Here is an archived link to the cell phone allegation for those who don't have Unredacted yet. I recall Cohen didn't testify completely to SDNY either, a requirement to be cooperating witness (CW).

Sources:

https://archive.is/viTsS

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-did-federal-prosecutors-drop-trump's-hush-money-case

I'd rather have him on our side than Trump's, but he was 100% content to work for Trump until that involved doing time for a fraud scheme. He can say he's repentant, but I think his desire for revenge figures into that more than some genuine stand on principle. We'll see I guess.

dossier reports he was. Doesn't that present Steele with a problem?

The fact Cohen's cell phone pinged off Czech cell towers, along with other SIGINT evidence, needs to be explained.
It may be that Cohen is pissed off at Trump for having to be the fall guy, and that's why he's turned against him. But there's a link to Russia that still hasn't been fully teased out.

given the information up after all that? I believe he would have,.

That one fact doesn't lay waste to the dossier, but it could mean that the Cohen fact might be in error.

Granted I haven't confirmed that evidence myself, but that is what Steele is supposedly backing his claim up with. If Steele is lying about that then I'm wrong, but I'll take cell phone metadata over a former Trump henchman's word any fucking day of the week.

The Steele dossier is far more accurate than most people think and it's freaking nauseating how Trumpco were able to dismiss it so easily... and of course everything about king shit is nauseatingly corrupt and he is disturbingly able to manipulate public opinion

There’s your answer.

Thomas Pickard a Democrat, was acting director for 71 days in 2001, following Louis Freeh’s resignation.

J. Edgar’s ugly legacy lives on.

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There’s info about how all the info was collected.

.... I only have book reviews to go on. Could you elaborate?

And he clearly has access to SIGINT data as well as HUMINT. He describes how he was asked to compile the dossier, in cooperation with a US-based private intelligence firm working on behalf of Hillary's lawyers (Steele himself didn't know who the client was until later in the process), and how at first he and the FBI worked well together. In fact, the FBI paid him for earlier intelligence work. But the Trump investigation destroyed his relationship with the FBI, and he's still feeling betrayed by certain people there, who then began helping to smear him so that the dossier was completely discredited in the press. He had previously uncovered disturbing payments from Russia to Brexit-aligned people in the UK. Of course, Russia wanted to undermine the EU and NATO.

Steele still stands by his work. But as he said, raw intelligence is usually about 70% accurate. If even 70% of the dossier is true, then Trump truly is in Putin's pocket. And people died because Trump leaked names of CIA assets to the Russians.

But we all know this, don't we? Or at least suspected it.

... RUMINT (RUMINT is Rumor Intelligence)

What I'm interested in, specifically, is the claim that there is cell phone signals bounced off Czech towers that place Cohen in Prague. This was NOT a claim made in the dossier. It was made by two journalists afterwards, not by Steele.

These journalists claim that their sources cited information that signals from a cell phone owned by Cohen were detected in the vicinity of Prague and that, during that time frame, electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency picked up a Russian remarking that Cohen was in the Czech capital.

What I was wondering is whether the book contains new information that verifies that a cell phone owned by Cohen was detected in Prague. Does Steele confirm, deny, or even mention the alleged cell phone data? After the initial reporting, I never heard anything else about it, so I was surprised you mentioned it in the OP.

"One of the 2016 dossier memos reported that Cohen allegedly traveled that year to Prague to meet with Kremlin representatives on behalf of the Trump campaign. There has been much debate around this since. We are aware of subsequent intelligence geolocating one of Cohen’s mobile phones in the Czech Republic in August 2016. The McClatchy newspaper group reported in April 2018 that Mueller’s team had evidence that Cohen had entered the Czech Republic in August or early September. And in December 2018 the same McClatchy reporters wrote that Cohen’s phone had “sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016” and that an Eastern European intelligence agency had eavesdropped electronically on a Russian saying that Cohen was in Prague during the relevant time."

seemed everything tumbled into dust. But as a former reporter, I believed the reporter -- especially since he went on TV with what he had. That takes nerve. Plus, McClatchy was a well-respected source. There's facts in there, but as with Watergate, we may have to wait years to get the full story. (I'll probably never see that day but I'll ask about it at the Pearly Gates.)

..... I tried to pick up the book at the library, but they don't have it yet.

likely accurate. But to admit that online, anywhere, led to total humiliation. Steele has stuck by his report and I admire that. He doesn't need to -- he could admit mistakes were made, if he believed that.

To learn that at least some percentage of the report was accurate, would make me hopeful.

and how the NY Office of the FBI had it out for Hilary. The stories have received too little attention.

We put the book on our "to order" list. Thanks.

is compromised and not to be trusted. Even if they finally broke away from him, they sure were taken in beforehand.

Even Michael Cohen. Okay, you finally seem to have seen the light, dude, but you were fine with living in his orbit for as long as you did.