On Wednesday, [May 1, 2019] Attorney General William Barr testified that he is “concerned” about the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Barr whether or not the Department of Justice (DOJ) could confirm that the Steele dossier was not part of the disinformation campaign Russia used to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
“How do we know that the Steele dossier is not itself evidence of the Russian disinformation campaign, knowing what we know now that basically the allegations made therein were second-hand, hearsay, or unverified,” Cornyn stated, referring to key claims in the dossier that the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller disproved, such as the claim that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague.
“Can you state with confidence that the Steele dossier was not part of the Russian disinformation campaign?” Cornyn asked.
“No, I can’t state that with confidence and that is one of the areas that I’m reviewing,” Barr replied. “I’m concerned about it and I don’t think it’s entirely speculative.”
If Russia had a hand in the Steele dossier, that would imply that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC either worked with Russians or were duped by the Russians in their disinformation campaigns.
It would mean that the real “collusion” with Russia may have been on the Clinton side, rather than the Trump side. ...”
We will now start using the phrase ‘real collusion’ and ‘fake collusion’.
It will be curious if Barr gets into this discovery angle, and finds some communication between a shadowy European figure and the DNC...then identifies the European as a KGB-operative or Origarch-operative. This would turn into some kind of James Bond-script out of the 1970s.