Posted on 03/06/2017 12:35:07 PM PST by HarleyLady27
The FBI’s agreement to pay the author of the unsubstantiated dossier on Donald Trump while he was working for an opposition research firm tied to Hillary Clinton raises questions about the bureau’s “independence from politics,” the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is claiming.
In a letter sent to FBI director James Comey on Monday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley asked for more detail about revelations made in a Washington Post article last week about an agreement the FBI made with Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier and a former MI6 agent.
The Post reported that the FBI agreed in October to pay Steele to continue his research on potential ties between Trump associates and the Russian government. Steele was also working at the time for Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C.-based opposition research firm that had been hired by an ally of Hillary Clinton in June to dig up dirt on Trump.
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Right, that's why they didn't pay him for the report and didn't take it until McCain sent an aid to Britain to get it for free.
Welcome to FR, troll
I smell ozone....
In that case, maybe the pre-election scramble where Comey resumed the Hillary investigation was Comey’s own brand of deception to keep from going to jail.
If this is true, then the entire FBI management-level tier needs to be sacked immediately. And then prosecuted. It should have been done after Waco.
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