OK, but can we please, PLEASE avoid flogging these materials under the banner of "the Vance dossier"? Yes, seriously. The use of "dossier" is so conspicuous, and the association in this particular context is so inevitably to the Steele dossier, that the use of the term immediately throws the Vance document's credibility into doubt. There…
OK, but can we please, PLEASE avoid flogging these materials under the banner of "the Vance dossier"? Yes, seriously. The use of "dossier" is so conspicuous, and the association in this particular context is so inevitably to the Steele dossier, that the use of the term immediately throws the Vance document's credibility into doubt. There may well be reasons to question its accuracy--and there well may not--but until it's known to deserve the comparison, it just seems that you might more thoughtfully use some other term.
OK, but can we please, PLEASE avoid flogging these materials under the banner of "the Vance dossier"? Yes, seriously. The use of "dossier" is so conspicuous, and the association in this particular context is so inevitably to the Steele dossier, that the use of the term immediately throws the Vance document's credibility into doubt. There may well be reasons to question its accuracy--and there well may not--but until it's known to deserve the comparison, it just seems that you might more thoughtfully use some other term.