The Steele dossier: a bunch of lies peddled by a Trump hating British citizen

We now know that the only real justification for Obama's Intelligence Community(IC) spying on the Trump campaign was the infamous Steele dossier.

The first thing to note is that Steele is a former spy and a British citizen.

The second thing to note is that his work was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.

The third thing to note is that we know that Steele told at least on person that Trump had to be stopped from becoming President.

The fourth thing is that all of the sources for the dossier are anonymous Russian sources.

The fifth thing is that the FBI has admitted it hasn't been able to verify the contents of the dossier.

The sixth thing is that even before the FBI used the dossier to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign they knew that some of the claims in it were not true.

So let's pause for a second and recognize that the dossier that was used to justify the IC spying on the Trump campaign was opposition research generated by a foreign national based on anonymous and unverifiable Russian sources which was paid for by Trump's political opponent.

No wonder that the FBI failed to tell the FISA court that Hillary paid for it and that they lied to the FISA court and implied that they'd verified the contents of the dossier--a rule of all evidence submitted to the FISA court is that it must be verified but the FBI submitted the dossier and later Comey admitted that the FBI had not in fact verified it.

Clearly if the FBI had used a story from the National Enquirer, you know the place where all the two headed aliens kidnapped Elvis stories pop up, they would have had a better chance of the contents being true.

The FBI did manage to find one of Steele's sub sources who said that the dossier was made up out of whole cloth.

That's not too surprising since when Steele was sued in an English court for things his dossier said about a British citizen Steele told the court that nothing in the dossier was verified and it should only be considered a starting point for an investigation. A far cry for how he pitched it to the American press.

Another huge problem is that Steele hasn't set foot in Russia since 2009. Yet somehow he managed to get senior Russian officials to reveal to him an immensely important and highly secret program; Putin's efforts to suborn Trump.

In Putin's Russia talking about Putin's secrets will get you "accidentally" beaten to death in prison.  So how could Steele have managed to get a "senior Russian Foreign Ministry Figure" and a "former top level Russian intelligence officer still active inside the Kremlin" to wax eloquent about Putin's efforts to control Trump?

The FSB, the new name for the KGB, would be monitoring phone calls from overseas to key Russian officials and would have immediately known of their treachery. Yet no one who corresponds to the descriptions Steele gave has "disappeared".

The most credible scenario is that Steele, a foreigner who hates Trump, made it all up in order to help Hillary win.

After spending tens of millions of dollars and two years Mueller's crack team were unable to verify a single accusation in the dossier.

Yet today Democrats still cite it as credible.