![]() ![]() The news rocked the political world and sent the incoming administration into panic mode: “The consequences have been incalculable and will play out long past Inauguration Day,” warned a follow-up story in the New York Times on January 11, 2017. “ includes specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives, and graphic claims of sexual acts documented by the Russians.” “The documents have circulated for months and acquired a kind of legendary status among journalists, lawmakers, and intelligence officials,” Buzzfeed admitted. (Perhaps the term was chosen because it sounded much better than “political dirt from a shady foreign operative and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.”) Later in the segment, author Carl Bernstein confirmed the information was sourced by a “former British MI6 intelligence agent who was hired by a political research opposition firm in Washington who was doing work about Donald Trump for both Republicans and Democratic candidates opposed to Trump.”īuzzfeed published the entire series of memos online a few hours later, conferring a more official term-”dossier”-onto the document. intelligence officials consider credible.” “These were based on memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative whose past work U.S. “The allegations were part of a two-page synopsis,” Sciutto explained. officials with firsthand knowledge of the briefings” who told the network that a brief summary of the damaging material had been attached to the in intelligence community’s official report on the Russian government’s plan to disrupt the 2016 presidential election. Reporter Jim Sciutto cited “multiple U.S. The reporters disclosed that President Obama and President-elect Trump had been briefed a few days earlier on classified documents that suggested Russian officials possessed compromising information about the incoming president. ![]() circles for nearly six months, a scoop orchestrated by then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allowed CNN to air its award-winning segment, “Intel Chiefs Presented Trump With Claims of Russian Efforts to Compromise Him” on January 10, 2017. Two years ago today, the “dossier” was officially introduced to the American public.Īlthough its author and his handlers had been circulating the document within Washington, D.C. ![]()
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