January: Obama expands NSA sharing. As Michael Walsh later notes, and as the New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration “expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.” The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked. The former MI6 operative, is Christopher Steele, who was hired by Fusion GPS, a corporate espionage firm, to dig up dirt on Trump but apparently came up with a fabricated smear instead. More about the fake dossiers’ bizarre journey:Ĭarl Bernstein suggested that McCain was handed it by a former British ambassador to Moscow.īernstein told CNN: ‘It came from a former British MI6 agent who was hired from a political opposition research firm in Washington who was doing work about Donald Trump for both republican and democratic candidates opposed to Trump.’ Several media outlets claim that they had been aware of the dossier for months and that it had been circulating in Washington. None of the allegations can be verified and some are proven false. It purports to show continuous contact between Russia and the Trump campaign, and says that the Russians have compromising information about Trump. Buzzfeed releases, and CNN reports, a supposed intelligence “ dossier” compiled by a foreign former spy.
After Trump was elected, the Obama cabal set in motion a conspiracy to undermine the Trump administration: