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

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The SAME damn lies from the SAME damn people and they all knew each other! NOT VERIFIED!!! IT WAS A HOAX!!!! And worst yet, it was coming from.....you guessed it: THE RUSSIANS!!!

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A point many people here seem to forget because they are so intent on saying Russian collusion is a hoax. Well collusion was a hoax, but it doesn't mean the Russians weren't involved in the information laundering to Steele because they clearly were.

There's three possibilities for Steele's behavior:

1) He was a useful idiot who actually believed his Russian contacts were telling him the truth.

2) He knew it was fake news, but peddled it for his clients (Fusion/Hillary) anyway. To really stick it to Trump, he peddled it to MI6 and FBI and used his reputation as a former MI6 operative for credibility.

3) He was actually a Russian asset unbeknownst to British intel and the FBI. He is a prime candidate for someone the Russians would recruit: a former head of the Russia desk at MI6; a guy who was involved in far-left politics in college; and a guy who probably wasn't getting rich from his MI6 pension.

Despite which of the three is true, Steele's reputation is forever ruined (at best). At worst he is going to prison.

The fact the Russians laundered the info to Steele is something that blew a hole in the collusion story from the start. If the Russians were so in bed with Trump, why were they spreading rumors about golden showers? This is a question I always asked myself and I never heard the MSM address. I mean it's a glaring inconsistency.