Originally posted by Mountain Man
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1) Comey acknowledged that he knew the dossier was produced as a result of opposition research. The "nothing more than" was inserted by you. And let us not forget the dossier began as Republican opposition research during the primaries, and was only later taken up by the DNC.
2) The purpose of "opposition research" is to "dig up dirt" on the opposition. There is no reason to dismiss a document on the basis that it is "opposition research." That is the "genetic fallacy" in operation. The document stands or falls on its own merits.
3) Personally, I do not see why the origins of the dossier make a whit of difference if his goal is to warn the president-elect that a document exists that could do him damage. If he had withheld the existence of the dossier, that would be newsworthy. But the funding source?
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