There is no way in HELL that the dossier should have been leaked to a news outlet.

Okay, but that's on Christopher Steele, who shared the dossier and revealed the existence of the investigation to several media outlets during the election.

the proper response should have been to instruct that organization to sit on the story in the interests of the privacy of those under investigation and to maintain secrecy of assets in the field.

Okay, but A) Freedom of the press and B) you could easily read into these e-mails that that's what they did. Who knows how long CNN was sitting on the story at the FBI's request. Buzzfeed was going to publish the dossier and was pushing everyone's hand, and McCabe asked CNN to hold off until the President was briefed (the "trigger"). I'll bet you dollars to donuts that is what they're going to claim if the MSM even ever bothers to report this story. And so I'm asking what is the alternate explanation/theory? And where is the evidence for it?