This is what I don't understand about the attacks on the Steele memo. The things in it have largely turned out to be corroborated. If a campaign had paid to run a title search on Trump's car, that doesn't mean the title is wrong.https://twitter.com/JaneMayerNYer/status/971765034715099136 …
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The Page stuff was corroborated. There are also errors in it.
Right: it's a series of near misses so consistent (to say nothing of how painfully behind it was on the hack-and-leak and other digital stuff) that it raises real questions.
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The Page meeting was the only bit I found especially interesting in the whole memo, because it is very specific, very few people could claim it within source competence and it mostly lines up with what Page admits to at HPSCI
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Except that 1) it was publicly available and 2) it's still wrong, w/no evidence to back the Rosneft allegation.
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I mean, there's a ton I find interesting about the dossier, but that's largely about some timing issues and how it could be so hopelessly wrong on the digital stuff.
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Schiff's memo seemed to imply the FBI had corroborated the Page part of the dossier. You could maybe argue it didn't corroborate SPECIFICALLY the Rosneft deal, but it would have had to at least corroborate the meeting of those specific Russians.
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Sure. But Schiff's claims of corroboration are, in public form, not A = A. That is, not corroboration. Warner has said nothing has been corroborated (nor refuted), and he's more careful than Schiff is.
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If we pretend the dossier came out right now and is just a statement on what happened, instead of trying to view it as a predictive-document, it states quite a few things that seem to be correct. If you put out a doc saying Russia wanted to elect Trump. That is corroborated.
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And then gets almost every detail wrong.
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I'm not saying the dossier will never get anything wrong. I'm saying its incorrect to claim nothing about it was corroborated. Either way its a tiny piece of the FBI/Mueller investigation and people focus on it too much on both sides.
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I think past practice shows they'll claim they corroborate the dossier, even when they are instead things that Steele by all rights should have gotten: esp Fusion-tied June 9 meeting and a drunken no-opsec Papadopoulos in his backyard.
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