Posted on 05/21/2020 9:21:26 AM PDT by Jayster
An FBI offer to pay former British spy Christopher Steele to collect intelligence on Michael Flynn in the weeks before the 2016 election has been one of the more overlooked revelations in a Justice Department inspector general’s report released in December.
The reference to the FBI proposal, which was made in an Oct. 3, 2016, meeting in an unidentified European city, has received virtually no press attention. But it might have new significance following the recent release of government documents that show that Steele peddled an unfounded rumor that Flynn had an extramarital affair with a Russian woman in the United Kingdom.
It is not clear how and when Steele came across the rumor, or if it was the result of the FBI asking him to look into Flynn.
The inspector general’s report, released on Dec. 9, 2019, said that FBI agents offered to pay Steele “significantly” to collect intelligence from three separate “buckets” that the bureau was pursuing as part of Crossfire Hurricane, its counterintelligence probe of four Trump campaign associates.
One bucket was “Additional intelligence/reporting on specific, named individuals (such as [Carter Page] or [Flynn]) involved in facilitating the Trump campaign-Russian relationship,” the IG report stated.
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“Director” more like collaborator Christopher Wray needs to be gone .. now!!
The cover-ups continue.. There are no innocents.
It’s apparently not that difficult to get burried deeply under 0bama’s skin.
Some members of the fbi need to spend time in federal prison. I’m sure they’ll be well accepted by the inmates and treated with the respect due to their high office.
“It is not clear how and when Steele came across the rumor [Flynn affair with Lukhova], or if it was the result of the FBI asking him to look into Flynn.”
Since the “rumor” was created and promulgated by the CIA’s operative Stephan Halper, where Steele came across it is a real poser...
Given the head, James Comey, it’s not a surprise. The FBI under his control was totally corrupt. They have no business being political at all and apparently were totally political. What Comey did as head of the FBI is so obvious, it smells. What Hillary Clinton did, using personal servers for classified work and then hiring a consultant to scrub the hardrives is something she should be jailed for and Comey knew it while standing there saying he could find no intent.
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