Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team said that the actions of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier that contains unverified claims about President Trump’s ties to Russia, do not “remotely compare” to those of a Russian company’s in the 2016 elections.

“Acting as an anonymous source for media articles is not similar to conducting ‘information warfare against the United States of America,’” Mueller’s team wrote in a document filed on Friday and reported by Politico on Monday.

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