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Footnotes in watchdog report indicate FBI knew of risk of Russian disinformation in Steele dossier
CBS News ^ | APRIL 10, 2020 / 10:58 PM / CBS NEWS | BY CATHERINE HERRIDGE

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...” MORE


91 posted on 04/11/2020 3:07:50 PM PDT by bitt (Hell hath no fury like a scorned patriot.)
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"“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 flip side of the Hillary investigation coin.

109 posted on 04/11/2020 3:40:31 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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Footnotes in watchdog report indicate FBI knew of risk of Russian disinformation in Steele dossier

I tried to post a link to this story on Twitter - no can do.

They're throttling it.

123 posted on 04/11/2020 4:00:20 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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