But he thought that Trump needed to know about the dossier, even if the allegations were false, for two reasons: it could prove "impactful" if the dossier became public, and the dossier could be used as leverage over the President-elect.
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The BBC may have thought it had a scoop at the time, but the inquiry has shown Mr Kelly to have been too far from the action to know anything definitive about how the dossier was put together.
Despite its obviously louche tone, this letter was submitted to the judges in a "secret dossier," which Dreyfus and his lawyers were not allowed to know about, let alone see.
The government does not want us to know how its spin doctors sexed-up the dossier that took us to war in Iraq, so it continues to withhold information and mislead parliament.
It further describes Trump's being briefed on the dossier without explaining why: because the Intelligence Community thought it important for Trump to know the rumors being spread about him.
The Prime Minister and his colleagues didn't appear to know much about Kelly, beyond the fact that he was a government scientist who had contributed to the historical section of the dossier.
nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials," the memo says.
Washington Democrats were preparing a lengthy dossier to go after Mr. Bruning.
