where James Clapper makes the claim that much of the dossier have been verified as true. Of course he does not identify a single allegation in the dossier that has been proven to back his claim.
And of course he also makes this claim that has been proven false and calls into question the veracity of any other statements he made
“Well, some of what was in the dossier … first of all, I need to make an important point here. We did not use the dossier as a source for the intelligence community assessment, that’s point one," Clapper said.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/389522-clapper-more-and-more-of-steele-dossier-proving-to-be-true