found. he claims, at least to his friends and associates, that he was dismay bid whed by what he . so we talked to a guy who was his former boss at mi6, richard dearlove, and he told us that indeed steele and his partner christopher boroughs had come to him during 2016 asking for advice, they unburdened themselves, in a sense, he said, because they were in a difficult situation and were unsure what to do. dearlove called on his own experience before he was head of mi6, he ran -- he was a significant figure in the british embassy in washington and he recalled without providing detail an instance in which british intelligence had come across some artifact of information about a former vice presidential hopeful some years ago. and what dearlove told us he advised these two former employees of his was "what i did at that time was to recognize how sensitive this was. the most important thing is to