Bret Stephens, the New York Times columnist, published an op-ed this weekend taking to task “administration apologists” who have been heavily critical lately of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
But Stephens’ piece, “The Sleazy Case Against Mueller’s Probe,” makes numerous factual and logical errors, mostly in his defense of the so-called Steele dossier, the salacious report that accuses the Trump campaign of engaging in a massive campaign collusion conspiracy with the Kremlin.
The article suggests that Stephens, who left the Wall Street Journal for the Times earlier this year, has done little research about the dirty document.
It’s possible he’s never read it.
Stephens downplays the significance of how the dossier came into being — who paid for it, who commissioned it, and who conducted the research.
He pooh-poohs that it was financed by Trump’s opponents at the Clinton campaign and DNC. He also discounts the involvement of Fusion GPS, a political opposition research firm founded by three of Stephens’ former colleagues at The Journal.
Fusion GPS, which was hired by the Democrats in April 2016, hired former British spy Christopher Steele that June to investigate Trump’s activities in Russia.
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