A note on the "stunning" Kavalec State Dept memo.
A plain reading of the text shows that Steele DID NOT say he was "keen to see this information come to light prior to November 8."
It was an unnamed institution that was keen to do that.
I'm not saying Steele wasn't keen. I'm saying this memo doesn't prove he was. We already know he wanted to help defeat Trump. This memo is useful context but no smoking gun.
John Solomon, whose work I love, made the leap in the original article.
Sen. Lyndsey Graham repeated this mistake in his letters to Mike Pompeo and Michael Horowitz.
So Steele reports to Kavalec that his client was eager to get the info out before the election––proof of motive that the "client" wanted to impact the election. Feels like a much bigger story went unreported.
Notably, Solomon clarifies that it was the "client" who was keen. Graham doesn't make the clarification.
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