re: John McCain dispatched a trusted aide across the Atlantic to get dirty dossier

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The author of the reports had been insistent on blotting out references to his Russian sources in the copies he gave to the press, including the Guardian, out of fear for their safety.

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Here's a telling bit from The Guardian. Whoever authored the report (Orbis could be simply a scapegoat), they shopped it directly to the press. The Guardian is saying in their own piece that the author of the report gave it to multiple media outlets with some redactions and that they themselves were one of them.

That leads me to believe it is not compiled by an opposition research firm. It was not composed by Orbis. It's a huge fabrication. What oppo research firm shops this to the media directly after an election?