![]() Let the media and politicians roll in the gutter, but not us, they would say under normal conditions. Professionals who gather intelligence are supposed to be truth seekers. Those who dreamed up “Trump as a Russian agent” probably did not expect it to profoundly affect American political life as it did. Yes, politicians engage in dirty tricks that threaten to cross the line of legality, but it is hard to find another dirty trick of this magnitude. Media failures are to be expected, but rarely of this magnitude. Yes, media and politicians march to different drummers. We should not let the frenzy of the Steele Dossier by the media and anti-Trump politicians deflect attention from the intel community’s behavior. We are still waiting for some kind of disavowal of the dossier from our masters of intelligence. ![]() To my alarm, the FBI was taking the fake dossier seriously. All that would be required was for them to observe general rules of intelligence collection. Four years later, we have definitive proof from an inspector general and a special counsel that the Steele Dossier was indeed a hoax, one that paralyzed American politics for an entire presidential term.Īt the time, I expected the intelligence community to reach the same conclusion as I. ![]() In this and subsequent articles, I explained how and why I reached this conclusion, even with the limited information available at the time. 11, 2017 (one day after its publication by BuzzFeed), I wrote that the Steele Dossier was bogus, a fake, and a scam. ![]()
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