By Maggie Miller
July 15, 2025 Newly declassified CIA documents reveal that the Steele Dossier — long dismissed as irrelevant — was in fact a key part of the intelligence community's assessment claiming Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump. In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller sits down with RealClear Investigations journalist Paul Sperry, the lead investigator behind the story, to unpack what this means for the broader Russiagate narrative — and the officials who may have misled Congress. Watch the Interview →
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