{"id":1933684,"date":"2023-05-19T00:49:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-put-the-nail-in-the-coffin-but-christopher-steele-says-he-stands-by-his-dossier\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T00:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:51:42","slug":"durham-put-the-nail-in-the-coffin-but-christopher-steele-says-he-stands-by-his-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-put-the-nail-in-the-coffin-but-christopher-steele-says-he-stands-by-his-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham seals the deal, but Steele stands by dossier."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdurham-put-the-nail-in-the-coffin-but-christopher-steele-says-he-stands-by-his-dossier%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933684&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former British Spy Christopher Steele Stands by Discredited Dossier<\/h2>\n<p>The controversial dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/intelligence-community-assessment-on-covid-19-origins-ignored-readily-available-information\/\" title=\"Intelligence Community Assessment on COVID-19 Origins Ignored Readily Available Information\">widely discredited<\/a>, with a British judge ordering Steele to pay damages to a Russian bank that was falsely targeted in the report. Special Counsel John Durham has also released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-put-the-nail-in-the-coffin-but-christopher-steele-says-he-stands-by-his-dossier\/\" title=\"Durham seals the deal, but Steele stands by dossier.\">report highlighting numerous inaccuracies<\/a> and fabrications in the document.<\/p>\n<h3>Steele Defends His Work<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the criticism, Steele is standing by his dossier. He claims that the document, which was funded by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign, &#8220;has not been discredited&#8221; and that its &#8220;main tenets continue to hold up well.&#8221; Steele has called on American journalists to &#8220;put the record straight on this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steele&#8217;s report was heavily relied upon by the FBI during its investigation into whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia. However, no evidence has emerged to support the allegations made in the dossier. Steele&#8217;s sources and sub-sources have either admitted to fabricating the claims or said they were embellished in the dossier.<\/p>\n<h3>Durham&#8217;s Findings<\/h3>\n<p>According to Durham, Steele&#8217;s primary source for the dossier, Igor Danchenko, lied about his contacts with a Belarusian-American businessman he claimed was a major source for the dossier. Danchenko also lied to the FBI about his contacts with Democratic operative Charles Dolan, who provided some information that ended up in the dossier.<\/p>\n<p>The purported source for another salacious claim in the dossier\u2014that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen met with Kremlin officials in Prague\u2014disavowed the allegation in interviews with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">special counsel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these findings, Steele dismissed Durham&#8217;s report as &#8220;a partisan conspiracy theory.&#8221; However, Durham is not the first investigator to poke holes in Steele&#8217;s report. Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz also laid out many of the fabrications in the dossier in a report in December 2019.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Steele&#8217;s claims will hold up under further scrutiny. However, it is clear that the dossier has been widely discredited and that its accuracy is highly questionable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steele&#8217;s report has been widely discredited<\/li>\n<li>Special Counsel John Durham has released a report highlighting numerous inaccuracies and fabrications in the document<\/li>\n<li>Steele is standing by his dossier, despite the criticism<\/li>\n<li>No evidence has emerged to support the allegations made in the dossier<\/li>\n<li>Steele&#8217;s sources and sub-sources have either admitted to fabricating the claims or said they were embellished in the dossier<\/li>\n<li>Durham&#8217;s report has been dismissed by Steele as &#8220;a partisan conspiracy theory&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times, known for its liberal stance, has discredited Christopher Steele&#8217;s report, calling it flawed. Steele was ordered by a British judge to pay $23,000 in damages to a Russian bank falsely accused in the dossier. Special Counsel John Durham has released a report on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1933685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3715,11002,11773,13667,6990,10999],"class_list":["post-1933684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-deal","tag-dossier","tag-durham","tag-seals","tag-stands","tag-steele"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}