The Washington Post’s opinion page Wednesday was a big fat valentine to Christopher Steele, author of the infamous Trump dossier, from Christian Caryl, an editor with The Post.
Christopher Steele is a hero – and Americans owe him their thanks https://t.co/dCmr7O6LlK by @ccaryl
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) February 14, 2018
OK, we’ll bite: why is Steele a hero and why do Americans owe him their thanks?
Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose claims about Donald Trump’s ties with Russia hold center stage in Washington right now, drives Republicans crazy. They have recommended that the Department of Justice open a criminal investigation into his work. They released a formerly classified memo by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) that vilifies him — and now they are holding back a Democratic brief that tries to correct the record.
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What is it about Steele that possesses them so? Could it be that his findings from the summer of 2016 — when the world was still wondering why Trump kept saying such nice things about Russia’s Vladimir Putin — proved so extraordinarily prescient?
Extraordinarily prescient? Keep in mind that Caryl writes in the same piece that the Devin Nunes memo was “thoroughly discredited.”
He also writes of the dangers Steele faced traversing “the world of Kremlin intrigue, where mysterious deaths are a common tool of statecraft. This is the world that Christopher Steele had to plumb, at considerable personal risk to himself, to chart Trump’s illicit entanglements.”
Um, he was doing an opposition research job for Fusion GPS and getting paid pretty nicely for it, we assume. And just what were those illicit entanglements he charted? Can we see them?
As this excellent piece makes clear, demonizing Christopher Steele is not only a gross injustice but a dangerous distraction from the real issues. https://t.co/07C5sEYsvC
— LarryDiamond (@LarryDiamond) February 14, 2018
Lol. Horseshit, child. https://t.co/IOQjzWh9uy
— Rev. Ducati? (@Reverend_Ducati) February 14, 2018
It's a "distraction." You have your instructions, folks. https://t.co/vzx8AevIHm
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) February 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/963887744526188544
You have absolutely no idea whether Steele is a hero or an idiot or a bad guy or a good guy. This is all argle-bargle. https://t.co/SgMtlRN1QE
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) February 14, 2018
Really?? According to news coverage of this guy, he’s pretty sketchy to say the least. Even the FBI cut him loose. https://t.co/8uYOxsur94
— janeann (@jane_ann_x) February 14, 2018
The state of the deep state is not looking so good when they have to publish a 1,000-word puff piece on the guy who basically came up with a catlady fanfic that only Buzzfeed would publish. But nothing in the dossier has been refuted! ? https://t.co/u0eEP9w6Rr
— nuPlissken (@nuPlissken) February 14, 2018
Don’t forget to thank Steele should you ever see him. He’s a hero.
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Yeah, about that person killed over the Steele dossier…
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