So Steele and the DNC were the cover - arms length removed - for what was literally NOT initially Billary, Inc. and the DNC but the Obama administration itself, with Brennen in the lead.
All Steele had to do was wrap it all up in a “dossier” and be the CIA’s de facto messenger back to the operatives in the FBI/DOJ.
Maybe Steele will eventually throw Brennen under the bus.
I don’t think it is really important who was the original author of the ‘dossier’.
Who and how used it is important.