Guy who created the slanderous anti-Trump "dossier" refusing to cooperate with investigators. BUT...

Reuters has always been pro-Democrat, anti-conservative and anti-Trump.  So if Reuters says the key figure in the "dossier" that sparked all the FBI spying on Trump is refusing to cooperate with the DOJ investigation into who funded that slanderous effort and when, it's an "admission against interest."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began...

Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source...

Steele...was hired in 2016 by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based private investigations firm working for lawyers representing the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.  [He] created...a set of controversial and sometimes salacious reports describing alleged contacts Trump and his team had with Russians before the election.
Democrats accuse Trump of trying to turn attention away from the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller, whose report into [alleged] Russian interference in the 2016 election described numerous links between the Trump campaign and Moscow, and said Trump had repeatedly tried to impede the investigation.

The source...said Steele would not cooperate with Durham’s probe but might cooperate with a parallel inquiry by the Justice Department’s Inspector General...

The Justice Department had no immediate comment....

The claim that Steele "might" cooperate with an investigator other than the presumably-honest Durham is designed to make Steele look like he's not stonewalling, that he "kinda sorta" wants to cooperate, and that he's simply concerned about the particular investigator, Durham.  But think about it for a moment:  If Steele has nothing to hide, why prefer one investigator over another?

One of two answer seems obvious:  Either Steele is lying about his willingness to cooperate with any investigation; or he's been told that the laughably-misnamed "Justice Department's" inspector-general is in on the fix, and won't ask the questions that need to be asked to determine who funded the slanderous "dossier" [great term, eh?  Sounds so...official!] and who in the FBI/DOJ decided to use it to justify numerous FISA spy warrants on members of the Trump team.

If we had an honest press (hahahahahaha!), you'd think they'd be asking questions about Steele's refusal to cooperate.  But of course they're not.  Cuz, reasons.  "Not important, citizen!  Nothing to see here!  Let's move on to the important questions, like 'Isn't Joe Biden wonderful?'"

Yeh, dat's da ticket.