MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.
By Jane Mayer for the March 12 New Yorker; available online now @ newyorker.com
Illustration caption: Steele told friends that Trump supporters were using him as a “battering ram” to “take down the whole intelligence community.”
In January, after a long day at his London office, Christopher Steele, the former spy turned private investigator, was stepping off a commuter train in Farnham, where he lives, when one of his two phones rang. He’d been looking forward to dinner at home with his wife, and perhaps a glass of wine. It had been their dream to live in Farnham, a town in Surrey with a beautiful Georgian high street, where they could afford a house big enough to accommodate their four children, on nearly an acre of land. Steele, who is fifty-three, looked much like the other businessmen heading home, except for the fact that he kept his phones in a Faraday bag—a pouch, of military-tested double-grade fabric, designed to block signal detection.
A friend in Washington, D.C., was calling with bad news: two Republican senators, Lindsey Graham and Charles Grassley, had just referred Steele’s name to the Department of Justice, for a possible criminal investigation [....]
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Note there is also audio of the story available @ link; I haven't checked that out.
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 7:59pm
I should point out that this not just a bio piece; some new bombshells here, like this on Romney:
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 8:33pm