![]() ![]() ![]() To determine the overall results I scored one point for each confirmed allegation, one-half point for an allegation that seems to be circumstantially valid or consistent with other events but isn’t specifically confirmed, zero points for anything that remains unconfirmed, a negative one-half point for something that appears to be debunked but does have some apparent circumstantial validity, and -1 point for anything that is clearly and totally debunked. Therefore, there isn’t a perfect correlation between the two reports, but there is quite a bit of overlap. Where possible, I will refer to Mueller's findings otherwise, I will rely on open-source press accounts, which appear largely credible. ![]() Now that we have had access to the redacted Mueller report for a month, just what is the truth, as we can now assess it?Īfter doing well over 100 diaries as part of a Trump Russia Corruption Timeline I have drawn together those resources to analyze and compare Steele’s dossier with Mueller’s report and press reports which indicate that about 73 percent of his allegations have been either fully or partially confirmed - all of which is summarized at the end.īefore I delve into the details, I have to make some caveats. The first fact that needs to be admitted is that special Counsel Robert Mueller did not try to prove or disprove the allegations of the Steele memos. His focus was on identifying prosecutable crimes, and the counter-intelligence portion of the investigation largely remained within the normal FBI rather than part of his efforts. Having pulled on this thread I found that the document referred to by Meadow’s is 98 percent redacted, and what is visible doesn’t support any of his claims that Steele was a “political partisan” rather than someone who was legitimately and seriously concerned that Trump may have been essentially a fully cultivated asset of Vladamir Putin’s. Meadows’ statement came in response to a federal document recently unveiled by a Citizens United lawsuit - an email from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec, who met with Steele in October 2016 and recounted his desire to spread the lurid allegations of his since-debunked dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump. “The fact that Christopher Steele and his partisan research document were treated in any way seriously by our Intelligence Community leaders amounts to malpractice.” “fficials at the FBI and (Department of Justice) DOJ were well aware the dossier was a lie - from very early on in the process all the way to when they made the conscious decision to include it in a FISA application,” Meadows said Tuesday in a statement to The Hill’s John Solomon. ![]() Mark Meadows (who claims the “FBI knew the Steele dossier was a lie” long before they “spied on the Trump campaign”) would like it that way. Perhaps that’s because some people have already made up their minds, and because some other people, like Rep. It is a question that has had the country riveted for the the past two-and-a-half years: Just how many allegations within the so-called “Steele dossier” have proven accurate? How much of it is true? How much of it has been debunked?įor some reason, it doesn’t seem like many people have even attempted to find that answer, even after we’ve received the redacted version of the Mueller report. ![]()
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