Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Journalists - The New York Times

[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

The dossier’s latest blow came last year when the identity of Mr. Steele’s collector was revealed. .... His contacts within Russia appeared to be not Kremlin A-listers but instead childhood friends, college buddies or drinking pals.

In 2017, Mr. Danchenko claimed to the F.B.I. during a secret interview that Mr. Steele had “misstated” the information and had “exaggerated” its reliability.

This information has been publicly available since early 2019, at least in the form of "Source A got information from Source B while drinking at the bars with Source D and Source E." It's so nice that 'The Newspaper of Record' is so punctual in reporting on this.

[–] Dii_Casses [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

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Yeah old news but now a big name brand organization has finally murmured something about it.

The disconnect between what the Right "knows" and what the Left "knows" is pretty scary. Conservatives are at a slight advantage there; Leftist news is mainstream news, and conservatives will at least skim that. Leftists can't know what the Right is thinking without deliberately seeking it out. The closest they could come was Trump's Twitter feed, but even he was usually Johnny-Come-Lately about issues.

Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Journalists - The New York Times

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