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

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/fbi-spreadsheet-exposed-folly-steele-dossier-claims

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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."
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Other entries dinged the Steele dossier for sloppiness like misspellings of key names, or for making claims that were debunked by official travel records like passport entry records.

"There doesn't appear to be any record of Trump visiting Baku or the presidential palace," one entry read, knocking down a claim the future president visited the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

Added another: "There is no record of Trump personally organizing a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) visit to Baku."

Likewise, one of the most famous claims of the now-discredited dossier — that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen flew to Prague in summer 2016 to help cover up a Russia-Trump plot — was debunked by analysts.

A link to the spreadsheet is in the article. The FBI knew in early 2017 or even late 2016 that the Steele Dossier was worthless, larded with falsehoods.
« Last Edit: October 14, 2020, 12:36:34 am by PeteS in CA »
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