Former Obama DOJ Official Admits He Received Dirt On Trump From Clinton Operatives And Passed It On To Steele

I’m actually looking forward to reviewing Schiff’s counter-memo. I can’t wait to see how he attempts to refute the fact that senior DOJ and FBI officials KNEW about the shaky origins of the shady dossier and used it anyway and excluded those details from the FISA applications. They KNEW Christopher Steele was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.” And let’s not forget about the allegations made in the Grassley-Graham memo. Remember that? According to that, Clinton campaign associates fed Christopher Steele possible allegations against Trump while he was compiling the phony dossier. The Clinton campaign funded the dossier and helped supply that material.

Try to explain that, Schiff. I can’t wait to see you try. While you’re at it, explain this too.

That links to a report about former Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer. He wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post and admitted that he received dirt on Trump from Clinton operatives and passed it on to Christopher Steele.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post on Thursday titled “Devin Nunes is investigating me. Here’s the truth,” Winer publicly confirmed reports that he had passed on a report he received from Clinton operatives to dossier author Christopher Steele in the fall of 2016, right before the election.

He also confirmed that those Clinton operatives were aware of the dossier effort — making Hillary Clinton’s denials of knowing about the dossier even less credible than they were already.

Winer purported to tell “the real story” in his piece, in which he claimed his actions were taken because he was “so alarmed” by Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

Winer and Steele have a history. They’ve been friends since 2009. The summer prior to the election, his old buddy old pal told him he had “disturbing information” on Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, so they had a meeting and Winer looked over the dossier. The rest is history.

Winer admitted that in summer 2016, Steele told him he had learned of “disturbing information” regarding possible ties between Donald Trump, his campaign, and senior Russian officials. He then met with Steele in Washington in September 2016, and was allowed to review — but not take a copy — of the Steele dossier in order to “alert the State Department.”

He prepared a two-page summary and shared it with Nuland, who told him to share it with Secretary of State John Kerry. Winer notably did not say what Kerry did with the information, or who else he might have shared it with.

It gets worse. Enter Sidney Blumenthal.

Around that same time, Winer happened to speak with “old friend” and long-time Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal, whom he met 30 years ago. He and Blumenthal “discussed Steele’s reports” — an admission that Blumenthal, a close Clinton friend, knew about the Steele dossier as early as September 2016 (even though Clinton herself denied knowing about it until January 2017).

Winer said during that meeting Blumenthal gave him notes from a “journalist” he “did not know,” Cody Shearer, that corroborated the salacious allegation in Steele’s dossier that Trump had hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed. “What struck me was how some of the material echoed Steele’s but appeared to involve different sources,” Winer wrote.

The Clinton campaign was gathering “info” on supposed golden showers. This was actually happening. Talk about desperation. And again– not a trustworthy source. Shearer is a Clinton ally. How did Winer not know this?

However, if Winer had done a quick Google search on Shearer, he would have found several in-depth reports, including a 2015 ProPublica report, that clearly stated that Shearer was a longtime Clinton friend. In addition, it is odd that Winer, who also served under Bill Clinton, did not know Shearer’s brother had served as an ambassador under President Clinton, and Shearer’s sister was married to former Clinton official Strobe Talbott.

Winer then passed Shearer’s “dossier” to Steele, “to ask for his professional reaction,” he wrote. Steele said it was potentially “collateral” information, and kept the Shearer dossier.

Winer said he never mentioned Shearer’s dossier to anyone, and did not expect them to be shared with anyone in the government. He said he learned that Steele did share it with the FBI “after the FBI asked him” to provide everything he had on Trump.

Winer is trying to come clean and maintains that he only participated in this shady game because he was so worried about Russian interference.

“I am in no position to judge the accuracy of the information generated by Steele or Shearer. But I was alarmed at Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and so were U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials,” he wrote.

How my “old friend” Sid Blumenthal hooked me up with Cody Shearer who slipped me some stuff that I then passed on to Christopher Steele. This is supposed to be exculpating? https://t.co/UJCXfihMZr

— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 9, 2018

Exactly. I’m not understanding his logic here.

So much for total redemption…

“I believe all Americans should be alarmed — and united in the search for the truth about Russian interference in our democracy, and whether Trump and his campaign had any part in it,” he added.

He just admitted to getting a bunch of shady, untrustworthy material on Trump– material that has proved to be complete NONSENSE– and he still dares to float the phony Trump-Russia “collusion” theory?! Really?

Congrats on confirming you’re still a worm, Winer.

According to the @nytimes, a Russian sold phony secrets on “Trump” to the U.S. Asking price was $10 million, brought down to $1 million to be paid over time. I hope people are now seeing & understanding what is going on here. It is all now starting to come out – DRAIN THE SWAMP!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2018

It never ends. Corruption. Corruption everywhere.

h/t Breitbart