The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped to pay for the research behind a secret dossier on Donald Trump and his alleged ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential election, according to a report from The Washington Post published Tuesday evening.
The outlet, citing unnamed sources familiar with the dossier’s funding, said Mark Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, hired the firm Fusion GPS to conduct the opposition research. Fusion in turn hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to U.S. intelligence agencies.
The research was funded until just before the election, according to the Post report. The Post’s sources said that neither the Clinton campaign nor the DNC directed Steele’s research, and stressed that he was a contractor for Fusion GPS. (SOURCE https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-dnc-russia-dossier-trump_us_59efc1a6e4b0bf1f8836a7c4 )
Now, there are not one, not two but three different investigations, (one from the US Senate and two from the US House of Representatives) started to look into this matter. It has also been widely reported that the Justice Department will lift the gag order on a witness so that he may testify in these investigations and people in the FBI are telling news sources that they will fully cooperate in providing all documentation requested by the various committees.
The drum beat against President Trump continues from Democrats, Republicans and media in concert, but I believe we are seeing what could be a sea-change in the tactics from those applying the levers of power behind the scenes.
To quote Gilbert & Sullivan; “Things aren’t always what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream.”
Perhaps Madam Secretary and Billy Jeff are no longer useful to the real power brokers and are about to be cut loose…
…or maybe not.
