emptywheel

June 20th memo, Source D. What are your thoughts on the allegation about the intelligence on Hillary that was "very helpful"? What's your take on it? Not related to the June 9th meeting? Or just too vague to assume honest account by the source and/or the intermediaries?

1) By context that is a reference NEITHER to stolen emails NOR campaign donation dirt, which is why it's not a reference to the June 9 meeting 2) If it WERE a reference to the June 9 meeting, it would have said dirt had been shared

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.