Declassified FBI spreadsheet exposes folly of Steele dossier's uncorroborated claims

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It was all disinformation. Straight from Putin's intelligence agencies, and Democrats carried the water for Putin.

Now the question is, are Dims like Schiff compromised by Putin.


An FBI spreadsheet that evaluated the credibility of Christopher Steele's dossier found almost no corroborating evidence from official intelligence reporting, leaving analysts to grope after flimsy sources like a Democratic operative, a Russian propaganda news site and U.S. news media story leaks that amounted to circular reporting.

In one entry, FBI analysts tried to evaluate one of Steele's most lurid claims — later debunked — that Trump was videotaped committing lewd sex acts with prostitutes at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Moscow. "There is no confirmation that Trump stayed here," they found. "There is no 'Presidential Suite' currently listed."

The 94-page document was obtained Monday by Just the News in a mostly declassified state, with some redactions. You can read it here:


Another entry encapsulated much of the FBI's assessment of Steele's reporting: It seemed based on Internet rumors that could never be corroborated.

"Other than open source speculation, the only reporting that mentions this is the Steele Reporting from 5 July 2016 and 2 August 2016," the analysts wrote about a claim in the dossier that the Russian spy agency known as the FSB had a "pervasive and sophisticated" operation focused on Trump.

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“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
 

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