Christopher Steele believes his dossier on Trump-Russia is 70-90% accurate

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/christopher-steele-trump-russia-dossier-accurate?CMP=share_btn_tw

One of the reasons his dossier was taken seriously in Washington in 2016 was Steele’s reputation in the US for producing reliable reports on Russia, according to Harding’s book.

Between 2014 and 2016, he authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine, which were commissioned by private clients but shared widely within the state department and passed across the desks of the secretary of state, John Kerry, and the assistant secretary Victoria Nuland, who led the US response to the annexation of Crimea and the covert invasion of eastern Ukraine.

The sources for those reports were the same as those quoted in the dossier on Trump, which included allegations that the Kremlin had personally compromising material on the US president including sex tapes recorded during a trip to Moscow in 2013, and that Trump and his associates actively colluded with Russian intelligence to influence the election in his favour.

Years earlier, Steele shared the results of his investigation of the global football organisation, Fifa, with a senior FBI official in Rome that let to an investigation by US federal prosecutors, and ultimately the arrest of seven Fifa officials.

[Not Ruth]

1. I do not understand that percentage re his own dossier

Shouldn’t it be 100%?

[Pope George Ringo II]

3. If some of the material is questionable, and marked as such, it explains it

A report like this should be assumed to have stuff which is ironclad, stuff which is likely but not proven, and stuff which is just reported. He can't really leave out everything which might not be true, so he includes it with a caveat.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. What the dossier was purporting wasn't necessarily facts that were true in and of themselves...

....but rather rumors that had been circulating regarding Trump's behavior, true or imagined, which could be used against him as kompromat.

Steele could vouch for his dossier's accuracy in its reporting of the rumors, but as to the rumors themselves, some might be true and others might not.

There's a fine line distinction here.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. New book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding

'Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win'

[Gothmog]

5. A large portion of the Steele Dossier has been confirmed

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. No wonder why Russia wants to discredit Steele.

Victoria Nuland used him, and according to the Russians and those who parrot them, she's singlehandedly responsible for the revolution against the pro-Russian and Manafort client Viktor Yanukovych, the former President of Ukraine who fled Ukraine for Russia in February 2014.

You see, she handed out cookies. Cookies!