Surprised to see you pushing this. Considering info from shady sources is normal for intelligence. And FBI had a relationship with Steele from the FIFA investigation. Do you really think the US should ignore counter-intel risks unless they hear about them from pristine sources?
Yes, that's how they're playing it. And looking only at the strategic aspect, the move makes sense. But does that mean the FBI should have ignored the reasonable suspicion against Carter Page in 2016? If they did, they wouldn't be doing their job.
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Nope. And as I've said, Trump did this to himself by associating with Page, Manafort, Flynn, et al. And there was dirt there on them already. Which is why I will never understand why it didn't just toss the dossier. Its provenance was a landmine for them and they stepped on it.
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Interesting question, and impossible to fully answer without knowing everything the FBI knew. Potentially, Steele provided some info that matched other sources, and some that didn't. The former makes the latter worth investigating. But why not use only other sources? Don't know.
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