Reasons why the Democrats have been fucking stupid on the Steele dossier, a long essay. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/03/on-the-lawfare-surrounding-the-steele-dossier/ …
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Sorry another clarification, since I'm trying absorb the right's arguments about HRC colluding with RU via Steele dossier. As you've said,
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Dems overreached with criteria for "collusion" on Don Jr meeting. Now both HRC and Trump camps look like they got or tried to get info from
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Russian "spies." Now we don't know yet if info from Russians to Steele were purposefully planted. But on surface for now, isn't there a
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an apparent difference between info from Russians via Don Jr meeting and info from Russians via Steele dossier? On the surface, Don Jr was
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trying to get info from Russian government officials/Putin, but Steele was paying for leaks (whistleblowers) in Russian government (behind
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Putin' back). Again we don't know yet if whistleblowers leaks were actually working on behalf of Putin, but intention of Steele seems to be
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to get info from Russians leaking, whereas Don Jr was trying to get info from Putin govt. it's like getting info via operation of NSA
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officials versus NSA whistleblower leaks. Both info from people from NSA but one pro org, the other anti org.
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just incredible how sloppy leak of it to press without verification is coming back to bite Dems (as you predicted)
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