US Senate calls on British spy Christopher Steele to give evidence on Trump-Russia dossier.
The key thing here, if you ask me, is that the FBI and both sides of the aisle have found Steele to be credible. They would not be seeking this if they did not.
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John McCain, the former Republican presidential candidate, and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent an intermediary to London in November last year to collect Mr Steele’s dossier, which was subsequently passed personally by the Senator to FBI director James Comey. And Mr Steele had, while carrying out his Trump inquiry, himself liaised for regular periods with the bureau.
Mr Trump has personally attacked Mr Steele, declaring the report on the Kremlin connection by the former MI6 officer as a fabricated work, put together by a “failed spy”.
In reality, Mr Steele was, and continues to be, held in high regard by British security and intelligence services as well as the American security officials who worked with him in the past.
Steele is not an idiot, he has gone into hiding ever since the Wall Street Journal 'leaked' the contents of the dossier. This leak incidentally resulted, as it is suspected, in the deaths of four senior Russian intelligence officials - the most recent of which was Oleg Erovinkin, the former head of the KGB, who was found dead in his car back in January.
The sheer fact that both republicans and democrats want to speak to him says a fair bit.