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Full Circle – Obama Admin Pushed the Steele Dossier to the FBI

<p>A new book released Tuesday&nbsp&semi;claims an&nbsp&semi;Obama official is responsible for connecting the FBI with Christopher Steele and says the allegations which led to the wiretap on Carter page came from &ldquo&semi;pillow talk&rdquo&semi; with the lover of a Kremlin official&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Russian Roulette<&sol;em> by Michael Isikoff and David Corn points specifically to Obama-era State Department official Victoria Nuland for connecting the FBI with Christopher Steele &&num;8211&semi; the former British spy who compiled the now-infamous Trump dossier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steele&&num;8217&semi;s 35-page dossier contained outrageous criminal charges against President Trump and members of his campaign team&nbsp&semi;and spoke of an&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;extensive conspiracy&rdquo&semi; between the campaign and the Kremlin&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The dossier was brought to the attention of the State Department in July 2016&period; According to Ms&period; Nuland&comma; it was handed to the FBI because it was not in the State Department&rsquo&semi;s purview&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;This needs to go to the FBI&comma; if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation&period; That&rsquo&semi;s something for the FBI to investigate&comma;&rdquo&semi; she told CBS News&period; &ldquo&semi;Frankly&comma; if every member of the &lbrack;Trump&rsqb; campaign who the Russians tried to approach and tried to influence had gone to the FBI as well in real time&comma; we might not be in the mess we&rsquo&semi;re in today&comma;&rdquo&semi; she added&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>This information allows us to complete the full timeline&colon;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Hillary Clinton and the DNC hired Fusion GPS and Steele to write a fake report about Trump<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>The Obama Administration took the fake report and sold it to the FBI<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>The FBI started spying and investigating the Trump campaign based on the fake report&nbsp&semi;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Investigations uncover no proof of Trump-Russia collusion&nbsp&semi;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p><em>Russian Roulette<&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;also explains how Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS facilitated a meeting between Steele and FBI agent Michael Gaeta&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;There were few hoops Gaeta had to jump through&period; He was assigned to the US embassy in Rome&period; The FBI checked with Victoria Nuland&rsquo&semi;s office at the State Department&hellip&semi;Nuland&comma; having found Steele&rsquo&semi;s reports on Ukraine to have been generally credible&comma; gave the green light&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steele later met with Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer&comma; who helped arrange a meeting between Steele and Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal&period; Ms&period; Nuland&comma; who at the time served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs&comma; informed then-Secretary John Kerry about the meeting&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last Monday&comma; House Intelligence Committee Republicans said their 14-month investigation found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the&nbsp&semi;House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Judiciary Committee are currently investigating how Obama officials promoted the Steele dossier&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> This is an amazing scandal that no one seems to want to cover&period; The bias is so plain it&&num;8217&semi;s scary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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