A former staffer for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) continued to pay large sums of money in 2019 to former British spy Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the firm that retained Steele for work on a Hillary Clinton-funded misinformation dossier, even as the credibility of both Steele and the claims in his dossier evaporated.
The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP), a nonprofit operated by former Feinstein staffer Daniel Jones, paid $1,222,714 in 2019 to Bean LLC., the shell company that controls Fusion GPS, and $700,000 to Walsingham Partners Ltd., a British company co-owned by Steele, according to a tax filing.
Jones continued to fund the firms despite revelations in 2018 and 2019 that severely undermined the credibility of the dossier and its author. The dossier, compiled in 2016, contained bombastic allegations about then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia—none of which remain proven to this day, and some of which have been outright debunked.
In mid- to late-2019, the Department of Justice began to turn the tables on the operatives involved with the dossier, expanding its investigation of spying on the Trump campaign to include foreign intelligence agencies and later converting the inquiry into a criminal probe.
As the year progressed, evidence mounted to suggest that the dossier was part of a disinformation campaign, rather than a conventional, evidence-based opposition research document. In December 2019, The New York Times exposed another Jones-funded group, New Knowledge, for its involvement in a self-proclaimed “false flag” operation to influence the 2017 U.S. Senate election in Alabama by sowing discord among Republicans.
The New Knowledge revelations were particularly notable because the Senate Intelligence Committee had weeks earlier identified it as one of the firms it retained to peruse the data it had obtained from social media companies concerning Russia’s involvement in...
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