check the “sources” rubbish Hosenball has written:
6 Mar: Reuters: Trump ‘dossier’ author Christopher Steele rejects prosecutor’s interview request
By Mark Hosenball
The former British intelligence officer who produced a ‘dossier’ linking Donald Trump and his presidential campaign to Russia has declined to give an interview to a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to investigate aspects of the 2016 U.S. campaign, three sources familiar with the matter said...
Steele’s representatives told Durham’s team that the former officer for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, was not interested in cooperating with Durham’s investigation and would not speak to his team, the sources said. Steele was concerned that Durham’s investigation was overly politicized and he would not be treated fairly, the sources said...
Some of those targeted by Durham, including senior former aides to President Barack Obama who raised questions about Trump’s connections to Russia before the 2016 election, have expressed concern the probe could be used to retaliate against them...
The investigation into Trump and his campaign’s contacts with Russia conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found there was not sufficient evidence to prove that Trump’s 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election...
https://news.trust.org/item/20200306230044-c38e7/
Wikipedia: Mark Hosenball is an American investigative correspondent at Reuters. Prior to joining Reuters in September 2010, he worked for Newsweek. He started there in November 1993, after working at Dateline NBC as an investigative producer. He also worked at The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, Time Out, and contributed articles to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. He has also done commentaries for American Public Radio...
like Hosenball/Reuters, the UK Times newspaper (owned by Murdoch) refers to Trump’s “links” with Russia as if they are a fact. article behind paywall:
Huawei is wrong choice, says former spy Christopher Steele
International - The Times (UK) - 2 hours ago
The former British spy who wrote the intelligence dossier that helped to start the investigation into President Trump’s links with Russia said that
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/huawei-is-wrong-choice-says-former-spy-christopher-steele-rxnrh39w5