Luke Harding said for the first half of the year, “Steele was able to make inquiries in Russia with ease.” Steele presumably has more clients than Fusion, who Harding reports approached Steele “in early spring.”
That claim comes from this passage of the report, which he says was dated "late Fall."pic.twitter.com/9aU4ysnoY7
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He says that "late fall" report is proven by this report, which he notes is a November report.pic.twitter.com/kcY5jYYQ9g
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But, as we both agree, that last report is dated December 13 (he cleverly hides that fact by calling it "late fall"). That means he's using a November report on bots to "prove" that a December 13 Steele report predicted the bots. Last I checked, November comes before December
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Now, the claim is rather stupid in any case, bc Buzzfeed and other entities had been writing about bots for months *during* the election. And the still-best report on bots--from IRA, not from Webzilla--is this June 2015 report from the NYT.https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html …
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I agree that “late fall” is incorrect. What I don’t see is Sipher asserting that particular item predicted other reporting. He appears to be saying it’s corroborated by other reporting.
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The entire piece is about predictions. A December report cannot predict something that happened during the summer, and that was contemporaneously reported more accurately.
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