This is downright weird, but it's actually just the sort of thing intelligence agencies do. That doesn't make it true, of course; it just means that the prior probability of this story being true is higher than most people might think.
That said, what exactly is the problem? Moby seems to be claiming that the dossier is correct. If so, there aren't any grounds for criticism here. The only way there would be grounds for criticism is if the dossier is false, and the people who were pushing it either knew it was false, or otherwise failed their epistemic responsibilities.
First, the dossier was always just Democrat funded opposition research, it was never legitimate intelligence
It wasn't substantiated, or reasearched, it was just passed onto the FBI who then used it as the basis of a counter intelliegence investigation that led to the covert surveillance and unmasking of the political opposition in a election year.
Remember, Andrew McCabe testified under oath that the only allegation cooroberated by the FBI was Carter Page's trip to Moscow.
Carter Page is suing Fusion and Media outlets that published that allegation for Libel by the way, and he'll win because it wasn't true.
Simspon admitted in his testimony that Fusion GPS never substantiated the allegations in the dossier, and Steele admitted in Court papers that the allegations in the dossier were unfounded, and never meant to be made public.
But it was made public. Hell, Obama's Intel Chiefs even briefed Congress on its contents while it was being made public, and while the FBI was using it to obtain FISA warrants.
There was a obvious and coordinated and politically driven effort to disemminate its contents, and if Moby's telling the truth, then he was just a useful idiot, a tool and not the Patriot he thinks he is
Ask yourself, would the Obama administration have responded the same way to GOP funded anti Hillary oppo research ?
Whats was stopping the GOP from handing over a list of unsubstantiated allegations that tied Hillary to Putin ?
This growing scandal has legs for a lot of good reasons, but a big one is this.
When was the last time the FBI allowed their evidence to be publicly disemminated during a criminal investigation ?