Steele dossier source acquitted, in loss for special counsel Durham - The Washington Post

Trump predicted Durham would uncover "the crime of the century" inside the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies that investigated his campaign's links to Russia. But so far, no one charged by the special counsel has gone to prison, and only one government employee has pleaded guilty to a criminal offense. In both trials this year, Durham argued that people deceived FBI agents, not that investigators corruptly targeted Trump...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/18/igor-danchenko-john-durham-verdict/

An “Alternative Mueller Report” (Allison Gill; Mueller, She Wrote podcast)

This week: Mueller Report news; 302 news; Mueller’s Trump, Junior probe news; some Steele Dossier updates; DoJ IS criminally investigating the insurrection; plus some Sabotage and the Fantasy Indictment League.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-q6jby-1178c0f8

Jim Jordan’s lies about the Steele report completely demolished by Fusion GPS founders – Raw Story

Appearing on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” the founders of Fusion GPS, which was behind the Steele report which led to an investigation into Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia, slapped down claims made by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) made during the House Judiciary Committee hearings this past week. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/jim-jordans-lies-on-the-steele-report-completely-demolished-by-fusion-gps-founders/

Watchdog: Steele dossier 'had no impact' on opening of 2016 probe | TheHill

Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz said during a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the dossier prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele did not prompt the original DOJ investigation into members of the Trump campaign.....

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/474113-watchdog-steele-dossier-had-no-impact-on-opening-of-2016-probe

Book Review: In 'Crime In Progress,' Fusion GPS Chiefs Tell The Inside Story Of The Steele Dossier : NPR

There's an unverified story that has circulated placing Donald Trump in the presidential suite of the Moscow Ritz-Carlton in 2013. NPR has not detailed it because it remains unverified. Trump and his supporters have called it outrageous and ridiculous. So where did it come from? ....
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/22/781589327/bosses-of-fusion-gps-tell-the-inside-story-of-the-steele-dossier

The internet pounds Trump for decision to weaponize DOJ: This is 'how the rule of law dies' - Raw Story

Attorney General Bill Barr appointed a U.S. Attorney to investigate the evidence that led to the investigation into Russian collusion. President Donald Trump has said that the entirety of the Russia inquiry had to do with the Christopher Steele dossier. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/the-internet-pounds-trump-for-decision-to-weaponize-doj-this-is-how-the-rule-of-law-dies/

What would Cohen's Prague trip show? Conspiracy against the United States on behalf of Donald Trump - Daily Kos

Like pieces of an intricate puzzle, key elements of the infamous Steele dossier (a series of raw intelligence reports compiled by former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele) and court filings from Special Counsel Robert Mueller have been slowly coming together to reveal a potentially extremely serious criminal conspiracy, perhaps even treason, between the Trump campaign and Russia. ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1821938

Now We Know For Sure: Devin Nunes Lied About Everything - Mother Jones

I was busy/sleepy all weekend (they're sort of the same thing these days) and I didn't get a chance to dig into the just released FISA surveillance application that the FBI filed in 2016 against Carter Page, the goofball "energy analyst" who worked on the Donald Trump campaign in 2016 and was suspected by the FBI of being a target of Russian recruitment. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/07/now-we-know-for-sure-devin-nunes-lied-about-everything/

As Trump’s latest lies implode, one party tries to smuggle out the truth - The Washington Post: Opinion

Democrats have been trying to correct Trump's falsehoods, and newly released documents confirm they've been telling the truth. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/07/23/as-trumps-latest-lies-implode-one-party-tries-to-smuggle-out-the-truth/

In one tweet, Trump reveals nearly everything he gets wrong about the Mueller investigation - The Washington Post: Analysis

The surveillance of Carter Page is not the originating cause of Trump's primary headache. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/23/in-one-tweet-trump-reveals-nearly-everything-he-gets-wrong-about-the-mueller-investigation/

Devin Nunes calling for a 'task force' to investigate officials and activists who exposed Russian election meddling - Raw Story

California Republican Devin Nunes is doubling down on efforts to go after the people who investigated Donald Trump's collusion with Russia in the 2016 campaign, the Washington Times reports.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/devin-nunes-calling-task-force-investigate-officials-activists-exposed-russian-election-meddling/

Trump Falsely Claims Russia Investigation Started Because of Steele Dossier - The New York Times

President Trump has repeatedly pointed to the findings of a House Intelligence Committee report to insist his campaign did not collude with Russia. But that same report concludes that the inquiry began with a diplomat's tip about a Trump campaign adviser — not the salacious findings of a former British spy.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/us/politics/fact-check-trump-russia-investigation-steele-dossier.html

Wait. Have We Been Paying Attention to the Wrong Trump Tower Meeting? - Slate

A new book by two veteran journalists adds yet another layer to the pee tape story (and, yes, sheds light on the Trump–Russia relationship). ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/david-corn-and-michael-isikoff-on-their-las-vegas-revelations.html

Journalist Charts The 'Bizarre Twists And Turns' Of The Trump-Russia Dossier (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)

As the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election continues, more and more attention has focused on the infamous Russia dossier on Donald Trump compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

NPR has not detailed the contents of the dossier because it remains unverified, but journalist Jane Mayer has written a cover story about its origins for The New Yorker. Although Trump and his allies have sought to portray the 35-page dossier as Democratic-funded propaganda, the work that led to its creation initially started with Republicans themselves.

A GOP financier approached the private intelligence firm Fusion GPS to begin work researching Trump, but then discontinued that support. Later, after it was clear that Trump would be the Republican nominee, a law firm connected to the Clinton campaign began funding the work. Mayer says that Steele never knew precisely for whom he was ultimately working.

"The argument being made by the Republicans these days in Congress is that it was a huge conspiracy of the Clinton campaign with Christopher Steele," Mayer says. "But, in fact, if you really go back and look at the facts, Christopher Steele didn't know for months that he was working for the Clinton campaign — and the Clinton campaign never learned that Christopher Steele was on their payroll until it was in the press."

In her latest article, Mayer describes how the dossier was compiled and why so little was done about its findings during the campaign — even after Steele shared his information with the FBI.

She also reports on a short memo written in November 2016 alleging that a Russian source claimed to Steele that Moscow had intervened to block Trump from nominating Mitt Romney as secretary of state because he was perceived as being unfriendly to Russian interests.

If that memo is true, Mayer says: "It would be an unbelievable interference by a foreign power in picking and shaping [and] influencing the choice of the top foreign policy person in this country. It would mean that there was interference by Russia not just during the election but since the election, after the election, over a president."

There are no indications of how Russia might have exerted the influence about which one person boasted to Steele, according to Mayer. Romney declined to comment to Mayer. Mayer reports that the White House denied Romney was ever a first choice for secretary of state and it "declined to comment about any communications that the Trump team may have had with Russia on the subject."
Interview:
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/06/591130207/journalist-charts-the-bizarre-twists-and-turns-of-the-trump-russia-dossier

Dossier author reportedly told Mueller that Russia asked Trump not to name Romney secretary of State - CNBC

Russia instead advised Trump to pick someone who would ease sanctions against Ukraine, the New Yorker magazine reports.....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/05/trump-dossier-author-reportedly-warned-russia-influenced-cabinet-picks.html

A Series of Revelations About Jared Kushner Have Added Further Credence to a Key Claim in the Steele Dossier - Slate

Jared Kushner had a very bad week. So bad in fact, it was hard to keep track of how many bad stories there were. ...
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/a-series-of-revelations-about-jared-kushner-have-added-further-credence-to-a-key-claim-of-the-steele-dossier.html

5 Takeaways From the Release of the Democratic Memo -- The New York Times

The Democratic memo released on Saturday was written to counter Republican claims that law enforcement officials had abused their powers. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/politics/takeaways-democratic-memo.html

Democratic memo: FBI was investigating Trump campaign associates weeks before receiving dossier -- POLITICO

It's a counterweight to a GOP memo that Trump declassified three weeks ago, claiming that FBI officials misled a secret court to obtain a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign adviser. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/24/democratic-memo-gop-fbi-trump-campaign-423446

Trump’s lawyer attacks Senate intel Republicans: They're 'covering’ for top Democrat's Russia texts -- Raw Story

Donald Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow on Friday accused Republicans of "covering" for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) after a series of leaked text messages showed the ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee tried to contact dossier author Christopher Steele. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/trumps-lawyer-attacks-senate-intel-republicans-theyre-covering-top-democrats-russia-texts/

Did Hillary Clinton collude with the Russians to get ‘dirt’ on Trump to feed it to the FBI? - The Washington Post

During the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — and possible collusion by members of the Trump campaign — defenders of the president have often sought to turn the tables on Democrats. A perfect summing-up of this approach can be found in the statement above by Nunes, who described it as “a massive cover up of a major scandal that reached the highest levels of our government.”...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/02/09/did-hillary-clinton-collude-with-the-russians-to-get-dirt-on-trump-to-feed-it-to-the-fbi