As Ed wrote yesterday in his VIP post, the original publisher of the Steele Dossier, Ben Smith, has expressed some regrets about having dropped the stinking pile of horse manure into the public realm.
Most people don’t know this, but Clinton campaign operatives had shopped the Steele Dossier around trying to get journalists to publish it without success.
It’s not that they didn’t want to use the claims to bash Trump, but the claims were so ridiculous and unverified that they couldn’t find a way to get it out there without embarrassing themselves as credulous fools.
Any fool could see that it was ridiculous, even though the FBI pretended to believe claims made in the report in order to push forward their Crossfire Hurricane report. But at least they could do that without revealing the actual…
