tomo,
more information available about Christopher Steele from Wikipedia, but given the source and subject, how much is genuine and trustworthy?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele

D Notices are respected by the UK MSM, but I expect they only serve to intrigue Editors and their senior staff. It is said by PR Consultants that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but Bell Pottinger proved this incorrect:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/05/bell-pottingersouth-africa-pr-firm

"Much seemed at stake in January 2016 when a delegation headed by the veteran PR supremo Lord Bell jetted to South Africa to pitch for business from the Guptas, the Indian-born family at the centre of the nation’s biggest political scandal since the end of apartheid.

Bell Pottinger, the public relations agency that Margaret Thatcher’s favourite PR adviser co-founded with Piers Pottinger in 1987, stood to gain lucrative fees of £100,000 a month.

Bell needed a solid business win as collateral in a personal battle raging with Bell Pottinger’s chief executive, James Henderson, who was trying to force out his chairman, arguing that he was not bringing in enough work to justify his £1m-a-year personal salary."

As the EU, Prime Minister May and many/most of the House of Commons (all Political Parties) and MSM were conned by Steele's dodgy dossier, their confidence in the UK Secret Squirrel Services are undermined. Therefore they all have egg on their faces.

Christopher Steele must have started his company with some reliable income already confirmed, to have retired, and afforded such a prestige address.

Wikipedia even has an entry for

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability

tomo, so far, Steele has been allowed/encouraged to keep a very low profile. This would make him the easiest to blame, whilst preventing him from defending himself

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/968455547094753281

More on Trudeau

http://mea.gov.in/media-briefings.htm?dtl/29522/Official_Spokespersons_response_to_a_query_on_invitation_to_Jaspal_Atwal

Official Spokesperson's response to a query on invitation to Jaspal Atwal

February 28, 2018

In response to a query regarding invitation to Jaspal Atwal, the Official Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said:

"We have seen the recent exchange in the Parliament of Canada regarding two invitations issued to Jaspal Atwal by the Canadian High Commissioner, for functions hosted in honour of the Canadian Prime Minister in India.

Let me categorically state that the Government of India, including the security agencies, had nothing to do with the presence of Jaspal Atwal at the event hosted by the Canadian High Commissioner in Mumbai or the invitation issued to him for the Canadian High Commissioner's reception in New Delhi. Any suggestion to the contrary is baseless and unacceptable.”

tomo, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not having a very good time. Something to do with her support for St Hillary, even if she can't remember spending money to frame Trump.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/29/collins-clinton-dnc-testimony-russia-244290

Sen. Susan Collins said on Sunday that officials from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign should testify again before the Senate Intelligence Committee about funding for the so-called Trump dossier.

John Dickerson, host of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” pointed to reports that former Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta and former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had privately testified to the committee that they didn’t know who had funded the compilation of the dossier, reporting on alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia.

“Sitting next to Podesta was the lawyer from the Clinton campaign who paid for the report,” Dickerson added, in reference to Marc Elias, general counsel for her campaign.

“They absolutely need to be recalled,” the Republican senator from Maine replied. “It’s difficult to imagine that a campaign chairman, that the head of the DNC would not know of an expenditure of this magnitude and significance, but perhaps there’s something more going on here.”

“Certainly, it’s worth more questioning of those two witnesses,” she added. “And the lawyer — he more than anyone.”

tomo, Wasserman Schultz has already been thrown under the wheels of the Democrat Bus, because of her links to St Hillary. The Democrats can't throw St Hillary after her, without admitting their own complicity in her misdemeanours, and that Trump had won. Again.

Nothing new here:

http://www.wbdaily.com/democrats/19141/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-fbi-clinton-abedin-20180302-story.html

Wasserman Schultz has been supportive of Israel, but she may have lost Democrats more financial support, whilst the source of the Clinton Foundation wealth comes under more scrutiny.

If the Democrats are looking for a Saviour, he/she will come from the ranks of those that supported Bernie Sanders.

tomo, a lot of Democrat swamp drain-plugs seem to be linked to Awan. What sort of bungs were used to insert him, and how many leaks has he been part of?

I presume that by "employing" Awan, Democrats received sufficient donations from somewhere, to make it financially worthwhile.

Obama did hunt down Osama bin Laden, but some within his administration then became more receptive to overseas oil money, through Non Governmental Organised pipelines.

tomo, Pakistan fits in very nicely with China's growing property portfolio

https//www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-china-gwadar-port/4084175.html

GWADAR, PAKISTAN — 

An unprecedented Chinese financial and construction effort is rapidly developing Pakistan’s strategically located Arabian Sea port of Gwadar into one of the world’s largest transit and transshipment cargo facilities.

The deep water port lies at the convergence of three of the most commercially important regions of the world, the oil-rich Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Beijing is developing Gwadar as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, known as CPEC. The two countries launched the 15-year joint mega project in 2015 when President Xi Jinping visited Islamabad.

Under the cooperation deal construction or improvement of highways, railways, pipelines, power plants, communications and industrial zones is underway in Pakistan with an initially estimated Chinese investment of $46 billion."

Osama bin Laden
Awan may just have been motivated by money, but Obama knew that Pakistan leaked information, and money was not the only motivation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_support_system_in_Pakistan_for_Osama_bin_Laden

"Critics cited the very close proximity (800 yards) of bin Laden's heavily fortified compound (a custom-built luxury complex) to the Pakistan's National Military Academy (PMA), Pakistan's "West Point",[5] and that the United States chose not to notify Pakistani authorities before the operation, and the alleged double standards of Pakistan regarding the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. "

"US-government files leaked by Wikileaks disclosed that American diplomats were told that Pakistani security services were tipping off bin Laden every time US-forces approached. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) also helped smuggle al Qaeda militants into Afghanistan to fight NATO troops. According to the leaked files, in December 2009, the government of Tajikistan had told US-officials that many in Pakistan were aware of bin Laden's whereabouts."

"The CIA Director and the US defense secretary Leon Panetta stated that Pakistan was "either involved or incompetent."

For an opinion from an Indian perspective, this is worth reading!

http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/7140-clinton-presidency-will-be-disaster-india

Arvind Kumar is a political analyst based in the US. His view that Clinton was not trustworthy prior to the election, is supported by subsequent evidence.

Googling Trump and Pakistan produces a list of people criticising US Policy for decades, and then criticising Trump for doing something different. One example is:

"Touqir Hussain, a former ambassador of Pakistan and diplomatic adviser to the Prime Minister, is adjunct faculty at Georgetown University and Syracuse University" (presumably he prefers the financial security and protection of living in the USA?)

https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/why-trumps-troubling-pakistan-policy-dooms-afghanistan-peace/

tomo, Benazir Bhutto was probably as corrupt as anyone else. She was probably assassinated by those who opposed her attempts to modernise/Westernise Pakistan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
"Following United States-brokered negotiations with President Pervez Musharraf, she returned to Pakistan in 2007 to compete in the 2008 elections; her platform emphasised civilian oversight of the military and opposition to growing Islamist violence. After a political rally in Rawalpindi, she was assassinated; the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, although the involvement of the Pakistani Taliban and rogue elements of the intelligence services were widely suspected. She was buried at her family mausoleum."

I do not know if it is still the case, but one region of Pakistan (can't remember which one!) supplied the "bulk" of the manual labour force, for oil rich Gulf State construction projects.

Mar 4, 2018 at 9:27 PM | tomo

My GUESS would be that employing Awan et al, attracted donations that far exceeded the salaries paid.

Awan may be from Pakistan, some money may have come via Pakistan, and some in Pakistan may have benefitted including some within the Government, but it may not have been an infiltration orchestrated by "Pakistan", just as blaming the "Russians" does not identify all those with a vested interest. Awan's financial support could be from anywhere, but probably Moslem and oil rich. The source may even have lost out in the recent "revolution" in Saudi Arabia.

Of the Democrats that employed Awan, how many were Team St Hillary as opposed to Team Honest Bernie Sanders? (I have no idea!) IF there was a bias towards St Hillary to support Moslem interests, then it won't just be Debbie Wasserman Schultz being asked questions, and many Democrat voters are going to be underimpressed.

I still think Awan was used as a greedy corrupt pawn, rather than someone prepared to die for someone else's cause.

Trump is in no rush to intervene, from Wikipedia:
"The   Mid Term Elections will mostly be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections will take place in the middle of Republican President Donald Trump's term. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested. 39 state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested."

Here are the runners and riders for the Democrat race to challenge Trump. St Hillary still believes that people believe she is trustworthy.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-want-biden-over-clinton-sanders-mcauliffe-in-2020/article/2650611

"Former Vice President Joe Biden’s quiet run for the 2020 presidential campaign is already winning deep support in Democratic circles.

The pollster Rasmussen Reports reveals that already Biden has the backing of 37 percent of Democrats, a crushing blow to two others hinting at a repeat run, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Clinton is second, at 14 percent, Sanders third at 11 percent.

Biden also leads when all voters are polled, not just Democrats. Said Rasmussen:

Among all voters, 25 percent prefer Biden, while 12 percent say Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Nine percent (9 percent) choose Clinton. Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are each the choice of four percent (4 percent) of voters. Two percent (2 percent) like former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. But 25 percent support someone else, and 17 percent are undecided. ..."