its not new
buried deep in the article....
The Shearer memo was provided to the FBI in October 2016.
t was handed to them by Steele – who had been given it by an American contact – after the FBI requested the former MI6 agent provide any documents or evidence that could be useful in its investigation, according to multiple sources.
The Guardian was told Steele warned the FBI he could not vouch for the veracity of the Shearer memo, but that he was providing a copy because it corresponded with what he had separately heard from his own independent sources.
“It was handed to them by Steele – who had been given it by an American contact”
The article does not say who this supposed American contact was but it had to be a Clinton operative possibly through a Fusion GPS intermediary.