Re: What is WAPO's point?

First I thought "they are being played" after I saw this retweeted by Maggie Haberman of the NYT yesterday (I check her feed because she is the main one @ NYT who administration leakers seem to want to call, even though she's not sympathetic). Like you say, it was known that it was funded by "Clinton supporters" following Republicans:

And then she tweeted this sort of pointed out it's confusing what's going on here:

And I went back to the article itself, and read more carefully, at the end there is this, about Fusion GPS refusing to hand over records:

Congressional Republicans have tried to force Fusion GPS to identify the Democrat or group behind Steele’s work, but the firm has said that it will not do so, citing confidentiality agreements with its clients.

Last week, Fusion GPS executives invoked their constitutional right not to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. The firm’s founder, Glenn Simpson, had previously given a 10-hour interview to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Over objections from Democrats, the Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), subpoenaed Fusion GPS’s bank records to try to identify the mystery client.

Fusion GPS has been fighting the release of its bank records. A judge on Tuesday extended a deadline for Fusion GPS’s bank to respond to the subpoena until Friday while the company attempts to negotiate a resolution with Nunes.

So it's probably not that simple what is going on here, maybe not the simple situation of GOP sources trying to spin, but somebody trying to counterspin them? Anyhow, this morning Maggie Haberman retweeted this:

Throw in that I noticed yesterday a lot of media people tweeting that while all the anti-Trump Flake and Corker stuff was going on yesterday that Fox News was doing wall-to-wall on the supposed Hillary uranium scandal. So that clearly shows how right wing media just wants to keep the focus off Trump and on Hillary investigations.

In the end, I am thinking this WaPo story about the dossier could be from Fusion people, basically saying: this is already basically known, here we are saying it again, so now leave us alone, we don't want to turn over all of our many clients' confidential records? I know that's how I felt when I got a subpoena for all my business records for a minor DOJ investigation.

Still, confusing, the point is not clear. Not a good job by WaPo.

that's exactly the kinda Josh Marshall analysis I always liked.! Especially the overall attitude of "keep your shirts on, folks, sit down, have a cup and thimk big picture"