Christopher Steele's Other Report: A Murder In Washington

[MelissaB]

Christopher Steele's Other Report: A Murder In Washington

The author of the famous Trump dossier provided a secret report to the FBI asserting that RT founder Mikhail Lesin was bludgeoned to death by thugs hired by an oligarch close to Putin. Three other sources independently told the FBI the same basic story, contradicting the government’s finding that Lesin’s death was accidental.

The FBI possesses a secret report asserting that Vladimir Putin’s former media czar was beaten to death by hired thugs in Washington, DC — directly contradicting the US government’s official finding that Mikhail Lesin died by accident.

The report, according to four sources who have read all or parts of it, was written by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who also wrote the famous dossier alleging that Russia had been “cultivating, supporting and assisting” Donald Trump. The bureau received his report while it was helping the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department investigate the Russian media baron’s death, the sources said.

FBI spokesperson Andrew Ames declined to confirm or deny the existence of the report and would not comment for this story. Steele's business partner, Chris Burrows, declined to comment on behalf of Steele and their company, Orbis Business Intelligence.

The new revelations come as concerns about Russia’s meddling in the West have intensified to a pitch not seen since the Cold War. Both the UK and the US have blamed the Kremlin for poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England this month, using a rare nerve agent that endangered bystanders. (Russia has denied it was behind the poisoning.) In the wake of that attack, the British government has opened a review of all 14 suspicious deaths linked to Russia that a BuzzFeed News investigation exposed last year.

The BuzzFeed News series also revealed new details about Lesin — including that he died on the eve of a scheduled meeting with US Justice Department officials. They had planned to interview Lesin about the inner workings of RT, the Kremlin-funded network that he founded.

More: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/christopher-steele-mikhail-lesin-murder-putin-fbi?utm_term=.dpM3GPBYo#.vy9257zRG

[MelissaB]

1. More

Now BuzzFeed News has established:

*Steele’s report says that Lesin was bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for an oligarch close to Putin, the four sources said.

*The thugs had been instructed to beat Lesin, not kill him, but they went too far, the sources said Steele wrote.

*Three of the sources said that the report described the killers as Russian state security agents moonlighting for the oligarch.

*The Steele report is not the FBI's only source for this account of Lesin's death: Three other people, acting independently from Steele, said they also told the FBI that Lesin had been bludgeoned to death by enforcers working for the same oligarch named by Steele.

[Achilleaze]

2. republicans have some violently corrupt & evil comrades

As the evidence shows beyond argument, this evil shit definitely squares with the real republican family values, as we see them expressed in their "role models" - especially the entity at the top of their shit-heap: Comrade Casino, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

republicans need to piss off on their darkside russian thug buddies who are straining so hard to weaken and then destroy America.

[Ligyron]

9. His silence in response to multiple outrageous acts by Russia.

is all the confirmation one needs that Trump is in thrall to his master = Putin.

Release the pee tapes!

[gratuitous]

5. So hard to get good help

"The thugs had been instructed to beat Lesin, not kill him." This isn't going to look good on your resume, mister!

Take a lesson from Erdogan's Turkish goons. They just rioted, but they didn't kill anyone. What did Trump do for them last month? Guess:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/turkey-erdogan-security-charges-dropped/index.html

US dropped charges against Turkish bodyguards over DC brawl before Tillerson trip

Washington (CNN)The US has dropped charges against 11 of the 15 bodyguards for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who were indicted after a brawl with protesters outside the country's embassy in Washington last May, a spokesperson for the US Attorney in DC told CNN on Thursday.

Motions to dismiss the charges against seven of the security officers were filed on February 14 -- just one day before President Donald Trump's now former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to Ankara to meet with Erdogan.
"The decisions were made after further review of evidence in the case that raised questions about the identification of individuals," a source familiar told CNN.

See, folks? That's the way it's done.

[BlueJac]

3. K&R

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Somewhat reminiscent of the narrative surrounding

the Seth Rich conspiracy theory, promoted by the right in the following summer. As always Republicans (and Russia) project and loudly accuse their opponents of what they are secretly doing.

[njhoneybadger]

6. They do it every freaking time and it works every freaking time.

[iluvtennis]

7. Exactly -- "Republicans project and loudly accuse their opponents of what they are secretly doing"

[PatSeg]

8. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Ah!

no wonder they were trying to discredit him, don't want anyone looking at their funding sources

[UTUSN]

11. Holy Zeus, keep Mr STEELE safe.

[RussBLib]

12. How could his death be accidental

If he had multiple blows to the head? What? He fell and bounced off the pavement several times?

[erronis]

13. I'm just guessing, but RT used to be a reasonably balanced news outlet

I actually kept it in my list of bookmarked newsfeeds to check every few days along with many others around the planet.

Sometime, perhaps around a year ago(?), the slant changed from open to purely kremlin-based with a theme that seems to mimic fox and other truth deniers.

This may be a coincidence.

Wouldn't it be interesting if there is someone pulling putin's chain as well as dump's......

[NCTraveler]

14. 7/28/17 "Everyone thinks he was whacked"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/putins-media-czar-was-murdered-just-before-meeting-feds?utm_term=.kpezdOPOo#.guKpXlGle

[NCTraveler]

15. At one point, Lesin sold his media company to Yury Kovalchuk.

These people all run in the same circles, until they die in some brutal manner.

[pnwmom]

16. Wow. And this just happened in November 2015. Around the time Trump started running. n/t