Posted on 04/11/2020 8:08:38 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The FBI was warned sections of the controversial Steele dossier could have been part of a "Russian disinformation campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations," according to newly declassified footnotes from a government watchdog report....
Footnote 350 in the IG report addresses the FBI's knowledge of Russian contacts with Steele and the potential for disinformation. Steele had "frequent contacts with representatives for multiple Russian oligarchs, we identified reporting the Crossfire Hurricane team received from (redacted) indicating the potential for Russian disinformation influencing Steele's election reporting."
The footnote also indicates that warnings to the FBI's Russia probe became more pronounced over time....
"From the opening of the investigation, the FBI team kept accumulating exculpatory information. Yet rather than wind the investigation down, they ramped it up...Then it got worse. The FBI team excluded exculpatory information from its FISA application..."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Who gets to see all the un-redacted reports? How many people know the whole truth about things?
The FBI should hang its head...
Russian interference ... against Trump!
Why were they redacted in the first place?
Captain obvious must be working overtime there!!!
True, but I still consider it a big deal that a lefty network is reporting it.
They were redacted to cover the malfeasance and plot. The Mueller Report did this as well because they knew the plot and continued to undermine the President anyways influencing the midterm election as well as the media narrative.
I wish more Americans understood just how bad this was.
FBI should be broken up. Leave the regional offices. Shut down the DC HQ
Close. The FBI should hang for sedition.
Good idea for every federal agency.
No...the FBI should HANG!!
There was no way the Bitch was going to let her FBI swing, beside, she was going to win in a landslide.
Hey Catherine, if you check the record you will find that EVERYBODY AT CBS Swore up and Down the ENTIRE DOSSIER was TRUE!!! ANd their quotes should be in every article you write on Russia.
Exactly.
Which is why this should have been done when May 19, 2019 when NYT wrote. Trump Gives Attorney General Sweeping Power in Review of 2016 Campaign Inquiry
This is the same ole BS
Captain Obvious asks why isn’t the President and AG doing anything about this? WTF is the left going to do about it? Will they try to impeach him,wish him and his voters to die and use a crisis to burn the economy and Constitutional Republic to the ground? This is a CIVIL and WORLD WAR by the left.
The FBIAS had its own agenda.
They cannot be trusted.
Catherine is probably getting sent to corporate re-education as we speak
Their recent hire, Catherine Herridge, who—from past activities—predictably would be disposed to write such an article, was squelched until this 11pm Friday release by CBS.
Did she get a pay raise to let her stories be so squelched?
“The FBI should hang its head...”
“The FBI should hang...”
Fixed that for ya.
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