I mean, how does this get by a fact check? Michael Isikoff has confirmed he wrote a story, and that story has been subject of a month-long debate.pic.twitter.com/Vq4y0svN7A
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The great Jane Mayer joins the long line of people who ignore the Guccifer 2.0 release to make Steele look better (and repeats other errors we've seen over and over).https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier …
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And Susan Rice is going to get another letter. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000161-c538-d933-a3e9-d7b99b660002 …pic.twitter.com/kHpTPzSFGm
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And this part is interesting (tho as Mayer notes, Romney was never a likely choice), but raises real questions why this report wasn't included in the dossier to McCain or the one that got released.pic.twitter.com/75MziUSdCW
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1) Steele got the kind of dirt wrong. 2) Steele didn't catch on to the hack-and-leak until long after everyone else had (thus the import of the G2.0 mention).pic.twitter.com/30QHhHVRHG
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Can you please explain??
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It would be nice. But she probably won't, and I don't have time to go research it.
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I've written about this repeatedly. Here's just one example. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/24/did-the-steele-dossier-lead-the-democrats-to-be-complacent-after-they-got-hacked/ …
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I honestly don't have time to re-read that, I have to go to work. Can you please be less cryptic for those of us who haven't committed everything you've written to memory?
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Congratulations. That's one of the most assholish things anyone has said to me in a while.
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Dude, make the time to read it. Marcy's write-ups are a must read. Definitely the most substantive takes on the Russia investigation and one of the few outside of the box writers on the subject
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Just heard her on Morning Joe, kept thinking, "what would
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What’s the thing about Steele & Guccifer 2.0?
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Control of the narrative.
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I think she is saying that, because the Steele report is full of errors (as Steele admits - it is preliminary and unsubstantiated research), it distorts and clouds our understanding of the actual Russian info-op. This also hampered the Dem response in 2016.
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I hope for more dialogue on this. I'm a reader both and very much respect the work of both. These are strange times.
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I’d like to see
@emptywheel at the WH briefing, asking a few Qs of Sourpuss Sanders.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Jane Mayer is not great.
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