the question, how did he know what he knew then? if i take your inference, you re saying by knowing it then and early before everyone else did, before the media did, before it was really public, that suggests that he had good sourcing? well, i think we can look at a couple things on suggest he has good sourcing. first of all, christopher steele a well known entity within intelligence circles. he was based in russia for a long time. he was head of the russia desk. he is known cia and fbi. he actually worked the fbi on their fifa investigation prior to this. so he is someone trusted within the industry. so i think that length credence to this document. and i think you take a look at what he produced in june and that in and of itself does not suggest that everything in the dossier is true. but there is enough that has been corroborated over time that i think it begs on the part of mueller to take a close look at
understand that the fsb is not quite as capable as the kgb. so, you know, i have some connections in intelligence circles, so this is quite possibly sloppy. and let s not forget this is what i was talking about before the russian hacking, whatever it is, is based on a multi-layered type of organization. and part of that organization, these are independent operators. these are hackers. these are anarchists. they re very hard to control. so this is you know, if i m in the fsb right now, i m scratching my head and saying, what are we doing here because ultimately i think this is going to backfire. i don t think it s going to influence the election, and it will probably make the incoming president more inclined to deal with the russians more as an adversary rather than as a friend because europe has been