16 December 2018

The Dossier

The Steele Dossier is one of the core elements of the ever-growing Trump/Russia scandal (details here). Donald Trump and his supporters insist it's all a fiction and fabrication.

Since its public release nearly two years ago, however, more and more of the dossier has been proven to be true and nothing substantial has been proven false.

On Friday, Lawfare ran an update (link here) about how recent filings in various criminal cases involving Donald Trump associates have served to further validate aspects of the dossier. "The dossier holds up well over time, and none of it, to our knowledge, has been disproven," the piece notes.

The dossier is raw intelligence, not reportage. Raw intelligence is acknowledged in the intelligence trade to not be 100 percent accurate but more like 85 percent to 90 percent active.

Against that background, the Lawfare piece carefully spells out all the aspects that have been proven true. It's a compelling read.

Once again, it appears the Trump camp's claims about the dossier are unfounded. Foiled by lies again.

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