Federal Judge Unseals 43 Pages of Christopher Steele’s Deposition
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federal court on Thursday unsealed 43 pages of a deposition that former
British spy Christopher Steele gave as part of a lawsuit over his
infamous anti-Trump dossier.
To the disappointment of many observers, the full deposition was not unsealed in Thursday’s motion. Instead, portions of Steele’s interview, which he gave in London on July 13, 2018, were unsealed in separate court filings submitted in the lawsuit.
Steele’s full deposition totaled 145 pages. The portions published on Thursday focus mainly on questions about the dossier’s claims about Aleksej Gubarev, a tech executive who Steele alleges took part in the hacking of Democrats’ computer systems.
Gubarev has vehemently denied the claim and sued Steele and BuzzFeed News, which published the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017.
U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro, who handled the lawsuit, ordered a slew of previously sealed documents to be made public on Thursday.
It is unclear whether Steele’s entire deposition will be released.
A source familiar with Steele’s interview tempered expectations of
any bombshells in the document, saying that Steele avoided going into
detail about his efforts to create the dossier and his sources.
A deposition given by former State Department official David Kramer was perhaps the most enlightening document contained in the dump.
To the disappointment of many observers, the full deposition was not unsealed in Thursday’s motion. Instead, portions of Steele’s interview, which he gave in London on July 13, 2018, were unsealed in separate court filings submitted in the lawsuit.
Steele’s full deposition totaled 145 pages. The portions published on Thursday focus mainly on questions about the dossier’s claims about Aleksej Gubarev, a tech executive who Steele alleges took part in the hacking of Democrats’ computer systems.
U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro, who handled the lawsuit, ordered a slew of previously sealed documents to be made public on Thursday.
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Ungaro dismissed the lawsuit on Dec. 19 but did not weigh in on whether the dossier’s claims about Gubarev were accurate.It is unclear whether Steele’s entire deposition will be released.
A deposition given by former State Department official David Kramer was perhaps the most enlightening document contained in the dump.
Kramer obtained the dossier in late November 2016 after visiting Steele in London.
Steele acknowledged that Kramer and McCain were picked as conduits to pass the dossier to then-FBI Director James Comey.
“I think they felt a senior Republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a Democrat because if it were a Democrat, I think that the view was that it would have been dismissed as a political attack,” Kramer said in the deposition when asked why Steele and his business partners, Fusion GPS, wanted McCain to meet with Comey.
Steele deposition — Exhibit 66 by Chuck Ross on Scribd
Steele Deposition — Exhibit 16 by Chuck Ross on Scribd
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