She or someone she knows probably ran through the board, opted to make some stuff up, like interview, then publish. Daily beast still believes in the RU collusion nonsense too
The press spent the week jerking around over ratcliff, and maybe the real one was getting things lined up???
Thats my thought's too. On Sunday when he was interviewed it hardly seemed as though he was prepping to head up the spy agencies.
Perhaps it got some spooks to do something dumb along with the msm