Just three days before Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, BuzzFeed News published what it aid were the “specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations” of the Steele Dossier. In essence, the Steele Dossier - built by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent contracted by a private investigation outfit working on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s campaign - contained allegation of a long-running connection and well-developed, “conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence that not only alleged that Donald Trump was, via his campaign, formally colluding with Russian election interference but that also that Trump was compromised by Russian intelligence. Often this determination takes the form of an assessment of a level of confidence in the sources/information rather than a declaration of absolute truth or falsity. That construction, not coincidently I would argue, make it similar to a DEA 6 or FBI 302 form that record raw intelligence (e.g., what sources and witnesses say) used by agents who then synthesize and evaluate the material in light of other evidence and intelligence to make a determination as to the veracity of the sources and information gathered. Compiled in 2016 and consisting of 16 reports totaling 35 pages, the Steele Dossier made no evaluation regarding confidence in the ultimate truth or falsity of its contents. The Steele Dossier itself was a form of raw intelligence not a finished intelligence report. As Jeff Stein writes on his excellent SpyTalk site, the so-called Steele Dossier “is in tatters.”įor clarity, the following comments about the Steele Dossier reflect my personal assessments and opinions.
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