Posted on 12/14/2019 12:27:34 PM PST by janetjanet998
An updated version of the Justice Department inspector general’s report revealed the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation in October 2016 on an alleged source for the Steele dossier.
The FBI opened up a counterintelligence investigation in October 2016 against a Belarusian-American businessman who Christopher Steele said was an unwitting source for his infamous anti-Trump dossier, according to a newly unredacted version of a Justice Department inspector general’s report.
The FBI failed to disclose the investigation against the alleged source — called Person 1 in the report — to Justice Department attorney and in applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The report also said the FBI failed to tell the surveillance court that Steele told investigators during a meeting on Oct. 3, 2016 that he considered Person 1 to be a “boaster” and “embellisher” who “may engage in some embellishment.”
Did GOP know about this but couldn’t discuss it in open hearings?
Whether or not Millian did provide information that ended up in the dossier, Steele represented to the FBI that Millian was an unwitting source for several bombshell claims in the document.
It is unclear whether Steele’s information about Millian is what sparked the FBI’s decision to investigate him. Nine days after Steele’s meeting, the bureau’s New York Field Office opened up a counterintelligence investigation on Millian. Nine days after that, the FBI applied for its first FISA warrant against Page.
At this point, it’s hard to believe anything the FBI claims since they have no problem altering documents, and creating evidence.
Did GOP know about this but couldn’t discuss it in open hearings?
The information about the investigation of Millian was redacted in a version of the IG report released Monday. But the information was unmasked in a version of the report released Wednesday. The report said the FBI and Justice Department declassified the information.
Way back in the dark ages, I actually respected the FBI.
No longer.
Brian Cates:
If this was the same source who provided any of the allegations Steele made against Page that were used in the warrant, that would mean the FBI had SIMULTANEOUS investigations underway of both Page AND the source of the allegations they were using against Page....
Brian Cates: RussiaGate Was Always A Massive Hoax
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The idea that the FBI could be using info from Steele to investigate BOTH Carter Page AND the source Steele was using to accuse Page of being a Russian agent would be like the cherry on top of this entire farce.
dont remember any questions about this during the hearings
Per the linked article
Steele referred to Millian as “Source D” in a memo dated June 20, 2016, while Millian was called “Source E” in a memo dated July 28, 2016, according to the report. In a memo from July 30, 2016, Steele calls Millian a “Russian émigré figure” close to the Trump campaign. In a memo dated Aug. 10, 2016, Millian is an “ethnic Russian associate” of Trump.
The IG report blasts the FBI for withholding information about Steele and his sources from its FISA applications against Page.
“We believe the FBI should have specifically and explicitly advised [Justice Department’s Office of Intelligence] about the FBI’s assessment that this particular sub-source relied upon in the FISA application was Person 1, that Steele had provided derogatory information regarding Person 1, and that the FBI had an open counterintelligence investigation on Person 1,” the report says.
Sidney Blumenthal.
Nellie Ohr!
So much lying, corruption and double dealing that I can’t keep track of all of it. No wonder the average American’s eyes just glaze over as all of this continues to ooze out in D.C.
When that alleged dossier was brought out I viewed it as someones idea of a satirical piece to be submitted to UK’s Daily Mail or other lefty publication which was rejected probably because of this.
Frankly Trump strikes me as a guy who knows the value of a buck and wouldn’t waste it on a bunch of hookers urinating on a bed just to get even .
Red Badger seems to feel it was a woman who wrote and it’s beginning to look that there is a lot more to this;
http//www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3800390/posts
So much lying, corruption and double dealing that I can’t keep track of all of it. No wonder the average American’s eyes just glaze over as all of this continues to ooze out in D.C.
Ep1134 How Did The Media Miss This Explosive Footnote in the IG Report?The Dan Bongino Show 12/13/19 footnote: 461
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTfZGTqo61U&t=1122s
Nellie Freakin’ OHR!!!!!
OOOOpps that’s
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3800390/posts
The weird crap that comes out of a leftist mind.
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