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The New York Times podcast "The Daily" broke down the history of the "profoundly flawed" Steele dossier on Monday, with host Michael Barbaro commenting the document should never have had the level of media and political impact it did.
It's the latest media reckoning with the dossier, the series of memos by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele alleging an extensive conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton, as well as salacious allegations of blackmail tapes, and Trump-Russia contacts going back more than a decade.
"It seems we can clearly see now that the Steele dossier should never have had the life and the impact that it did," Barbaro said. "It should never have been used in the wiretap warrant for Carter Page, should never have been read into the congressional record, or featured on prime time segments on cable news."
Reporter Michael Schmidt ran through the history of the dossier, noting it began circulating in the media in 2016 as a rumor mill buzzed about Trump-Russia connections while he went on to defeat Hillary Clinton. Then-FBI Director James Comey briefed President-elect Trump shortly before he took office on the 35-page intelligence file, including its allegation that Trump had once hired prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow and there was video of it.
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