And here is the spreadsheet Nellie Ohr shared with her husband Bruce; You can clearly see how she has placed in one column all the names from the ‘Steele Dossier’ memos and their original source, that 2007 WSJ article “How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington” (written by Fusion GPS founders Glenn Simpson and Mary Jacoby, to target Manafort while he worked for the John McCain’s 2008 campaign).
In another column a brief characterization is attached to the name, particularly noting any potential ‘links’ to Trump associates or family members.
A third column, largely empty, shows attempts to find sources that can substantiate the ‘link’.
This spreadsheet demonstrates rather clearly that the ‘evidence’ wasn’t gathered so much as worked backwards to conform to a pre-existing narrative.
Nellie Ohr likely had access to NSA databases through her role as a Russian Translator, CIA researcher, and/or FBI contractor.
And Steele’s obviously no genius, his ‘report’ claims were laughed off by his own sub-sources, some sourced info was likely fabricated entirely, and he bollocksed little details like forgetting to format Flynn’s name like all the others when it was (obviously hastily and sloppily) added into the report.
This spreadsheet demonstrates rather clearly that the ‘evidence’ wasn’t gathered so much as worked backwards to conform to a pre-existing narrative.
That's EXACTLY my point. He knew what he was doing: writing a narrative compiled from various sources with one goal : trigger the FBI into investigating the Presidential campaign of the opposition. Hillary had the email investigation on her and it was public. It looked bad (and it was). Hillary Clinton / John Podesta wanted the FBI to investigate their opposition. They hired Steele. It worked. They triggered an investigation. The only part that didn't work was that the FBI investigation was not made public during the election to make Trump look bad and swing votes to Hillary Clinton.
Except ‘superspy’ Steele didn’t write that; a 5’1” little commie lady married to a senior DOJ lawyer squish did.
And it didn’t work through a feat of tradecraft; it worked because they were all dirty, compromised, traitors who thought they’d never have to ‘show their work’.
Otherwise, I completely agree with you, and would only add that the public was mislead through their faith in public institutions, and mindless acceptance of media brainwashing.
“Assembled” is not ‘written by’.
Just put the dossier side by side with this:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117674837248471543
And here is the spreadsheet Nellie Ohr shared with her husband Bruce; You can clearly see how she has placed in one column all the names from the ‘Steele Dossier’ memos and their original source, that 2007 WSJ article “How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington” (written by Fusion GPS founders Glenn Simpson and Mary Jacoby, to target Manafort while he worked for the John McCain’s 2008 campaign).
In another column a brief characterization is attached to the name, particularly noting any potential ‘links’ to Trump associates or family members.
A third column, largely empty, shows attempts to find sources that can substantiate the ‘link’.
This spreadsheet demonstrates rather clearly that the ‘evidence’ wasn’t gathered so much as worked backwards to conform to a pre-existing narrative.
Nellie Ohr likely had access to NSA databases through her role as a Russian Translator, CIA researcher, and/or FBI contractor.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JW-v-DOJ-Ohr-comms-production-6-01854-pgs-300-312.pdf
And Steele’s obviously no genius, his ‘report’ claims were laughed off by his own sub-sources, some sourced info was likely fabricated entirely, and he bollocksed little details like forgetting to format Flynn’s name like all the others when it was (obviously hastily and sloppily) added into the report.
That's EXACTLY my point. He knew what he was doing: writing a narrative compiled from various sources with one goal : trigger the FBI into investigating the Presidential campaign of the opposition. Hillary had the email investigation on her and it was public. It looked bad (and it was). Hillary Clinton / John Podesta wanted the FBI to investigate their opposition. They hired Steele. It worked. They triggered an investigation. The only part that didn't work was that the FBI investigation was not made public during the election to make Trump look bad and swing votes to Hillary Clinton.
Except ‘superspy’ Steele didn’t write that; a 5’1” little commie lady married to a senior DOJ lawyer squish did.
And it didn’t work through a feat of tradecraft; it worked because they were all dirty, compromised, traitors who thought they’d never have to ‘show their work’.
Otherwise, I completely agree with you, and would only add that the public was mislead through their faith in public institutions, and mindless acceptance of media brainwashing.