Russia, a dossier of rumors and a President elect 
Time|January 23,2017

WASHINGTON HAS LONG BEEN A CITY fueled by gossip, innuendo and backbiting, much of it anonymous and some of it completely fabricated.

Massimo Calabresi
Russia, a dossier of rumors and a President elect 

But rarely does such material ever get inserted into formal documents. And there may be no precedent for a report containing unsubstantiated allegations about a President-elect of the United States making it into an official intelligence briefing.

But that’s exactly what happened less than two weeks before Donald Trump’s Inauguration, testing the bonds of faith between the American people, their new President and officials in the intelligence community charged with safeguarding the nation.

The rumors themselves—alleging Russia possessed compromising information about Trump and secret ties to his aides—had been circulating in the capital for months. The FBI had also received copies of the allegations, an official familiar with the bureau says, as had Arizona Senator John McCain. The original source was a series of reports written from June through December last year by a former British intelligence official who was hired first by Republican opponents of Trump and then by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton. Many of the claims were questionable on their face.

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