Right, all the letter says is what anyone who is talking about the Steele Dossier should already know - Russia habitually leaks disinformation, and will mix the

Right, all the letter says is what anyone who is talking about the Steele Dossier should already know - Russia habitually leaks disinformation, and will mix the lies with fact to confuse folks. Steele said as much himself which the FBI commented on in their review of the dossier (parts of the report he got from Russian contacts he wasn't sure were accurate, but since it was raw intelligence he reported it). Basically the letter says: "somebody heard from some Russian source that is not trusted that HRC was behind linking trump to Russia, but since that source is not trustworthy and there's no evidence we can't determine that to be a fact." Treating that tenuous link as a fact is doing exactly what OP is claiming the media did with the Steele Dossier (which generally they did not, they reported on its existence not its accuracy - and the media I consumed was careful about that distinction).