Could be the “cherry-picked” parts of the dossier they used were the parts they confirmed.The problem, however, is that the salacious parts WERE part of it, and they detract credibility from the rest of it. The fact that they were included throws doubt on the rest of it. "Your honor, my neighbor has been operating a meth lab in his basement. Oh, and he was also abducted by aliens at least three times".The problem, however, is that the salacious parts WERE part of it,
Liar.
You have no way to know that.
How would they be pertinent in a warrant application specific to Page?
You misunderstand. They were part of the dossier itself, and throw doubt on the rest of the document.
Who said they used the entire dossier?
IOW, they relied on cherry picked evidence?
Let's put it this way. Fox News reports that Hillary eats her boogers in the same story that they report she made a deal with NK to let them develop nuclear weapons. You want to get a warrant to tap her phone calls, so you use the story to convince the court. Now, do you accept the story because it sounds plausible, or do you, because of the salacious part of the story, go out and verify that she made the deal? If you verify the deal, you don't need the story any more, right?
In this case, they used cherry picked parts of the story to convince the FISA court without telling them the whole story.
So they wouldn't need the dossier. They would have used the verifying information.