Posted on 10/25/2017 2:45:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former President Barack Obama’s former top spy has provided the first public confirmation that the FBI possessed and studied the discredited anti-Trump dossier that made unverified criminal charges against the president’s campaign associates and others.
CIA director John O. Brennan appeared Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee.
“I know that there were efforts made by the bureau to try to understand whether or not any of the information in that was valid,” Mr. Brennan said of the 35-page document compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by Democratic-tied Fusion GPS in Washington.
Mr. Gowdy asked Mr. Brennan: “Do you know whether any of the underlying allegations made in the Steele dossier were ever tested, probed, examined, cross-examined, whether the sources were examined for reliability, credibility?”
Mr. Brennan said he did not know. Asked if the CIA had relied on it, he gave a clipped “No.”
At a hearing in March before the same House Intelligence Committee, with Mr. Comey as a witness, Republicans generally shied away from dossier questions.
In contrast, four Democrats embraced Mr. Steele and his work. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the panels’ top Democrat, read repeatedly from its various memos, including unproven charges, as if they had been authenticated.
Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas also read copiously from the dossier, praising it for what he said were its accuracies.
But Mr. Comey refused to acknowledge the FBI ever possessed or used the document.
Mr. Castro: “First, let me ask you, can you describe who Christopher Steele is?”
Mr. Comey: “No, I’m not gonna comment on that.”
During Mr. Comey’s next — and last appearance on Capitol Hill as FBI director — he again declined to acknowledge the dossier’s existence.
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Brennan is lying. The dossier is the “proof” he claimed to have of Russian “collusion.”
Folks the FBI is utterly corrupt.
The entire US Government is utterly corrupt. If Hillary had won the country would have been finished.
Fedzilla is rotten to the core.
It was already corrupt before the Kenyanesian Usurpation, but after every agency has been stuffed with socialists, we may have to shut it down and start over.
A dossier should carry the truth on its face. One should not have to dissect it.
And we wouldn’t have known it too. Until it was too late.
Watch/listen to Hannity tonight.
Thx for heads up on hannity
Yeah, the FBI is “possessed,” alright...
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