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Charlie Savage, national security and legal policy correspondent for the New York Times , played defense on behalf of the now-discredited “Steele dossier” that led to the first Trump impeachment, in Thursday’s “ Discredited Steele Dossier Doesn’t Undercut Russia Inquiry .”
The infamous tissue of rumors and lies that would foster the false “collusion”-with-Russia narrative (a word the Times once tossed over Trump-related stories like salt) was put together by British spy Christopher Steele as opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee on behalf of candidate Hillary Clinton. Theconspiratorial stew dishonestly used by the FBI to persuade a court to authorize a wiretap of Trump campaign staffer Carter Page.
Yet the document was treated seriously as an excuse to launch investigations into Trump and his associates, under the rubric of “Russiagate.”
Savage is defensive, perhaps because his paper swallowed the conspiracy whole. In 2017 the paper noted “ the respectable credentials of the British spy, Christopher Steele ,” and even gave the FUSION GPS authors of the dubious dossier a do-over via op-ed in November 2019 under the headline “Don’t Let Trump Rewrite History. ”
Savage wrote: Former President Donald J. Trump and his allies have stepped up an effort to conflate the so-called Steele dossier with the Russia investigation following the indictment of a researcher for the document on charges that he lied to the F.B.I. about some of its sources. Mr. Trump and his supporters have long sought to use the flaws of the dossier to discredit the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — and the nature of numerous links between Russia and the Trump campaign — as a “hoax.” But the available evidence indicates that the dossier was largely tangential to the Russia investigation. Here is a look at the facts. Many things that were not immediately apparent about the dossier have since become clearer. It grew out of a political opposition research effort to dig up information about Mr. Trump funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party…. “Not immediately apparent” because the Times and the rest of the anti-Trump press had no […]
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