In an op-ed in the Washington Post on Thursday titled "Devin Nunes is investigating me. Here’s the truth," Winer publicly confirmed reports that he had passed on a report he received from Clinton operatives to dossier author Christopher Steele in the fall of 2016, right before the election.
He also confirmed that those Clinton operatives were aware of the dossier effort ‐ making Hillary Clinton’s denials of knowing about the dossier even less credible than they were already.
Winer purported to tell "the real story" in his piece, in which he claimed his actions were taken because he was "so alarmed" by Russia’s role in the 2016 election.