@jpsb @Sanguine@XenaLee@mrclose@Cyber Liberty@mystery-ak One of the many places speaking to the Steele dossier as having correct information in it:
“The U.S. intelligence community took the allegations seriously.[15] The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) investigated every line of the dossier and spoke with two of Steele's sources.[16] The Mueller Report, a summary of the findings of the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, contained passing references to some the dossier's allegations but little mention of its more sensational claims.[16] Overall, some allegations of the dossier have been corroborated,[17] and others remain unverified, while one was rejected by the Mueller Report.
Meanwhile, in the July to September time frame, according to The Washington Post, CIA Director John Brennan had started an investigation with a secret task force "composed of several dozen analysts and officers from the CIA, the NSA and the FBI". At the same time, he was busy creating his own dossier of material documenting that "Russia was not only attempting to interfere in the 2016 election, they were doing so in order to elect Donald Trump ... [T]he entire intelligence community was on alert about this situation at least two months before [the dossier] became part of the investigation." The "Steele dossier has so far proven to be fairly accurate," LeTourneau wrote.[54] “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Russia_dossierThe book, "A Higher Loyalty", pages 211-227, cover the meeting with Trump on January 6, 2017, (two weeks before Inauguration Day), of the Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "This meeting was "sharing the most sensitive information, including sources and methods - precisely how we knew what we knew - spelling out in detail why we had achieved the unusual state of a joint high-confidence opinion that Russia had intervened extensively in an American presidential election.
The four agencies had joined in the assessment, which was both stunning and straightforward: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an extensive effort to influence the 2016 presidential election."
The Steele Dossier Russian interference information was presented with the other information, however, it had been decided Comey would tell Trump about the sensitive information in the Steele Dossier after this meeting. This part of the Dossier had not been proven true at this point. After the others left, Comey told him about the prostitutes supposedly being with him and Putin had this information on film. Comey told him the FBI wasn't saying they believed the information but they thought Trump should know this is out there.
Comey told him the Dossier was not an FBI document, that it was made by a private investigator and given to a number of people. The FBI had no control over it going public since it was not theirs. Two senators already had it, plus a news outlet had it. It was public information now.
