The Red Thread by Diana West

Author:Diana West [West, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1492884537
Publisher: Center for Security Policy Press
Published: 2019-02-20T06:00:00+00:00

18. Could the Second Dossier Be the First?

W hat if this second dossier was really the first? That is, might the “Shearer dossier” have preceded or inspired the “Steele dossier”?

In documenting the similarities between the Shearer dossier and the Steele dossier, Real Clear Investigations’ Lee Smith uncovered a chronological marker that could reconfigure the whole yarn. Smith describes the first part of the Shearer dossier — a four-page report titled, “The Compromised Candidate” — as “a record of various journalists and media personalities explaining how they’ve heard the same [Trump-Russia] rumors, and even tried, unsuccessfully, to report the story that Shearer is pushing in the second report.”[177]

One of these commentators, Robert Baer, later told Smith “he remembered speaking with Shearer about Trump and Russia in `March or April’ of 2016.”[178]

If Baer’s memory is correct, the Shearer dossier could be the granddaddy of all Clinton 2016 opposition research. “March or April of 2016” is the timeframe during which the Democrats and Hillary Clinton hired Fusion GPS for the Trump-Russia project. (It is also the timeframe of the alleged DNC “hack,” which Julian Assange has all but attributed to a leak, [‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡] not a hack, by murdered DNC official Seth Rich.) Nellie Ohr was already working for Fusion GPS; it is believed that Steele came on board in June — right after Nellie Ohr in May applied for a ham radio license.[179]

Might Steele have been hired to give a new British intelligence accent to Cody and Sid’s (and possibly Derek’s?) old tricks? So long as Fusion GPS kept a lid on the fact that they were all working to elect Hillary Clinton, no one was likely to suspect that Steele was just a new kind of Clinton operative, albeit with an Old School tie.

Smith explains it this way:

[Cody] Shearer tried to drum up interest in the collusion narrative but no one in the press was biting. No one was willing to sink time and prestige on material sourced to unnamed Russian intelligence officials that was provided by a Clinton political operative whose partner, Sidney Blumenthal, had an even more controversial reputation.[180]

This sounds similar to Shearer’s early efforts to shop around his “dodgy dossier” about Dan Quayle in 1991. A quarter-century later, however, his and Blumenthal’s notoriety as Clinton hatchet-men got in the way.

Smith continues:

But it would be different if it came from someone else, an intelligence operative whose American handlers worked up a suitable legend of his exploits in a glamorous, allied clandestine service, and his deep knowledge of all things Russian. So what did it matter if Steele had become an executive in a corporate intelligence firm whose official cover had been blown a decade before and who hadn’t been to Russia in years? The byline of a former MI6 [officer] could credential a compendium of unsubstantiated rumors when the names of Clinton confederates Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal could not.[181] [Emphasis added.]

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