[pgkdan]

Great post. I think the following couple of paragraphs are key to understanding what really went on. Looking at Fusion GPS and the Steele Dossier are bad enough. Using a political Oppo Research document bought and paid for by the DNC to authorize spying on a rival political campaign is bad enough. Lying to the FISC to coverup the origins of that document is REALLY bad. BUT what's mind numbingly terrible is the fact that the obama administration had been spying on millions of innocent and ordinary Americans since AT LEAST 2012 and that the whole Fusion GPS and Steele Dossier debacle is nothing more than an attempt to ex post facto legitimize the criminal, unconstitutional, and un-American activities of the obama administration.

They didn't start spying on Trump in 2015 or 2016...they'd been spying on him for years because he had the cojones to call out obama's unfitness and disqualifying birth place to be POTUS.

Fusion GPS was not hired to research Trump, the intelligence community was already doing surveillance and spy operations. The intelligence community needed Fusion GPS to give them a plausible justification for already existing surveillance and spy operations.

Fusion-GPS gave the Obama administration the justification they needed for a FISA warrant with the Steele Dossier. Ultimately that’s why the Steele Dossier is so important; without it, the DOJ and FBI are naked with their surveillance and database abuse.

[Grimmy]

Imo, according to what’s been outted so far, and assuming it’s all legit, the dossier as “insurance” finally makes sense to me.

The Steele Dossier “insurance” didn’t get trotted out until immediately *after* the Italian plant job failed.

So, it’s looking now like the Italian plant job was plan A and the dossier was the fallback plan B.