Before the Papadopoulos drunken leak to the Australians, we had no way to PROVE the dossier wasn't the source of the FBI investigation initially. It was reported that the FBI had the investigation going long before the dossier started and that the dossier merely confirmed what the FBI already knew.
Schindler had always said that when he did his own research on the dossier and hit up former associates and experts, they never could verify some aspects of it because of how Deza is often finding its way into the document.
He's just trying to raise the dialogue around the topic and to force people to think more critically about how intelligence reports are done
thats fine, but the way he is saying implies that its all bullshyt
and Steele just got got
hes muddying the waters
this bullshyt isnt "forcing people to think more critically about how intelligence reports are done"
this is a country where tens of millions of people were too fukking stupid to not be sucked in by Cheeto, theyre barely smart enough to cross the street alone nevermind to be enlightened by reading on twitter about the intricacies of data collection and confirmation.
he's muddying the waters by repeating this nonsense again and again