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The ‘close enough’ defense: Media make excuses for discredited Steele dossier reporting

By Becket Adams
Published November 18, 2021 1:00am ET
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The ‘close enough’ defense: Media make excuses for discredited Steele dossier reporting
The Steele dossier, which the FBI used as justification to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page, is almost certainly a work of fiction. In fact, the dossier that also served as the foundation for the media’s manic coverage of supposed Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign may itself be a Russian counterintelligence propaganda […]

The Steele dossier, which the FBI used as justification to spy on onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page, is almost certainly a work of fiction.

In fact, the dossier that also served as the foundation for the media’s manic coverage of supposed Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign may itself be a Russian counterintelligence propaganda product.

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