Thread by @ClimateAudit

false Cohen in Prague story is curious anomaly in Steele dossier. US intel agencies worked overtime to portray it as "Russian" disinformation (rather than Beltway disinformation). But false story persisted (e.g. McClatchy), attributed to sources supposedly independent of Steele

https://twitter.com/joyofsiam2/status/1441619949663899652

my working theory on this anomaly has been the topic of Cohen in Prague was assigned to Danchenko by Fusion/Perkins Coie, with Danchenko then constructing an elaborate and entirely fictional account of the meeting in best Our Man in Havana style, attributing story to Galkina

but the provenance of the specific wrong information of Cohen in Prague remained a mystery, other than it probably had something to do with US surveillance operations (making a mistake).

Current theory: wrong information came from misinterpreted Neustar data, which was passed by Joffe to Perkins Coie and DNC, then to Fusion, then to Steele, who asked Danchenko to dig into it. Resulting in usual Danchenko fiction but this time based on a diagnostic false premise.

and rather than the diagnostic false premise pointing towards "Russian" disinformation, as told over and over by US intel agencies and Senate committees, it points towards US surveillance state info being passed to Democrats.