The Steele dossier was thoroughly discredited. You are so incredibly biased and everyone sees it. From the Washington Post article on IG Horowitz's report:
Horowitz absolutely shredded the dossier, writing in his report on FBI FISA abuse that "The FBI concluded, among other things, that although consistent with known efforts by Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections, much of the material in the Steele election reports, including allegations about Donald Trump and members of the Trump campaign relied upon in the Carter Page FISA applications, could not be corroborated; that certain allegations were inaccurate or inconsistent with information gathered by the Crossfire Hurricane team; and that the limited information that was corroborated related to time, location and title information, much of which was publicly available." ---------
Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart.
Erik Wemple
 Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, moderates a panel at a forum called “Perspectives on National Security,” at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Oct. 2017. (Steven Senne/AP)
Fifth in a series on the media’s handling of the Steele dossier. See Parts 1, 2, 3and 4.
In March 2017, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow invited Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) onto her show to talk Russia. She noted that in a House hearing, Schiff had cited the 35-page dossier of memorandums compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Ever since that document had burst into national politics — and surfaced on the BuzzFeed website in January 2017 — Maddow had closely monitored its reception. |
