I thought that back then. But he valued his life and his family’s life more than he valued truth. He knew the price of betraying the left.
That’s why he appeared so incompetent. It was not just an investigation and he knew it. He just wanted out.
I recall Mueller being asked about the dossier. His response was that he didn’t know anything about it. A little incredible that he didn’t know anything about the source that brought so much of this nonsense before the public.
Because that was what the forum was about for months. That was what the news was about. That is how this got started as a media circus, whether the government had started spying on page earlier or not.
Without the dossier, there would have been no Mueller investigation.
Really? It alleged that Russia was feeding the Trump campaign with information about Hillary.
Mueller was tasked with investigating Russian interference and whether anyone in the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia. The dossier spelled out this collusion. But then, as you say, Mueller said the dossier wasn’t in his report…not that he didn’t look into it.
Mueller was able to put together a pretty damning report… well damning to anyone who actually read the thing.
The Steele Dossier has sadly become the sideshow that the Right Wing can point to and yell “Hoax” and it allows them to ignore the whole thing when in reality it actually didn’t matter that much.
The dossier was the issue with the media and with Democrats for well over a year. The whole issue would never have been pushed without it. It sort of became “what dossier” after it was admitted that the funding came from Hillary and the DNC. Too many remember to pretend otherwise.
What was damning in the Mueller report? One meeting that stupid junior was tricked into having under false pretexts. Manafort gave some Russian guy a copy of private, not public, polls. In other words, nothing. The whole thing was an embarrassment…for Mueller.
How often did we have to hear about Clinton selling Uranium? At least on one side most people came to understand that the Dossier wasn’t that great… even though it was presented as raw intelligence and it was never used to campaign with.
Russian Intelligence. Oddly enough in the Employ of the same guy who was feeding a bunch of the Disinfo into the Steele Dossier… so there is that.
How so? He didn’t concern himself with the Steele Dossier. Looks like he was being smart in his investigation.
“That leaves us with two significant takeaways from the analysis: 1) there are substantial reasons to give the report credibility (highly credible author, reports of other links and communications between the Trump campaign and Russia, much of the structure and substance of the reports, the fact that the US intelligence community seems to think it deserves further investigation) and reasons to question its veracity (access to Kremlin seems too good, lack of caveat or caution in assessments, factual errors and other details). 2) There is more than enough material (sources named, locations, organizations, time frames) to keep the FBI and the intelligence community busy with an investigation for several months.”
Do a Google search from October 2016 through June 2017. You will find tons of stuff like this. And then…the funding.