The Utter Bogusness of the Steele Dossier, A Devastating Dissection by Aaron Maté
Channel: Jason Zenith
Date: 2019-09-03

Journalist Aaron Maté, speaking to Jimmy Dore, tears to shreds the so-called "Steele Dossier." The Steele Dossier began life as a paid piece of "opposition research" that was contracted for by a Republican Party rival of Donald Trump's for the Republican 2016 presidential nomination, and then picked up and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign through a cutout organization which paid a shadowy company, Fusion GPS, for dirt on Trump.

Christopher Steele was a career officer of MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA, before going to work at Fusion GPS. A professional propagandist, he compiled a report of slurs and innuendos against Trump. He claimed as his sources Kremlin officials and Russians with Kremlin connections. MI6 has a history of disinformation and propaganda campaigns, much of it aimed at left-leaning British politicians.

The most lurid, and facially absurd, accusation in the report was that Trump paid Russian prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow that supposedly the Clintons had slept on, and that the Putin regime had video of this event which they were using to blackmail Trump to do their bidding.

U.S. secret police agencies the FBI and CIA then planted this propaganda in U.S. media after Trump was elected, before he was even sworn into office, as part of their campaign to undermine Trump.

The Dossier was also the main basis for obtaining a warrant from the secret, rubber-stamp U.S. FISA court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to do a "counterintelligence investigation" of U.S. citizen Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser in the Trump presidential campaign, treating him as a foreign spy.

Among the points Maté makes in his refutation of the Steele dossier are these:

-The Dossier claims Putin has been cultivating Trump since Trump hosted the TV show "The Apprentice."

-The Dossier smears Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein as a Russian agent.

-All the information in the Dossier was first reported in public media.

-Steele doesn't speak Russian and hasn't been in Russia since around 2002.

-There are sloppy omissions that one would have expected Steele to use to make his case.

Given the dubious nature of this "dossier," the Democratic Party, their media accomplices, and the Deep State anti-Trump elements have turned to another report to use as a weapon against Trump, the Mueller Report, the result of a two and a half year investigation into the Trump campaign by special counsel Robert Mueller, formerly chief of the FBI secret police under Bush II and Obama.

Aaron Maté used to work at Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman's program, and subsequently writes for The Nation magazine.

Maté was interviewed by Jimmy Dore, "Collusion Author Can’t Say Where Collusion Is!," The Jimmy Dore Show, January 18, 2018. Full interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDo0OSAg9s