emptywheel

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.

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

Except that 1) it was publicly available and 2) it's still wrong, w/no evidence to back the Rosneft allegation.

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.

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.

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.