CIA and on FBI payroll for decades. Just another government grifter who gets a paycheck normal Americans only dream of for a do-nothing job.
And by the way, this fat clown “American” was never brought back to face the investigation, and no US investigator ever spoke to him.
Steele created the “dossier” on his own. There was NO Russian source. It was not “disinformation”. Steele created it and Halper helped shop the story around and set up others to get the buzz going.
The reason they keep prattling on about the “Russian source” is simple. If there is a Russian source, then our intel agencies were tricked by Russia. This makes them sloppy and a little incompetent. If there was no Russian source, then this was pure treason with no escape hatch.
Don’t forget about that Joseph Misfud character. He was supposedly in on the dossier, I think.
I don’t for a second believe that Steele created it on his own. He was fed the information, probably from people such as Syndey Blumenthal and others, who invented it or found it on internet chatrooms. A few bits from the dossier were already in the public domain (such as the so-called Trump servers connected to Russian banks, and the “pee tape” rumor). Steele’s “job” was to maybe format the information and then funnel it with his imprimatur as a “former MI-6 intelligence officer” to give it so-called credibility (even though he had already been fired by the FBI for leaking). Also, creates arms length/plausible deniability removing direct connections by sticking him as one of several layers in the middle. When the FBI didn’t leak the information (and re-opened the Hillary email investigation which imo spooked HRC) Steele then went to the State Department to peddle it.