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“Steele Dossier” is not ‘Russian desinfo’. It’s not ‘raw intel’. It’s paid-for dirt on opposition candidate obtained by private contractor. Steele’s former MI6 boss says it’s not verified, not veriafablie and he did not believe it. You pay for dirt—you get dirt.
Sir John Scarlett, former head of MI6 on the Steele dossier: “I looked at it and I thought these are commercial intelligence reports; I don't know about the sources -- they might be right, they might be wrong and they'll probably be overrated and they've been overrated”
Scarlett: “they were commercial intelligence reports and they were visibly that so there's a question of why they were there and where they came from and who commissioned them and so on ... all I can say, is they are overrated”
