# Will Christopher Steele live long enough to testify before Congress? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 8, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736 "2017-03-08T23:10:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736/1 "2017-03-08T23:10:02Z")
[The dossier](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html) Republicans are, at best, dragging their feet, at inviting him to testify. Yet, more and more of his dossier is being confirmed. He has recently come out of hiding. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5exiuko3-nQ/maxresdefault.jpg "More Pieces Of Donald Trump Russia Dossier Check Out | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exiuko3-nQ) Steele went into hiding when people in Moscow (who may have talked to him) started disappearing in November and December. > [@](#): > > [Dmitry Dokuchaev,](http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article132961849.html) a major in Russia’s FSB security service and its Information Security Center, the nation’s premier unit investigating cybercrime, used the screen name “Forb” when he mingled with the large underground community of Russian-speaking criminals who use the so-called dark web to trade tools for defrauding consumers in the West. > > Whether Dokuchaev or his boss, Sergei Mikhailov, had direct ties with the CIA is not known publicly. But Dokuchaev’s activities open a window onto how Russia’s Federal Security Service, known as the FSB – the successor to the Soviet Union’s KGB spy agency – has deep links to the murky world of cybercrime and uses criminals to help reach state objectives. [Russian Media Reveal Identity of Third FSB Officer Arrested on Charges of Treason](https://gosint.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/russian-media-reveal-identity-of-third-fsb-officer-arrested-on-charges-of-treason/) We know dozens of Putin opponents have been silenced in the past. It will be interesting to see the the GOP can stall long enough for Putin’s assassins to do their work. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736/2 "2017-03-08T23:17:40Z")
The Republicans really have to do their best to keep him alive. The suspicion that would follow from him dying would make them look horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736/3 "2017-03-08T23:18:58Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > The Republicans really have to do their best to keep him alive. The suspicion that would follow from him dying would make them look horrible. Because all the other writing on the wall about shady shit by the administration has got them worried, right? ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736/4 "2017-03-09T16:31:48Z")
Maddow killing it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8abLxGh_RQc/maxresdefault.jpg "New Facts On Russia Influence On GOP Platform | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8abLxGh_RQc) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736/5 "2017-03-30T21:57:22Z")
[BBC Story](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39435786?post_id=10209843106930129_10211118033442495#_=_) > [@](#): > > But on this vitally important point - Kalugin’s status as a “spy under diplomatic cover” - people who saw the intelligence agree with the dossier, adding weight to Steele’s other claims. > [@](#): > > The voter rolls are said to fit into this because of “microtargeting”. Using email, Facebook and Twitter, political advertising can be tailored very precisely: individual messaging for individual voters. > > “You are stealing the stuff and pushing it back into the US body politic,” said the former official, “you know where to target that stuff when you’re pushing it back.” > This would take co-operation with the Trump campaign, it is claimed. > [@](#): > > With each new drip of information, option three - the chance that this is all a giant mistake, an improbable series of coincidences - seems further out of reach. > > Increasingly, the American people are being asked to choose between two unpalatable versions of events: abuse of power by one president or treason that put another in the White House. > > It cannot be both. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736/6 "2017-03-30T23:12:07Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > The Republicans really have to do their best to keep him alive. The suspicion that would follow from him dying would make them look horrible. Lol, no. Republicans have no shame and voters refuse to punish them for anything. So it won’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-christopher-steele-live-long-enough-to-testify-before-congress/781736/7 "2017-03-30T23:29:03Z")
> [@Belowjob2.0](#): > > The Republicans really have to do their best to keep him alive. The suspicion that would follow from him dying would make them look horrible. Friend, those morons put Trump in the White House. Do you think they give a hoot about how they look?