: March 17, 2019
On Feb. 28, the federal judge presiding over a libel lawsuit filed by Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev against BuzzFeed News for publishing the so-called “Steele dossier†ordered the unsealing of depositions given by two key Spygate players.
Christopher Steele’s dossier contains within it the claim that Gubarev was a key player in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails during the 2016 election campaign. Although the claim of Gubarev’s involvement turned out to have no evidence to support it, the court ruled in BuzzFeed’s favor because there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate that, in publishing this unverified information, BuzzFeed had acted with “malicious intent†and had deliberately defamed Gubarev.
Aleksej Gubarev
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-spygate-insurance-policy-coup-never-had-a-chance_2841536.html (https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-spygate-insurance-policy-coup-never-had-a-chance_2841536.html)