The Steele Dossier: Sex, Thugs and Russian Role?

[Lakhota]

If even a portion of the document’s claims about Trump and Russia are true, we have a big problem.

A 35-page document, published in January, containing numerous unverified and potentially devastating allegations against Donald Trump. If even a portion of the claims in the dossier are true, it could mean that the Russian government has a vast trove of kompromat — blackmail material — that it’s using to force the president into doing its bidding.

Surely you’ve heard at least one late-night joke about the pee pee tape. Trump went out of his way to deny that claim specifically. Golden showers are in the dossier, but so is a lot of information that seems slightly more believable — or at least slightly less absurd. But don’t trust us, read the whole thing for yourself at BuzzFeed. Your clicks will help pay to defend the outlet against the Russian businessmen who have sued BuzzFeed for publishing it.

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[Lakhota]

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[JustAnotherNut]

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[Zorro!]

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Washington Post Asks Reporters To Explain Their ‘Sunny Remarks’ About The Steele Dossier In Light Of The IG Report.

Here is a round up of “sunny remarks” about the dossier by various figures at Fake News MSNBC, Fake News CNN, and elsewhere. He asked each reporter to comment on their past expressions of confidence about the dossier in light of the findings in the IG report. The responses to Wemple’s inquiries can be divided into three groups: Those who didn’t respond (at least not on the record), those who regretted their past comments, and those who defended their past comments. Here’s a list of the reporters who didn’t respond to Wemple’s questions (on the record):

• Fake News MSNBC’s Rachel “Maddow declined to comment on the record.”
• Fake News CNN’s Alisyn Camerota “Declined to comment on the record.”
• Fake News CNN’s John Berman “Declined to comment on the record.”
• Fake News Former State Department official Jonathan Winer (appearing on CNN) “did not return a request for comment.”
• Fake News Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler (appearing on MSNBC) offered “No response to a request for comment.”
• Fake News CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd…Wemple lists this as “Awaiting a reply.”
• Fake News Journalist Jacob Weisberg (appearing on MSNBC)…Wemple writes “Attempts to secure a comment from Weisberg have been unsuccessful.”
• Fake News Journalist Natasha Bertrand (appearing on MSNBC) “Bertrand did not respond to requests for comment.”

It’s interesting how many of these Fake News journalists who were part of the pro-dossier chorus on left-leaning networks suddenly have nothing to say about it.

Some with much more integrity:

• Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote an email saying, “I’m still working through the IG report and doing some reporting, trying to decide what, if anything, is still credible in the Steele dossier.” The work to answer that question has already been done and the answer is “not much.” But at least he answered.

• MSNBC’s Howard Fineman gave a solid response which said in part, “In retrospect — and after much more digging — it’s clear that the whole emergence and effect of the dossier should be a warning to us all: bad oppo + zealous feds = bad journalism, erosion of the rule of law and threats to civil liberties.” Fineman also took a swipe at Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith: “at least initially, the press deserves more credit for steering clear of it than the feds! Remember, it took Ben Smith and BuzzFeed to put it out there in January 2017, after the dossier had been essentially bootstrapped into a semblance of credibility by the fact that the feds already had used it!”

• Reporter Daniel Lippman (appearing on CNN) claimed he couldn’t remember why he said what he did and then blamed the NY Times: “As far as what I told CNN, they were a long time ago and while I don’t recall my exact frame of mind at they time, this NYT story is a point of reference for my comments.”

The IG's report takeway was that the dossier was not believed by the FBI and was not even believed by Steele’s own primary source who described many of the stories as rumors that flowed when people were drinking at the bar.

Washington Post asks reporters to explain their 'sunny remarks' about the Steele dossier in light of the IG report