Eli Lake, Bloomberg: The Shady Dirt Diggers at the Heart of the Trump-Russia Scandal
The Kremlin's drive to repeal sanctions against oligarchs is bigger than helping one U.S. presidential candidate.
As the Trump-Russia scandal reaches a tipping point, it's worth going back to the first big break in the story: the dossier. Back in January, when Buzzfeed first published an opposition research document on President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, it wasn't clear what to make of it.
Compiled by a former British spy, Christopher Steele, the research was unverified. But it was significant enough that the intelligence community included it in briefings held with both President Barack Obama and then-candidate Trump himself. Some of it seemed crazy, like the detail that Russians had video of Trump in a lewd sex party. Some of it seemed all-too-believable, such as the account of how the Kremlin assessed its election-influence operation over time.
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WNU editor: Eli Lake is correct in his analysis that repealing the Magnitsky Act is infinitely more important to the Kremlin than who gets elected as US President .... a point that seems lost for many in Washington.
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