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Shem..cont.Multiple factors effected Horowitz ability to determine what all Comey knew about the falsification of information in the FISA applications and omissions of key details because they weren't able to question Comey and didn't have a record of what was discussed during his briefings.

After the FBI got the first FISA on Page they finally decided to ask Steele if he was a source for media articles, and Steele admitted being a source for the Mother Jones article and was fake fired by the FBI, who continued to use his information through the Ohr backchannel.

The FBI wanted to use Steele's reporting in the "interagency" review of Russian interference and the CIA pushed back. This was in December 2016 for the ICA report so Trump had already won the election. They ended up using Steeles information in an appendix to the ICA.

The FBI was still trying to verify the Steele dossier in November and December of 2016. Comey is such a freaking weasel, he told Trump in January 2017 he should be careful about asking him to investigate the dossier's claims. Tell me again this was never about Trump himself.

The FBI's Validation Management Unit in early 2017 informed Crossfire Hurricane that Steele's past reporting was only "minimally corroborated" which disputed what they told the FISA court. Also they weren't able to corroborate any of his dossier but didn't inform CH of that.

In January of 2017, the FBI interviewed the primary sub-source for some of Steele's statements used in the FISA application and found serious issues and contradictory information from what Steele had reported to them.

By September 2017 the FBI was unable to corroborate most of the Steele dossier's claims. Most of what they were able to verify was already public information at the time he wrote it. They also found his main allegations were inconsistent with their own information they uncovered.

There's an entire paragraph redacted after that. There are minimal redactions so far but this seems like a big one. DECLASSIFY THE IG FISA REPORT!

Now we're at the information the FBI intentionally left out of two or more FISA renewals, like the fact that Steele's Primary Sub-Source for most of the accusations against Page directly contradicted Steele when they spoke with him. Kind of a big deal huh?

And now we get to the altered email from Clinesmith and it is DAMNING. Before the final FISA renewal on Page the other agency specifically reminded the FBI that Page was a source for them, and Clinesmith edited it to say he was NOT a source for them.

The FBI knew Page was a source for another agency against Russian intelligence and repeatedly hid it from the FISA court, even after being asked by other officials and REMINDED by the other agency. That alone would have destroyed their entire case and they knew it.

The FBI also failed to inform the FISA court that not only was it not true that Steele's past work was corroborated or used in criminal tries, that they were given information that Steele had a history of poor judgement and not validating his reporting.

[Lakeside Granny]

Tracy Beanz has a good thread going on the IG Report.....

https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1204105779768377344

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The FBI hid from the FISA court information from Bruce Ohr that stated that Steele's reporting was going directly to the Clinton campaign, that he was being paid to share that information with the media, and that he was desperate about Trump not being the US President.

The FBI didn't correct their false claim that Steele wasn't the source of the Yahoo News article even after they learned they learned about all of Steele's media contacts.

The FBI hid from the FISA court information obtained by a spy talking to Papadopoulos in which Papadopoulos denied the Trump campaign was involved in the DNC email hack, you know, the entire basis for their investigation in the first place.

And we have our first mention of Mifsud. The FBI hid from the FISA court that Mifsud denied giving Papadopoulos the information he shared with Downer which was the entire basis of the start of Crossfire Hurricane.

Also, the FBI knew that Page had no role in the alleged "Republican platform change on Ukraine" but didn't inform the FISA court of that, even though it was incorrectly part of the information they used to get it approved.

The decision by the FBI to not inform the proper people about the contradictions between Steele and his primary sub source was serious enough that had it been known at the time it may have scrapped the FISA renewal all together.

Holy crap, not only did the FBI not tell the OI about the inconsistencies between Steele and his sub source, they made it sound like the sub source confirmed Steele's reporting instead of contradicting it.

The DOJ even used the FBI's claims about Steele's sub source to defend Steele's work in July of 2018, until Horowitz informed them that the source actually contradicted Steele instead of corroborating him. LOL freaking ridiculous.

It gets worse for Clinesmith, one of the signatories on the final FISA renewal refused to sign it until he got an answer about Carter Page's past work as a source for the government, and only signed off after Clinesmith edited the email to lie and claim Page was not a source.

Horowitz doesn't speculate about whether or not any of that information would have stopped a FISA or renewal from being granted but it's obvious that it would have, everything they omitted contradicted their entire basis for the warrants.

[Jane Long]

Thank you, both, for the great IG info!! Lots to catch up on.

I just received my Trump Christmas wrapping paper, in the mail!!