emptywheel

You're suggesting we should discount Isikoff's link confirming it or his on the record confirmation of it?

Do you have Isikoff's link or reference to his statement that he relied on the Steele dossier? I haven't seen it. You could be right but there seems to be doubt...the only point I was making.

Isikoff says point blank early in the podcast "I should point out that if you take a look at our story, which is dated September 23rd…that did not rely on what Christopher Steele told me." Says he relied on an earlier letter by Harry Reid and a law enforcement official, more.

Well, @isikoff himself can explain himself if he so chooses. Yes, he met with Steele but is *clearly* claiming in the podcast that he relied on a bunch of other sources for his story and did not rely on what Christopher Steele told him.

You're claiming when Isikoff wrote, "Another of Steele’s reports, first reported by Yahoo News last September, involved alleged meetings last July between then-Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page" that wasn't Isikoff explaining himself?

I can't explain the discrepancy but @Isikoff can.