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🧵THREAD🧵: First Steele memo to mention Russia hack of DNC July 19th 2016, three days before @wikileaks posted thousands of DNC emails on eve of Convention meeting. Intel based on info allegedly provided by Source E - @SergeiMillian. States WL used for "plausible deniability". 
Now, we know from #DanchenkoIndictment that he and @SergeiMillian never actually spoke, he was lying. Now, this could be eg of Steele dossier being based on news...
As @aaronjmate has so incisively pointed out. Meme of Russian hacking already well-seeded by this point. WaPo and NYT reports in mid-June had warned of Russian hacking (although content rather different to what was released) and @wikileaks published many DNC emails already
