emptywheel

"it began as a hunch." No. It began when they found they'd been hacking the Dems for almost a year.

Rachel here obfuscating. Listing a BUNCH of stuff that was not predicted in the dossier. NOT telling readers the dossier said he met with OTHER officials.

Remember, Rinat Akhmetshin was doing work for Fusion at this time, may have been paid by Fusion. Not in the dossier. This is actually the BIGGEST discrediting data point. But ... she's no telling viewers that.

NOOOOO. Russia was feeding other info. And until after the WL leak, Steele still said the dirt was old intercepted data.

This is shoddy. Not A=A. This is what we accuse Trump followers of. WE KNEW THIS BEFORE THE FIRST DOSSIER REPORT

"we now know" a federal GJ indicted him for entirely different shit!! God this is shoddy.

"Then another person mentioned in the Steele dossier" plead guilty ... for something else. Christopher Steele had NONE of this story, Rachel!!

"Americans need the truth." Sadly they won't get it at TRMS.