Former Presidential Candidate Under NEW Investigation
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investigating former Secretary of State John Kerry over his possible role
in the unverified anti-Trump dossier at the heart of the FBI's Russia probe.
The documents, colloquially known as the Steele Dossier, after Christopher
The documents, colloquially known as the Steele Dossier, after Christopher
Steele, the ex-British spy behind it – was funded by the Democratic National
Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign.
The Committee began quietly digging into Kerry's connections after a former
The Committee began quietly digging into Kerry's connections after a former
colleague and friend published and an op-ed in the Washington Post detailing
his friendship with Steele.
Carter explains:
Carter explains:
Jonathan Winer, a long-time colleague of Kerry and who served as the
former envoy for Libya during his tenure at the Department, wrote an
opinion piece in the Washington Post on Feb. 8, defending his relationship
with Steele and his role in the infamous dossier.
Winer attempted to pre-empt questions that the committee would ask
regarding his role by admitting in his article that he was a long-time friend
of Steele. He also established his close working relationship with Kerry
saying, “in 2013, I returned to the State Department at the request of
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, whom I had previously served as Senate
counsel.”
But information uncovered by the Senate Judiciary Committee and revealed
in its criminal referral of Steele to the Department of Justice that several
Clinton allies were also connected to the State Department and the dossier.
Sidney Blumenthal, a close confidant of Hillary Clinton, and Cody Shearer,
a former journalist who went on to work for the Clintons, appeared to be
feeding Steele information.
Winer said in his op-ed that “in late September, I spoke with an old friend,
Sidney Blumenthal, whom I met 30 years ago when I was investigating
the Iran-contra affair for then-Sen. Kerry and Blumenthal was a reporter
at The Post. At the time, Russian hacking was at the front and center in
the 2016 presidential campaign. The emails of Blumenthal, who had a
long association with Bill and Hillary Clinton, had been hacked in 2013
through a Russian server.
Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/former-presidential-candidate-under-new-investigation#wIqwFKGqKKit82PZ.99
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