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Senators’ Letter Stirs Mystery Over 4 Classified Footnotes In FISA Report
CHUCK ROSS January 28, 2020
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The Republican chairmen of two Senate committees asked Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday to declassify information in four footnotes in a Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.
The senators said the redacted information is “essential” for the public to fully understand what went wrong in the probe.
“The American people have a right to know what is contained within these four footnotes and, without that knowledge, they will not have a full picture as to what happened during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson wrote to Barr.
“This classified information is significant not only because it contradicts key statements in a section of the report, but also because it provides insight essential for an accurate evaluation of the entire investigation,” they continued.
The letter stirs mystery over what is behind the redactions and suggests that the inspector general’s report is even more damning for the FBI than already known.
Grassley and Johnson do not identify the four footnotes in question, and a spokesman for Grassley did not respond to a request for additional information about the footnotes.
Dozens of the 535 footnotes in the report contain at least some redactions, though only three are blacked out completely.
One of the footnotes refers to a section of the report about Steele’s working relationship with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Republicans have questioned whether Steele’s relationship with a Kremlin insider influenced his investigation of possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Another fully redacted footnote refers to information about Steele’s main dossier source, identified as “Primary Sub-Source” in the report. The source’s identity remains unknown.
Another footnote refers to a separate Steele sub-source who told FBI agents that information attributed to them in the dossier was “exaggerated.”
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/28/mystery-footnotes-fisa-carter-page/