It almost worked.
Then why write the report?
Was this a draft for a novel?
How could McCain ever be a proper channel?
no mention about possibly being paid by the FBI for it? long before McCain became the bag man ?
Didn’t the FBI hire this guy? Who was his client who betrayed him? I am confused.
Is he admitting this and deflecting blame because Trump’s lawyers started an action (I think I read this a few days ago)?
And, is there any truth to the rumor I heard that Comey and others used this fantasy dossier as the basis for the FISA taps on Trump and related parties?
What is wrong with this picture????????? and why hasn't McCain been investigated for gullibility or stupidity or collaboration something?
I also understand the underhanded motivation one might have to make unreliable information public, such as slandering a political enemy.
But what is the point of gathering a bunch of unreliable information and then keeping it secret? Something is fishy about his claims.
It almost worked.
I thought it was cleared first through Dan Rather. /sarc
Steele’s defense is even more fictional than his dossier. When the thing first came out, it was widely reported story that Steele himself — not GPS Fusion — had shopped the dossier all over the news media, as part of doing his job. If the Plaintiff can present witnesses and affidavits attesting to this, Steele is sunk.
That Steele never intended for the whole document to be published might be true. Dirty deeds fare best in the darkness — sunlight reveals what they are. His scheme likely was to show it to insiders only, then leak salacious parts of it to anti-Trump media as directed by the Hillary campaign. The base document would be kept secret so that it couldn’t be tested for accuracy, or create libel charges.