Steele Report Was The Sloppiest Class Project Ever
Daniel Greenfield |
Notably, the Steele Report was a sloppy joke. Despite supposedly being put together by a former intel agent, it had the same work ethic as a college freshman trying to finish a book report an hour before class for a book he hasn't read and doesn't think the professor read either.
Steele was asked during the deposition how he verified allegations about Gubarev's companies and whether he found “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla,” according to the newly released transcripts of the deposition.
“We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport,” Steele said.
When asked whether the former British spy understood how the website actually worked, he confessed that “I do not have any particular knowledge of that” and noted he didn’t understand at the time that the site has “no connection to any CNN reporters.”
“Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individuals’ assertions on the Internet?” an examiner asked Steele.
He replied: “No, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has [sic] some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site.”
Mistakes happen, but this is the sort of mistake a writer makes, not a spook. But Steele was never all that impressive. And he was likely just rewriting material given to him by Clinton people while trying to cut and paste stuff that would make it seem somewhat credible.
That's why the media was infuriated that BuzzFeed ran the report. It functioned much better as a behind-the-scenes smear document meant for reporters. Once people actually saw how sloppy it was, it became harder and harder to defend.
Yet the whole rotten infrastructure of Russiagate is built on its bones.
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Daniel Greenfield (@Sultanknish) is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an investigative journalist and writer focusing on radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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