Christopher Steele’s Victory in a D.C. Court

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 6:24pm

Here’s another miscarriage of justice for ya...

Christopher Steele’s Victory in a D.C. Court

The author of the explosive dossier outlining the president’s alleged ties to Russia won an important legal victory on Monday, when a judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against his firm by the co-founders of Russia’s largest private bank.

In his decision to toss the case “with prejudice”—that is, permanently—Judge Anthony C. Epstein of the Washington, D.C., Superior Court concluded that the author of the dossier, the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, acted “in furtherance of the right of advocacy on issues of public interest” when he decided to brief reporters on the dossier’s findings in the summer of 2016. Steele’s conduct is therefore protected by “anti-slapp” statutes, according to the judge, which aim to halt lawsuits brought to chill the exercise of constitutionally protected free speech.

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Epstein’s decision in the lawsuit did not consider whether the dossier was accurate or inaccurate. But his conclusion offered the first authoritative response to questions that have been raised by President Donald Trump’s Republican allies about the propriety of Steele discussing the dossier with reporters prior to the 2016 election.

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/568057/

They’re (TPTB> getting ready to pull a fast one and declare that that dossier is true.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:15pm
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The Atlantic website is the mouthpiece for the Atlantic Council which is full of neocons foreign and domestic. I posted a link to who funds the AC in an earlier essay here. I looked for more sources and every one linked back to this one.

According to Epstein, the dossier “as a whole plainly concerns an issue of public interest … because it relates to possible Russian interference within the 2016 election.” Steele has made a similar argument with regard to his decision to pause his coordination with the FBI and brief the media directly on his findings in September and October 2016, according to people familiar with his thinking: While he never intended for the dossier itself to be made public—he has said he was “horrified” when BuzzFeed published it in full—he believed the public had a dire need to know the broad outlines of a potential conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, and the FBI had no plans to make such details known. “The Steele dossier generated so much attention and interest in the United States precisely because its content relates to active public debates here,” Epstein wrote.

The bolded sentence seems a bit off for me because the issue has not been confirmed yet. As to Steele being horrified that his dossier was published in full seems untrue to me. Wasn't he aware that he was working with fusion GPS whose job it is to post unverified information on news media sites? They are hired to clean up company's reputations.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 8:35pm
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That the Public needed to know because Russia was meddling and colluding with Trump. Jesus wept.

And then he had the temerity to add "With Prejudice."

Good. Then he will wear his profound ignorance and failure as a judge around his foolish neck for the rest of his life.

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Submitted by Unabashed Liberal on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 9:37pm
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assessment on Russia's involvement in the 2016 election is universally accepted by the PtB/DS, which as far as I'm concerned, would include the DC Circuit Court.

Regarding this statement,

"While he never intended for the dossier itself to be made public—he has said he was “horrified” when BuzzFeed published it in full . . ."

I think it's meant 'to give Steele cover.' After all, he was adamantly anti-Trump, Pro-FSC--and it was well known by the Deep State, since Steele called 'everybody and their brother' in the federal bureaucracy, even resorting to establishing ties with McCain and his aide, in order to get this dosier out into the public sphere. IMO, that comment's simply misdirection.

Hadn't heard about this--thanks for posting, Amanda!

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