Years later, Trump dossier still frustrates verification efforts
by Byron York
| March 21, 2019 06:30 PM
Last August, House investigators interviewed FBI deputy assistant director Jonathan Moffa about the Trump dossier, the collection of sensational allegations about Donald Trump and Russia compiled for Democrats during the 2016 campaign by the former British spy Christopher Steele. Republican lawyers had a simple question. Had the FBI confirmed any of the claims in the dossier?
Moffa's response set a new standard for non-answers.
"So, I like to talk about this in kind of a living sense," he began. "Though, because the idea is, you're never — you're constantly evaluating that reporting, you're constantly looking at incoming intelligence streams and investigative results. It's not a snapshot in time thing where you would look at reporting and say, it is — we have nothing to refute this today."
Moffa had more. "You have to constantly be sort of doing that," he continued. "And so, our analytic process in looking at this reporting and all reporting, really, is that more ongoing sense. So at the time, we are constantly re-evaluating, as time goes on, is the information here supported by facts we have elsewhere, or refuted by facts we have elsewhere?"
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