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Steele said he received information that came from "a foreign sub-source who 'is in touch with (redacted), a contact of (redacted), a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to (redacted).”

Huh ? A friend, who knows the uncle of a cousin of an acquaintance of his boss who is a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to...

man, you should be able to get at least 100 warrants off of that.

Isn't it cute that all these "friends" pop up in these stories?

For instance, Comey testified that he stole documents off of his FBI-issued laptop (a crime), while on FBI time, and passed those documents - notes from a meeting with President Trump which was requested by Comey - to a FRIEND in academia (a crime) who passed them to the media (another crime). Then Comey's little friend morphed into Comey's Counsel of Record. So now we have friend-to-friend privileged information so they can protect each other against testifying against one another.

Then the Comey-to-Friend-to-Media leak brought about the naming of Comey's friend, Mueller, to craft the outline of Trump's impeachment under the guise of acting as a Special Prosecutor.

Nice friendly relationships, huh?

as in Andrew McCarthy’s excellent piece,

“Proceeding from the erroneous premise that former British spy Christopher Steele is the source of the dossier information, these analysts posit the inarguable proposition that the government is not required to provide the court with all of the potential credibility problems of an information source.

Therefore, the theory goes, there is nothing untoward in the government’s failure to inform the FISA court that Steele’s information was bought and paid for by the Democratic presidential candidate, and then used in an application in which agencies run by the Democratic president sought court-authorized surveillance of the Republican candidate’s campaign.

Here’s the problem: Steele is not the source of the information. For purposes of the warrant application, he is the purveyor of information from other sources. The actual sources of the information are Steele’s informants — anonymous Russians providing accounts based on hearsay three- and four-times removed from people said to have observed the events alleged.