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What to Know About the Dossier of Trump Research and Who Paid for It

"rooster, That the dossier was commissioned by 'Never-Trump' Republicans (or one) is old news."

By KENNETH P. VOGEL OCT. 25, 2017

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Is this sort of research common or legal?

Campaigns and party committees frequently pay companies to assemble what’s known in politics as opposition research — essentially damaging information about their opponents — and nothing is illegal about the practice.

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Who else knew about Mr. Steele’s research during the campaign?

Officials from the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. have said they were unaware that Perkins Coie facilitated the research on their behalf, even though the law firm was using their money to pay for it. Even Mrs. Clinton only found about Mr. Steele’s research after Buzzfeed published the dossier, according to two associates who discussed the matter with her. They said that she was disappointed that the research — as well as the fact that the F.B.I. was looking into connections between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia — was not made public before Election Day.

But word of the memos and their contents had circulated in Washington political and media circles before the election. In British court filings, Mr. Steele’s lawyers said that he and Fusion GPS briefed journalists from a range of media outlets, including The New York Times, on his research starting in September of 2016.

Yet the research and even the existence of the dossier were not reported by the media, with the exception of Mother Jones magazine, which published a story in the days before the election that described the dossier, its origin and significance, while omitting the salacious claims.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html?_r=0

So mr40, et al, you can stop your conspiracy mongering and mindless (most surely is) speculation any time.

Remember Joe Friday? .. https://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/dragnet.asp

LOLOL. Loved that show.