Russia, a dossier of rumors and a President-elect

WASHINGTON HAS LONG BEEN A CITY fueled by gossip, innuendo and backbiting, much of it anonymous and some of it completely fabricated. But rarely does such material ever get inserted into formal documents. And there may be no precedent for a report containing unsubstantiated allegations about a President-elect of the United States making it into an official intelligence briefing.

But that’s exactly what happened less than two weeks before