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Via Twitter a recommendation from The Spectator's Editor, Fraser Nelson, to read:

Link to article:http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/01...ian-influence/
Paul Wood worked with Chris Steele, and has been ardently defending him.

Curiously, this elaborate plot to insert a Russian agent into the White House has only truly come to light after the election and now seems to be an open secret, with active and retired spies throughout the West and many Russian businessmen being aware. This is in spite of the direction of the operation from Putin's very office, bypassing the SVR and GU.

Mark Galeotti claimed that Putin desired a weakened Hillary Clinton to be elected. Now that Trump was elected in a major upset, he finds his legitimacy damaged prior to his inauguration, and again, Russia is the source. The Russians certainly have enough agents throughout the Baltics to corroborate this tale, and since when have the British not been on the losing side of the HUMINT game with the Russians?

Blinded by partisanship, Americans might not want to believe that Putin was going to sabotage whoever was president-elect.