Can someone confirm/clarify this?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

So the 35 page dossier that we all read last night, that contains all the juicy stuff like the peeing prostitutes in the Moscow Ritz Carlton, that was authentic in as much that it was actually complied by an intelligence agent. Correct?

The information in the 35 page dossier has not necessarily confirmed or verified, but the document itself is in fact an authentic intelligence document. Correct?

And the 2 page summary that was presented to Trump at the intelligence briefing was in fact a summary of the 35 page dossier that we read last night. Right?

I just want to try to get an accurate sense of what is real. The notion that the 35 page dossier was something typed up by some alt-right neckbeard on 4Chan seems ridiculous and absurd but I want to confirm that what we saw was in fact legit in as much it was the actual intelligence document that was the basis for the 2 page summary.

[global1]

1. This Document Was Supposedly Around For A Number Of Months And Many DC People Were Privy To It......

I'm just wondering what else might be floating around out there that we don't know about yet?

[HoneyBadger]

9. Every major media organization sat on it til CNN released it

I am surprised that Obama was never briefed on it and that Trump never had it

[HoneyBadger]

13. Brian Fallon, Hil's spokesperson, said that major news outlets had the dossier before the election

Brian Fallon ?@brianefallon
Today has brought a gush of reporting that outlets knew about and sat on prior to November 8
cc: @GlenCaplin1
https://twitter.com/PaulBlu/status/818985935450894337 …

[Delphinus]

2. So glad you asked ...

as I wanted that confirmation too.

[bettyellen]

3. Was info compiled by a former M16 (British secret service) with extensive experience in Russia

Compiled originally for Trump oppo group (sounded like GOP) and then for Dem oppo group.

Our intelligence community says this person has always been credible. The Guardian says he is very credible .
The info contains specific caveats when info is chatter and not verifiable. So people discrediting it on that basis are full of shit.

What's more- 4-Chan and Reddit are totally swamped with trump trolls. Have been for more than a year.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Thanks.

That's what I thought.

[bettyellen]

10. 4-Chan and Reddit were where this crap was also spread to Bernie supporters ...

There is a very ugly RW pro Russia and Trump pushback in all stories about politics in all subbreddits. They're really like cockroaches drowning out all the other voices.
It was reading them last spring that I realized some of my friends (as well as people here who ended up founding JPR) were being brainwashed by trolls.
Their schtick now is to pretend everyone but Trump wants war w Russia- same as the situation w the "CIA giving us false intel" when it was actually Cheney.

[GusBob]

5. Apparantly John McCain found it important enough to give to the FBI

one version is the Senator traveled to Europe to get the intel

Ask JEB! I think the Bush family is behind all this

[citood]

6. My understanding, according to CNN reporting

Is that a retired British intelligence agent was hired to do opposition research on candidate Trump...and he put the 35 pages together.

[bettyellen]

12. The 35 pages are basically a bunch of raw notes compiled over a period of time...

And they do contain disclaimers as to what is not known or even likely verifiable. These gotcha people are full of shit.

[HoneyBadger]

7. I like how they use the term cyber throughout

Up until a couple of months ago, had you ever heard this?

[hurple]

11. Um...

The term "cyber" has been in regular use for decades, in the right circles... As in, people who build Internet sites, and such.

[4139]

8. Things that sound too good to be true...

[LanternWaste]

14. Or more accurately, "things that sound too weird to be true..."

Or more accurately, "things that sound too weird to be true..."