But there’s still a lot that’s not included in your timeline.
The effort to push this dossier in the media consisted of a lot more than rinky-dink Buzzfeed, there was obviously a co-ordinated scheme to lend credibility to the bogus dossier - an attempted smear which included some really big media names.
Go back and look at who was treating the dossier as pure truth - the NY Slimes, JeffBezos’ WashyPost, JeffZucker and CNN, Rachel Maddow and MSNBC, and more, a lot more ... all big-name outfits who raised not the possibility of doubt that the dossier was fake ... this was a conspiracy from the top down
Some intrepid reporter has a chance to make a really big scoop here, with more digging
Didn’t Mata Hari work at Buzzfeed before she got hired by the NYT?