the dates matter, josh. people ascribe predictive value to the steele memos. reality is that they _always_ trail contemporaneous coverage.
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Replying to @empiricalerror @joshuamanning23
Possibly not on Page. But on anything involving cyber ... by months.
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Replying to @empiricalerror @joshuamanning23
OK. My job is not to defend Steele. Maybe Mueller met with him to find out who was spreading disinfo.
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Replying to @emptywheel @joshuamanning23
i don't perceive you as defending steele. but, like you, i've done my homework on this. there is nothing in the dossier that was not...
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... already publicly reported elsewhere before.
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Replying to @empiricalerror @emptywheel
So true. But his reporting backs up a lot. And makes many things clearer. It presents a place to put your fingers when climbing.
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Replying to @joshuamanning23 @empiricalerror
Give me 13 stories from the WaPo. That'd do a better job than Steele and have various forms of evidence to back them.
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Replying to @emptywheel @empiricalerror
Yes. But Steele was there last year. Where was the WaPo? I turn to them now but Steele is a backbone to it. Multi-sources.
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Replying to @joshuamanning23 @emptywheel
you must not have read wapo, then. dnc hack attributed to russian government june 14 2016. 1.5 months before steele.
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But that had errors too. Still, orders of magnitude closer than Steele, even at the end.
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