re: Big story out of UK on British handling of Steele dossier

I think this went beyond that. Remember, this is post FISA. Steele had already successfully laundered his own Intel through Issikoff to get the Dossier past the courts.

This smells like a Steele trying to get GCHQ to continue to spy on Trump post election (and post Brennan, Flapper, and Lynch) with a side of CYA for the stuff that was done by other former spooks during the Papadopoulos deal.