The second dossier - two reports compiled by Cody Shearer, an ex-journalist and longtime Clinton operative - echoes many of the lurid and still unsubstantiated claims made in the Steele dossier, and is receiving new scrutiny.
In late September 2016, Sidney Blumenthal, a close Clinton confidant and colleague of Shearer's, passed Shearer's dossier on to State Department official Jonathan M. Winer, a longtime aide to John Kerry on Capitol Hill and at Foggy Bottom.
In a Feb. 8, 2018 Washington Post op-ed, he shared the contents of the Shearer dossier with the author of the first dossier, ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who submitted part of it to the FBI to further substantiate his own investigation into the Trump campaign.
Christopher Steele, whose dossier has many similarities to the Shearer dossier.
Like the Steele dossier, Shearer's memo passes along unsubstantiated gossip about Trump's sex life: According to Shearer's FSB source, it was "From observing Trump for years in previous visits to Moscow, the FSB knew he had a weakness for women."
Shearer's FSB source told him "That he knew that Trump eventually learned that he had been flipped in a honeypot operation in Moscow." Shearer's memo echoes the most notorious, and salacious, item in the Steele dossier.
Shearer writes in his memo that Ross told him that if there were a "Talking head source" who could corroborate Shearer's claims regarding Trump's sexual activities in Russia, "[Ross] would fly to Moscow to tape and air for broadcast" an interview with the source.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/04/25/test.html
In late September 2016, Sidney Blumenthal, a close Clinton confidant and colleague of Shearer's, passed Shearer's dossier on to State Department official Jonathan M. Winer, a longtime aide to John Kerry on Capitol Hill and at Foggy Bottom.
In a Feb. 8, 2018 Washington Post op-ed, he shared the contents of the Shearer dossier with the author of the first dossier, ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who submitted part of it to the FBI to further substantiate his own investigation into the Trump campaign.
Christopher Steele, whose dossier has many similarities to the Shearer dossier.
Like the Steele dossier, Shearer's memo passes along unsubstantiated gossip about Trump's sex life: According to Shearer's FSB source, it was "From observing Trump for years in previous visits to Moscow, the FSB knew he had a weakness for women."
Shearer's FSB source told him "That he knew that Trump eventually learned that he had been flipped in a honeypot operation in Moscow." Shearer's memo echoes the most notorious, and salacious, item in the Steele dossier.
Shearer writes in his memo that Ross told him that if there were a "Talking head source" who could corroborate Shearer's claims regarding Trump's sexual activities in Russia, "[Ross] would fly to Moscow to tape and air for broadcast" an interview with the source.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/04/25/test.html
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