I think we will learn that Steele had little to do with the dossier other than allowing his name to be attached to it, in order to make it appear to be an actual intelligence product.
Nellie Ohr and Glenn Simpson should turn out to be the actual authors.
That is pretty much where I am at. The “dossier” was a product of the obama admin either directly or indirectly through cut outs like Fusion FSB.
There’s reason to think that we are seeing it clearly. Glenn Simpson was pushing a “Russian influence” tale in the Wall Street Journal as far back as 2007. Well before Trump would be their target.
Nellie Ohr has the educational background to have helped concoct the dossier, or even write the bulk of it. And she worked for Simpson’s Fusion GPS.
Steele is just one of a number of UK spooks who appear to have ties to this mess. It looks like they were used in order to give a veneer of credibility to the charges that the coup plotters were inventing. The plotters needed this cover in order to fool FISA judges and anyone at FBI and DOJ who weren’t part of the conspiracy.