Beating a Hasty Retreat from the Steele Dossier

Beating a Hasty Retreat from the Steele Dossier

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455105/fusion-gps-steele-dossier-collusion-narrative-falls-apart

Excerpt: he New York Times’ Russian Reset continues. My weekend column argued that the Democrats and the media are scrambling to pull together a new origination account of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. The original origination account has become a political liability because it centered on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser who featured prominently in the so-called Steele dossier. The dossier, a compilation of Russia-sourced reports authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, is now known to have been a Clinton campaign-funded opposition-research project. Though its key allegations seem never to have been verified by the FBI, the dossier was apparently used by the Obama Justice Department in applying to the FISA court for a surveillance warrant targeting Page as a Russian agent enmeshed in a corrupt plot against the 2016 election. On cue, the Times has now published a defensive op-ed by the two founders of Fusion GPS, the research firm that produced the Steele dossier. What is most striking about this offering by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch is what it studiously avoids addressing: the specific allegations in the dossier. (It's falling apart faster and faster now, although you won't hear about it on CNN and the Times won't cover it with their dissecting knife either.  I hope it finally gets known well across the population that most people understand it was phony from the start, paid for with a huge chunk of money from the DSC.  Hey, you pay enough, someone will generate whatever it is you want, the sun rises in the West, George Washington was a transsexual who started life female, whatever. --Del)