John Durham’s indictments reflect poorly on the American media
The special counsel arrests one of the sources of the infamous Steele dossier
ON OCTOBER 17TH Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer who now runs a private research consultancy, appeared on ABC News. Mr Steele was being interviewed about a dossier that he had provided to the Democratic Party and to the FBI in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. It reported on Donald Trump’s business interests in Russia and his team’s relationships there. But most explosively, it also alleged he had possibly been captured on video indulging curious sexual tastes in the presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow in 2013. Mr Steele, asked whether he believes that this video exists, said, “I think it probably does.”
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “You’re in trouble”
United States November 13th 2021
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