Title: Donald Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for author's credibility | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Headings: Donald Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for author's credibility
Donald Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for author's credibility
Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, named as writer of Donald Trump memo, is ‘highly regarded professional’

Content: At his press briefing on Wednesday, the president-elect dared the world’s media to scrutinise the 35 pages of claims, before throwing down a challenge – where’s the proof? Nobody had any. Case closed. But in the rush to trample all over the dossier and its contents, one key question remained. Why had America’s intelligence agencies felt it necessary to provide a compendium of the claims to Barack Obama and Trump himself? And the answer to that lies in the credibility of its apparent author, the ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, the quality of the sources he has, and the quality of the people who were prepared to vouch for him. In all these respects, the 53-year-old is in credit. Christopher Steele. Photograph: The Sun
On Thursday night, as the former spy was in hiding, having fled his home in the south-east of England, former colleagues rallied to defend him.