The Steele dossier has long since obviously been simply an exercise in paid tittle-tattle. The latest developments further confirm this – though the allegation that indirectly one of the sources for the material was in fact one of the people paying for it – a Clinton associate – is quite spicy. Don’t expect the liberal media to cover this any time soon.
Incidentally – this method of getting informers to tell you what you want to hear and then using it as “intelligence” is a standard tactic of British Intelligence. This was of course how they duped the believe-what-the-papers-say section of the British public into supporting the Iraq war. Steele was just doing what he had presumably been doing or learning about for much of his professional career.
The New Observer 