FBI Paid $100K+ For Concocted Trump Dossier During Election; John McCain Helped Broker Classified Deal With Comey https://t.co/m9rDEYoHI7— Thomas Paine (@Thomas1774Paine) February 7, 2018
Steele was likely paid in the $100,000 range by the FBI for the research. Perhaps even more.
Sen. John McCain was involved in brokering the introduction of Steele or Steele’s preliminary research to FBI bosses.
The FBI routinely pays third-party private Intel firms to gather evidence used to secure federal search warrants and arrest warrants, as well as FISA court warrants. The FBI does not vet the privately commissioned investigators, like Fusion GPS, who work “off the books” for the Bureau.
The FBI pays such contractors from a budget that is not part of its public expenditures. The transactions are confidential, therefore, Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA) on such transactions are easily and legally denied.
Steele and the firm Fusion GPS may have performed additional privately-commissioned intelligence work for the FBI.