Possibly because they had been excited by language that was, just as much as the dossier that started all the fuss, relentlessly sexed up.
That quote contains a number of highly questionable assertions (perhaps most glaringly the idea that the investigation was "based upon" the Steele dossier; it started months earlier, as even House Republicans have acknowledged).
The foundation gave him a leave, and he moved to Atlanta, where his partner, a writer named Lauren Watel, lives, and, on the recommendation of a friend who said it might help him grieve if he wrote about Gabriel, he started the dossier.
When Manning, now 26 and one of the N.F.L.'s best quarterbacks, learned that Tony Dungy had been named the new coach of the Indianapolis Colts in January, he called Brad Johnson and John Lynch, two of Dungy's former players in Tampa, and started another dossier.
Faulty intelligence Before Sir John started, "dodgy dossiers", weapons of mass destruction and who was misled by whom was what many people thought the inquiry would focus on.
A couple of years later, as Carrington began to learn about the central role Hayne and West played in the state's criminal justice system, his office started assembling dossiers on the two men and filing relief petitions in the cases in which their testimony may have had an impact on a guilty verdict.
The final cast member, Aaron Barr, then CEO of HBGary Federal, started creating personal dossiers on Hunton & Williams employees to display his prowess as a social media ninja – his way of convincing the law firm that he could train them in the perils of social media.
Some have ready-made dossiers, and others start from scratch, selling individually tailored information.
Nunes impugned the motives of former British spy Christopher Steele without actually contradicting anything he reported, and he confirmed that the Steele dossier was not the reason the FBI started investigating the Trump campaign, as Trump partisans had been claiming.
