I suspect as others have remarked that much of what the FBI credited to Steele was the work of others. In fact, in previous statements Steele has seemed unaware of “what” he wrote!
This revelation will be very important as it goes to prior statements by some who have already been interviewed as to the origins.
Diane Feinstein’s leak was designed to head off a perjury trap. It was purposeful right as several of these players faced a perjury trap. I would argue it was a clean-cut case of OBSTRUCTION in that it put out “the official version” of events when none of them knew the “big picture” or what to say.
This thing gets uglier and uglier. Nader, the convicted pedophile and one of Mueller’s sources, is now being represented by Kathryn Ruemmler, who was White House Counsel and Obama’s “Fixer”
Coincidence? Can you imagine the howls from the left if John Dowd represented a pedophile charged with child porn who had made allegations against the Clinton Foundation?
You cannot make this stuff up!
The FBI needed plausible deniability before they could act, so Team Clinton hired Steele to put the garbage in an official looking intel report. They then used John McCain to peddle it to the FBI, who were then able to say: "Look! a credible source brought to us by a REPUBLICAN!"
The FBI (Comey and friends) then leaked it to the news media, and then were able to use the media reports as "corroborating" reports when they went to the FISA court.