Declassified FBI spreadsheet exposes folly of Steele dossier’s uncorroborated claims
BY John Solomon | Updated: October 12, 2020 – 10:54pm
Document obtained by Just the News shows almost no intel reporting to support Steele’s claims, except for suspect sources like Sputnik or the brother of a DNC operative.
In one entry, FBI analysts tried to evaluate one of Steele’s most lurid claims — later debunked — that Trump was videotaped committing lewd sex acts with prostitutes at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Moscow. “There is no confirmation that Trump stayed here,” they found. “There is no ‘Presidential Suite’ currently listed.”
The 94-page document was obtained Monday by Just the News in a mostly declassified state, with some redactions.
Another entry encapsulated much of the FBI’s assessment of Steele’s reporting: It seemed based on Internet rumors that could never be corroborated.
“Other than open source speculation, the only reporting that mentions this is the Steele Reporting from 5 July 2016 and 2 August 2016,” the analysts wrote about a claim in the dossier that the Russian spy agency known as the FSB had a “pervasive and sophisticated” operation focused on Trump.
Other entries dinged the Steele dossier for sloppin….
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