On Jan. 10, 2017, a news-and-entertainment website called BuzzFeed published the text of the Steele dossier. Simultaneously, most of the U.S. media began running stories based on anonymous intelligence sources suggesting the possibility of a link during the previous year’s election between U.S. President-elect Trump and Vladimir Putin. This came to be known as “the Russian collusion narrative.” The Steele dossier was the narrative’s Rosetta Stone, the reason to believe all the other stories might be true. On page 9 of the...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2019 22:52 UTC