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Confronting his critics, Christopher Steele defends controversial dossier in first major interview | ABC News - Oct. 17, 2021 |
Steele continues to defend the inclusion of some of the dossier's more controversial claims, including that Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and self-described fixer, traveled to Prague in 2016 for secret meetings with Russian interlocutors -- a claim that Cohen has vehemently denied, and that the FBI later determined not to be true.
"Do you think it hurts your credibility at all that you won't accept the findings of the FBI in this particular case?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"I'm prepared to accept that not everything in the dossier is 100% accurate," Steele said. "I have yet to be convinced that that is one of them."
Asked for comment regarding Steele, Cohen sarcastically told ABC News, "I'm pleased to see that my old friend Christopher Steele, a/k/a Austin Powers, has crawled out of the pub long enough to make up a few more stories.
While Steele acknowledged that no corroborating evidence has been found for many of his dossier claims, he argued that very little contradictory evidence exists either -- a line of defense that his critics have found problematic.

Isikoff: Steele Dossier and Untruths | Dec. 2018 |

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Christopher Steele: Confessions of a former British spy on Johnson, Putin, Trump, and James Bond | Sky News |
It happened about 18 months after his identity as the author of an unverified dossier, alleging collusion between Russia and Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, became public in January 2017 and is just one of many strange moments in a once top-secret life.
Now, for the first time, in a major interview with a British broadcaster, the MI6-officer-turned-private-spy has talked about debating with Boris Johnson as university students, meeting then Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev while serving as an intelligence officer in Moscow and - possibly - having a cup of tea [no poison] poured for him by a young Vladimir Putin.
Mr Steele, 57, also revealed the impact being linked to the dossier had on him and his family, even claiming his wife, who worked at the Foreign Office, effectively lost her career in the fallout. He said that left him feeling "pretty angry and disappointed - as she does".

Case 1:18-cv-00183: Michael Cohen plaintiff v. Bean LLC, d/b/a Fusion GPS, and Glenn Simpson, defendant

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