By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--February 16, 2017
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“Sir Andrew Wood, 77, believes its author Christopher Steele, 52, a former MI6 agent he knows from Moscow, is right to have vanished amid claims he fears for his life. “The diplomat says the salacious file 'was pretty much public' last Autumn and spoke to Senator McCain about its contents at a Canada security conference at the time of the US election. "Donald Trump has again lashed out over the affair, calling Steele a 'failed spy' employed by 'sleazebag political operatives' and suggesting he wants to sue the ex-MI6 agent if he ever comes out of hiding. “He tweeted: 'It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued'. “The row has plunged Britain and Russia into a fresh outbreak of Cold War hostilities with Russia claiming Steele has never left MI6 and security sources say he spoke to UK Government officials before handing the dossier to the FBI.”
“Sir Andrew and McCain discussed Trump's vulnerability to blackmail amid allegations contained in the discredited dossier. (Daily Mail) “He said: 'We spoke about how Mr Trump may find himself in a position where there could be an attempt to blackmail him with Kompromat (a Russian term for compromising material) and claims that there were audio and video tapes in existence. 'There were stories about his treatment of women and we know that the FSB and KGB do regularly use honeytraps'. “He added: 'I don’t think I have done anything wrong at all in what I have done'. “The document, which has opened up a deep diplomatic crisis, was delivered to FBI chief James Comey by Republican John McCain, but Sir Andrew insists it was not from him.”In today’s bloodsport called politics, sleepless nights must come from never knowing which of your colleagues is a Brutus or a Judas. Being a cleaning out the swamp laborer must be akin to wondering if that is a crocodile waiting around the bend or just another log. Meanwhile, the progressive left in partnership with the mainstream media work hard to keep the chattering classes demoralized. Negativity and anxiety have become the order of the day. “Trump entered office on Jan. 20 as the first elected president in the Gallup poll’s history to see an initial job approval rating below a majority, with just 45 percent of Americans approving of the way he was handling the job. It’s only dropped since. The new president’s approval rating was just 41 percent as of Tuesday, according to the poll. By comparison, Obama’s rating was 64 percent around the same point in his presidency, Gallup says.” (Bloomberg, Feb. 16, 2017) But it was that the mainstream media never vetted Obama that played a large part in his popularity. Some experts seem to be not just expecting but even hoping for Trump’s supporters to abandon him. “They’re not breaking from him yet,” Julian Zelizek, a presidential historian at Princeton University said. “But we don’t know how long that will last.” But Obama’s place in history is unprecedented because America has never before had a president who defiantly refused to go away when his time was up. Can we count on Citizen Barack Obama continuing to rid society of all enemies by the kind of Blackmail Bait threatening to out them with dirty dossiers? Shouldn’t someone be looking for the way to relieve the ex-president of this political strategy?
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