Report: House Select Committee investigating John Kerry’s role in the Russian dossier

  It is being reported here that the House Select Committee has moved into phase two of its investigation into the Russian dossier and this phase is focused on John Kerry and Barack Obama’s State Department. Here is more:

The House Select Committee on Intelligence is now investigating former Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s possible role into the unverified dossier paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton Campaign, this reporter has learned. The dossier, assembled by a former British spy, laid the foundation for the FBI’s investigation into alleged collusion between President Trump and Russia and was the essential piece of evidence used by the FBI to get a warrant to spy on a former volunteer for the Trump campaign.

For more than a month, the committee has been in its second phase of investigations focused on former Obama State Department officials and their role in either transmitting information or using information provided by a former British spy and investigator Christopher Steele. Steele was hired by embattled research firm Fusion GPS, also under several congressional and Senate investigations.

But it was in February when questions surfaced regarding Kerry’s possible involvement or knowledge of the dossier.

Here is more:

information uncovered by the Senate Judiciary Committee and revealed in its criminal referral of Steele to the Department of Justice that several Clinton allies were also connected to the State Department and the dossier. Sidney Blumenthal, a close confidant of Hillary Clinton, and Cody Shearer, a former journalist who went on to work for the Clintons, appeared to be feeding Steele information.

  I do not know how reliable this source is but we have learned over the last few months how involved the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign were with the Russian dossier–from paying for it to providing, sharing, and distributing information–so it does seem likely the Select Committee would be looking into this.

  It certainly seems as if there was some meddling in the 2016 election after all, but it was the Obama administration and the Democrats doing the meddling.

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