When his superiors interviewed him, he didn't tell them he'd talked to Susan Watts, the BBC reporter who had produced some stories about the dossier that were similar to, if less incendiary than, Gilligan's.
I wonder if this "calm before the storm" statement has anything to do with news about the dossier that broke today.
I set up this website because the mainstream media didn't, couldn't or wouldn't grasp that the received wisdom about the dossier - that it was written by Scarlett and/or the Joint Intelligence Committee - was untrue.
But late Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper essentially confirmed that information about the dossier had been included in his overall briefing last week regarding Russia's efforts to get Trump elected.
What if? What if, hypothetically, Donald Trump did actually pay a load of Russian sex workers to piss on President Obama's hotel bed, as alleged in that dossier about him? .
Unfortunately for Blair, Lord Butler recently called him "disingenuous", saying that his claims about the dossier "could simply not have been justified by the material that the intelligence community provided to him".
But Brennan said recently, on "Meet the Press," that he heard just "snippets" about the dossier "in press circles," emphasizing that he didn't see the dossier until well after the election, and said that "it did not play any role whatsoever" in the intelligence community's appraisal of Russian election meddling.
That day, in a top-secret Oval Office meeting, the chiefs of the nation's top intelligence agencies briefed Obama and Biden and some national-security officials for the first time about the dossier's allegation that Trump's campaign team may have colluded with the Russians.
He asked if F.B.I. agents knew about the dossier, and, after being assured that they did, that was apparently the end of it.
Trump also declined to share information that he reportedly received about the dossier from U.S. intelligence officials, saying the meeting is classified, but said "it's a disgrace that information would be let out".
