Trump committed egregious intelligence breach, ex-UK spy tells court
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Donald Trump's decision to declassify evidence given by ex-British spy Christopher Steele over the former president's alleged links with Russia led to the disappearance of two sources, Steele said.

Donald Trump’s decision to declassify evidence given by ex-British spy Christopher Steele over the former U.S. president’s alleged links with Russia led to the disappearance of two sources, Steele said in court documents made public.

Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in the U.S., is suing Orbis Business Intelligence, a British private investigations firm co-founded by Steele, over the “Steele dossier” in order, he said in his own witness statement, to prove its claims were false.

The dossier, published by the BuzzFeed website in 2017, alleged ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia, and said Trump engaged in sexual behaviour that gave Russian authorities material with which to blackmail him.

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    Steele said in a witness statement that Trump’s decision to declassify his 2017 testimony to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was “one of the most egregious breaches of intelligence rules and protocol by the US government in recent times”.

    His witness statement was made public on Tuesday, the day after Trump asked London’s High Court to allow his data protection lawsuit against a British private investigations firm co-founded by Steele to continue.

    Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is suing Orbis Business Intelligence over the “Steele dossier” in order, he said in his own witness statement, to prove its claims were false.

    Steele had given evidence in an interview with two FBI agents as part of Mueller’s probe into an alleged conspiracy between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.

    He suggested Trump’s discovery of Steele’s friendship with his daughter Ivanka had damaged their relationship and also “deepened his animus towards me and is one of the reasons for his vindictive and vexatious conduct towards me and Orbis”.

    In his witness statement, Trump said Ivanka was “completely irrelevant to this claim and any mention of her only serves to distract this court from (Orbis’) and Mr Steele’s reckless behavior”.

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