Post by ck4829 on Jan 15, 2017 15:00:17 GMT
Christopher Steele 'frustrated' by spy services inaction before leaking Trump 'dirty dossier'
Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who investigated President-elect Donald Trump's alleged links to Russia, "was frustrated" at the inaction of intelligence agencies he handed his dossier to, it has been reported.
Steele, now a director of London-based Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, was hired both by Republicans and Democrats to dig up dirt on Trump in the run-up to the US election.
But after he decided the information he was receiving was "sufficiently serious", he passed on his findings to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and, later, MI6.
After months of uncertainty as to how seriously the FBI was taking his dossier, Steele told American publication Mother Jones about his findings, believing it was of sufficient public interest.
"This was something of huge significance – way above party politics," he said. "I think [Trump's] own party should be aware of this stuff as well."
At the time, the FBI seemed to be more preoccupied with investigating the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her handling of private email servers during her time as the US secretary of state.
www.ibtimes.co.uk/christopher-steele-frustrated-by-spy-services-inaction-before-leaking-trump-dirty-dossier-1601074
Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who investigated President-elect Donald Trump's alleged links to Russia, "was frustrated" at the inaction of intelligence agencies he handed his dossier to, it has been reported.
Steele, now a director of London-based Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, was hired both by Republicans and Democrats to dig up dirt on Trump in the run-up to the US election.
But after he decided the information he was receiving was "sufficiently serious", he passed on his findings to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and, later, MI6.
After months of uncertainty as to how seriously the FBI was taking his dossier, Steele told American publication Mother Jones about his findings, believing it was of sufficient public interest.
"This was something of huge significance – way above party politics," he said. "I think [Trump's] own party should be aware of this stuff as well."
At the time, the FBI seemed to be more preoccupied with investigating the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her handling of private email servers during her time as the US secretary of state.
www.ibtimes.co.uk/christopher-steele-frustrated-by-spy-services-inaction-before-leaking-trump-dirty-dossier-1601074