[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

For once I agree with Buchanan, namely that Steele was used by the KGB/SFV/Putin to create an election scandal to defeat Trump and put the mentally deranged Hillary into power.

It makes sense.

If the Fusion GPS story is to be believed, the Russia intelligence services didn’t know that they own “Russian lawyers” were meeting with a key former British counter-intelligence leader who was looking for “dirt” on Trump and Russian collusion.

Well, the Kremlin created that collusion when Steele met Ms. Comradeski and gave him documents for the “dossier”.

Then GPS took the bait like a hungry whale and the rest is history.

[EliRoom8]

As Andrew McCarthy brilliantly writes, the NY Times is running as fast as possible from their own "four reporter" blockbuster in April. Back then they were trying to boost the bona-fides of the "dirty dossier." They were essentially saying, "Look, the dossier can't be all that bad because the FBI used it to begin their investigation. And the highly trained non-partisan agents at the Bureau would only use credible, verifiable evidence"

Then in October when Congress had finally substantiated that the dossier was total balderdash put out by the Democrats' opposition research folks, the NY Times realized that their FBI confidantes/collaborators/buddies were going to get a major-league screw-over because they had used total crap in a second, more successful attempt to get a FISA warrant. So now the Times had to scramble, marginalize their own April story, and come up with this new flimsy angle about >>(Andrew McCarthy's words) a 28-year-old whose idea of résumé enhancement was to feign participation in the Model U.N. — who triggered the FBI’s massive probe by . . . wait for it . . . a night of boozy blather in London.