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3) The kompromat on Hillary had already been coming out for 5 days by then and yet the report makes no mention of it In short, a great example of how the dossier doesn't even report publicly known details.

I see, thanks. Regarding (2) in your tweet above, it seems like A and D were saying intel on HRC *was* shared already, and was helpful... 1/

Source B and Source G allude to "rumors of a dossier being circulated" that had "not yet been made available abroad" I had assumed they were talking about a separate item from Source A and Source D... rather than contradicting them. 2/

Certainly possible D is Agalarov people via Akhmetshin. If so, consider the implications of that.

Woah. That would be interesting. Although, Source D has two other claims, the most famous of which was "confirmed" by a certain redacted person referred to as Source E, and a certain Source F.

So in the hypothetical where Akhmetshin was an intermediary, these other sources with non-Akhmetshin intermediaries would have to lie, or their intermediary would. Or Akhmetshin would have to be passing on good info.

Or Akhmetshin would have been the intermediary for the purported Sources D and E and F. I don't believe think that was the case, though. I think those other two had "an ethnic russian company operative" who they talked to.

Right: None of Steele's sources are first-hand to him. But again, consider implications of Source D being Agalarov (which is basically who it describes). Why didn't Steele report the June 9 meeting, the most damning evidence currently public?