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UK was given details of alleged contacts between Trump campaign and Moscow
In December the UK government was given reports by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele on possible collusion between Trump camp and the Kremlin
Julian BorgerFriday 28 April 2017 13.23 EDT
Reports of possible collusion between the Trump administration and the Kremlin have led to a political storm in the US. Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP
The UK government was given details last December of allegedly extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow, according to court papers.
Reports by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, on possible collusion between the the Trump camp and the Kremlin are at the centre of a political storm in the US over Moscow’s role in getting Donald Trump elected.
It was not previously known that the UK intelligence services had also received the dossier but Steele confirmed in a court filing earlier this month that he handed a memorandum compiled in December to a “senior UK government national security official acting in his official capacity, on a confidential basis in hard copy form”.
The court papers say Steele decided to pass on the information he had collected because it was “of considerable importance in relation to alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election”, that it “had implications for the national security of the US and the UK” and “needed to [be] analysed and further investigated/verified”.
The December memo alleged that four Trump representatives travelled to Prague in August or September in 2016 for “secret discussions with Kremlin representatives and associated operators/hackers”, about how to pay hackers secretly for penetrating Democratic party computer systems and “contingency plans for covering up operations”.
Between March and September, the December memo alleges, the hackers used botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs and steal data online from Democratic party leadership. Two of the hackers had been “recruited under duress by the FSB” the memo said. The hackers were paid by the Trump organisation, but were under the control of Vladimir Putin’s presidential administration.
Trump has rejected the allegations of collusion as a smear campaign. His lawyer, Michael Cohen, one of Trump representatives named in the memo, has described the claims in the memo as “totally fake, totally inaccurate”, and has said he had never been to Prague.
Since the memo became public in January, Steele had not spoken about his role in compiling it but he and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence Limited, have filed a defence in the high court of justice in London, in a defamation case brought by Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian venture capitalist and owner of a global computer technology company, XBT, and a Dallas-based subsidiary Webzilla.
Gubarev, who was named along with his company in the December memo as being involved in hacking operation, has denied any such involvement and is also suing Buzzfeed in the US courts for publishing the December memo alongside Steele’s earlier reports on election hacking.
A statement by Steele’s defence lawyers, endorsed by the former MI6 agent, said Orbis was hired between June and November last year by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based research consultancy to look into Trump’s links with Russia.
In that period, Steele produced 16 memoranda citing mostly Russian sources as describing a web of alleged contacts and collusion between Trump aides and Russian intelligence or other Kremlin representatives.
The document said that he passed the memos to Fusion on the understanding that Fusion would not disclose the material to any third parties without the approval of Steele and Orbis. They did agree to Fusion providing a copy to Senator John McCain after the veteran Republican had been told about the existence of Steele’s research by Sir Andrew Wood, a former UK ambassador to Moscow and an Orbis associate, at a conference in Canada on 8 November.
Senator McCain handed a copy of the Steele memos to James Comey, the FBI director, on 9 December.
After delivering these reports, the court papers say Steele and Orbis continued to receive “unsolicited intelligence” on Trump-Russia links, and Steele decided that to draw up another memo with this new information which was dated 13 December.
He handed one copy over to the senior British national security official and sent an encrypted version to Fusion with instructions to deliver a hard copy to Senator McCain.
The defence argues that Steele and Orbis were under a duty to pass on the information “so that it was known to the United Kingdom and United States governments at a high level by persons with responsibility for national security”.
Steele and Orbis say they never gave any copies to news organisations although Steele said he gave off-the-record briefings about the dossier to a small number of journalists in late summer and early autumn 2016. The defence brief argues that neither Steele nor Orbis is liable for Buzzfeed’s decision to print the document.
The Steele dossier was referred to in an intelligence briefing provided by the FBI and US intelligence agencies to Obama and Trump in January. Comey has confirmed that counter-intelligence investigations are under way into possible links between Trump associates and Moscow, and CNN has reported that the FBI used the dossier to bolster its investigations.
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Maxine Waters is annoying now. I thought she was fine at first but now she's a stale broken tape that just says the same thing over and over.
Shut the fukk up
Trump is sweating
Keep the boot on his neck and watch him break ...he's STILL playing dumb about what the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc have all said.
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Lmao she's like a song that gets played on the radio too much and becomes stale. Sorry people don't share your same delusions and obsessions.
I told you these Bernie bros were fukking stupid
they voted for trump 
Awwww they didn't see this coming
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this guy sets a new pathetic standard of direct obfuscation from the president
#WINNING...:JordanFunny::jordanhilarious:
GORKA...is OUT! :whatyoumean::maxinewaters:
#EVERYTHINGTrumpTouchesDIES :knowledge:
Sebastian Gorka to accept role outside White House
by Sarah Westwood | Apr 30, 2017, 3:56 PM
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Gorka's new role will deal with the "war of ideas" involved in countering radical Islamic extremism, a senior administration official said, and will entail an appointment to a federal agency. (Image courtesy screenshot)
Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, will soon accept a position outside the White House, two sources told the Washington Examiner on Sunday.
Gorka's new role will deal with the "war of ideas" involved in countering radical Islamic extremism, a senior administration official said, and will entail an appointment to a federal agency.
Gorka has served for months on the Strategic Initiatives Group, an internal organization within the White House, and as a national security adviser. His exit from the White House comes amid increased speculation that a reported lack of a security clearance prevented him from fully performing in his job.
But a source told the Washington Examiner that Gorka's role in SIG was always meant to be temporary, and suggested he had been placed there while administration officials created a terrorism-related position for him elsewhere in the government. An official said Gorka has been in a "holding pattern" while he waited for the position, which will not be at the State Department, to be established.
A spokesman for the National Security Council said he did not "personally know" the details about Gorka's move.
A White House source said Gorka's role has always been unclear and said Gorka never had national security issues in his portfolio. "This guy has always been a big mystery to me," the source said of Gorka's contributions to the staff.
The source said Gorka's only known duties included speaking on television about counterterrism, as well as "giving White House tours and peeling out in his Mustang," but added that he had few notable responsibilities.
Gorka's status in the West Wing has been the subject of speculation amid reports that the White House had weighed options that would place the former Breitbart editor in another areas of the administration. The author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, Gorka is a counterterrorism expert whose ability to articulate Trump's plans for battling the Islamic State has become an asset for the White House.
But his security clearance situation remains unclear
He is not the first aide whose move away from the NSC was explained by pointing to the temporary nature of his role there. Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, was moved off the NSC's principals committee after officials said his efforts to "de-operationalize" the council had ended.
Democrats and liberal activists have called for Gorka's resignation over alleged ties to a Hungarian political party connected to Nazism. Gorka has strongly denied the accusations and there has been no evidence to suggest that he is an active member of the group.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include new information from a White House source.
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GORKA...is OUT! :whatyoumean::maxinewaters:
#EVERYTHINGTrumpTouchesDIES :knowledge:
Sebastian Gorka to accept role outside White House
by Sarah Westwood | Apr 30, 2017, 3:56 PM
Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Email this article Share on LinkedIn
Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, will soon accept a position outside the White House, two sources told the Washington Examiner on Sunday.
Gorka's new role will deal with the "war of ideas" involved in countering radical Islamic extremism, a senior administration official said, and will entail an appointment to a federal agency.
Gorka has served for months on the Strategic Initiatives Group, an internal organization within the White House, and as a national security adviser. His exit from the White House comes amid increased speculation that a reported lack of a security clearance prevented him from fully performing in his job.
But a source told the Washington Examiner that Gorka's role in SIG was always meant to be temporary, and suggested he had been placed there while administration officials created a terrorism-related position for him elsewhere in the government. An official said Gorka has been in a "holding pattern" while he waited for the position, which will not be at the State Department, to be established.
A spokesman for the National Security Council said he did not "personally know" the details about Gorka's move.
A White House source said Gorka's role has always been unclear and said Gorka never had national security issues in his portfolio. "This guy has always been a big mystery to me," the source said of Gorka's contributions to the staff.
The source said Gorka's only known duties included speaking on television about counterterrism, as well as "giving White House tours and peeling out in his Mustang," but added that he had few notable responsibilities.
Gorka's status in the West Wing has been the subject of speculation amid reports that the White House had weighed options that would place the former Breitbart editor in another areas of the administration. The author of Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, Gorka is a counterterrorism expert whose ability to articulate Trump's plans for battling the Islamic State has become an asset for the White House.
But his security clearance situation remains unclear
He is not the first aide whose move away from the NSC was explained by pointing to the temporary nature of his role there. Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, was moved off the NSC's principals committee after officials said his efforts to "de-operationalize" the council had ended.
Democrats and liberal activists have called for Gorka's resignation over alleged ties to a Hungarian political party connected to Nazism. Gorka has strongly denied the accusations and there has been no evidence to suggest that he is an active member of the group.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include new information from a White House source.
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Not related but fox news caught trying to be slick