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FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA
Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media.
The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016. Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s contacts with Russia in search of a now debunked collusion theory.
It is important to note that the FBI swore on Oct. 21, 2016, to the FISA judges that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings” and the FBI has determined him to be “reliable” and was “unaware of any derogatory information pertaining” to their informant, who simultaneously worked for Fusion GPS, the firm paid by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign to find Russian dirt on Trump.
Kavalec’s handwritten notes clearly flagged in multiple places that Steele might be talking to the media. “June — reporting started,” she wrote. “NYT and WP have,” she added, in an apparent reference to the New York Times and the Washington Post. Later she quoted Steele as suggesting he was “managing” four priorities — “Client needs, FBI, WashPo/NYT, source protection,” her handwritten notes show. Those same notes suggest Steele spun some wild theories to State, including one that the Russians had a “plant in DNC” and had assembled an “HRC dossier,” apparent references to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Rodham Clinton. She expounded in her typed memo. “The Russians have succeeded in placing an agent inside the DNC,” she quoted Steele as saying.
originally posted by: JustJohnny
a reply to: shooterbrody
How is this relevant when the Steele dossier was not the only thing submitted when applying for the fisa warrant???
Trump’s claim was that the Steele dossier was the primary/only evidence used to obtain the fisa warrant..
Well that wasn’t the case...
So how is one fbi official doubting the validity of the Steele dossier relevant?
originally posted by: vinifalou
a reply to: shooterbrody
I'm sure no Democrat will acknowledge this, instead they'll either claim it's false or ignore the topic.
Nice find tho, seems like those people running the FBI back then had no problem in using false information to get the FISA warrants.
But hey! Whatever it takes, right?
originally posted by: JustJohnny
a reply to: shooterbrody
How is this relevant when the Steele dossier was not the only thing submitted when applying for the fisa warrant???
Trump’s claim was that the Steele dossier was the primary/only evidence used to obtain the fisa warrant..
Well that wasn’t the case...
So how is one fbi official doubting the validity of the Steele dossier relevant?
“reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings”
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: butcherguy
I don't know.
Their "investigations" were going on, but I don't know of any criminal proceedings at that point.
Cart in front of the horse seems to be their way.
originally posted by: JustJohnny
a reply to: shooterbrody
How is this relevant when the Steele dossier was not the only thing submitted when applying for the fisa warrant???
Trump’s claim was that the Steele dossier was the primary/only evidence used to obtain the fisa warrant..
Well that wasn’t the case...
So how is one fbi official doubting the validity of the Steele dossier relevant?