Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley didn’t hesitate to issue a criminal charge against former British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele, but he refused to release the transcripts of Senate interviews with the company that ordered the Steele dossier. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein just solved that problem by releasing the transcripts herself.

In those transcripts, Grassley’s deputy, Patrick Davis, clearly states that the interviews are not classified.

Mr. Davis: This interview is unclassified. So if any question calls for information that you know to be classified, please state that for the record as well as the reason for the classification. Then once you've clarified that to the extent possible, please respond with as much unclassified information as you can. If we need to have a classified session later, that can be arranged.

So no one should have any basis for complaint about Feinstein showing the public the truth behind the claims that Republicans have been making about Fusion and the originals of the dossier.

Mr. Levy: To be totally clear, you know, what people call the dossier is not really a dossier. It's a collection of field memoranda, of field interviews, a collection that accumulates over a period of months.

Digging through the complete transcripts and comparing them with Republican statements is going to take some time, but it’s clear even from a cursory read-through that the partners from Fusion felt under attack, and that the questioning seemed designed to force them into admitting poor practices.