You noticed that the dossier was not described (by LG) as “opposition research,” but ‘rumors, hearsay and bar talk.”
How the media has for years gotten away with spinning a narrative of the dossier’s tenuous, ostensible legitimacy!
To mislead everyone to think in “oppo research” is to keep the dossier just one step removed from something “of value,” and that campaigns legitimately even pay for as a matter of course. This dossier was pure, concocted, fictional weaponized drivel, one step removed from being sucked out of thin air by people with animus against Trump, Republicans, conservatives and polite company.
Its finishing touches were carved as a catalytic dagger against Carter Page to slingshot onto spying on Trump!
Good point re oppo research