Representatives close to Clinton claim she never saw the dossier during the campaign and wishes the information had gotten out before November.
Republicans contend the FBI relied excessively on the dossier during its investigation and to obtain a secret wiretap application on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
As we discovered during the Iraq dossier affair the views of the joint intelligence committee on some subjects are no more likely to be correct than anyone else's.
The disclosure consists of more than 150 pages of communications from the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) during the process of drafting the dossier.
(It is also the case that the work that led to the dossier itself was initially funded during the primary by an anti-Trump Republican billionaire, Paul Singer, before Democrats paid for further work during the general election).
After publication of the dossier assessment, the committee conducts a commenting procedure and hearing, during which the pharmaceutical company responsible and other specified parties may submit comments.
The dossier has been handed to investigators.
The dossier was a mistake.
Benedict left the dossier for Francis.
The BBC, not the dossier, had become the story.
