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FBI Papers Show Payments to Trump Dossier Author Steele
Newsmax ^ | 4 Aug 2018 | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 08/04/2018 7:58:43 AM PDT by mandaladon

The FBI Friday released 71 heavily redacted pages describing that it had corresponded with former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and revealed the agency was paying him to gather intelligence.

The records show Steele was being paid for work as a "confidential human source" for an unspecified amount of time, and that he'd told the FBI he had informed a third party he was acting as an agency source, reports NBC News.

In addition, the papers show the FBI had determined Steele was the source for an online news article.

Even though the FBI has labeled the released file as "Records between FBI and Christopher Steele Part 01 of 01," the former spy's name itself doesn't appear in the documents, notes the Washington Examiner.

The redactions make it impossible to tell when the FBI started paying Steele, NBC News reported. However, in February 2016, the agency "admonished" Steele. A federal law enforcement official explained that this simply means he was briefed on his duties of being an informant, not being punished or criticized.

Then, on Nov. 1, 2016, just a week before the presidential election, the FBI told Steele he should not "obtain any evidence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI," as it was not likely to keep working with him.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201602; 201611; 20161101; braking; chrissteele; christophersteele; dossier; fbi; fbidocdump; fundingtheleft; steele; steeledossier; trump; trumprussia
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1 posted on 08/04/2018 7:58:43 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Bump!


2 posted on 08/04/2018 8:00:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: mandaladon

Nothing to see here.

Trump colluded with the Russians I tell ya!


3 posted on 08/04/2018 8:02:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: mandaladon
STUNNING: FBI Continued to Gather Junk Documents from Christopher Steele 12 TIMES after Election (VIDEO)

"Congressional investigators know that Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Trump dossier on behalf of the Clinton campaign, kept supplying allegations to the FBI after the 2016 election — and even after he was terminated as a source by the bureau for giving confidential information to the media.

Because he had broken his agreement with the FBI, bureau procedure did not allow agents to keep using Steele as a source. But they did so anyway — by devising a system in which Steele spoke regularly with Bruce Ohr, a top Obama Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Steele to search for dirt on Donald Trump in Russia. Ohr then passed on Steele’s information to the FBI.

In a highly unusual arrangement, Ohr, who was the fourth-highest ranking official in the Justice Department, acted as an intermediary for a terminated source for the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. His task was to deliver to the FBI what Steele told him, which effectively meant the bureau kept Steele as a source.

Agents made a record of each time Ohr gave the bureau information from Steele. Those records are in the form of so-called 302 reports, in which the FBI agents write up notes of interviews during an investigation.

There are a dozen 302 reports on FBI post-election interviews of Ohr. The first was Nov. 22, 2016. After that, the FBI interviewed Ohr on Dec. 5; Dec. 12; Dec. 20; Jan. 23, 2017; Jan. 25; Jan. 27; Feb. 6; Feb. 14; May 8; May 12; and May 15. The dates, previously unreported publicly, were included in a July letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to the FBI and Justice Department.

4 posted on 08/04/2018 8:03:34 AM PDT by kabar
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To: mandaladon

Total Hillary/DNC/FBI frame-up from the very start.


5 posted on 08/04/2018 8:03:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: mandaladon

SO...

IF this article has any truth to it at all, Mueller knows what it says, and we know Our President has and knows EVERYTHING, so why the ‘Witch Hunt’ for over a year and a half???

BECAUSE:

IF the article has any truth to it at all, Mueller is there to cover his own butt and the other dirt bags that are all involved in this worse than Watergate ever thought of being cover up!!!


6 posted on 08/04/2018 8:04:52 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who the HELL colluded with the Clinton campaign to spend OUR tax money on this damned meddlesome Brit’s fake dossier? Interference by a foreign government to benefit the campaign of a presidential campaign using American citizens tax money to help pay off the Brit creep who had been hired by that candidate’s stinking law firm?? Oh, this was “collusion” by Trump, eh?


7 posted on 08/04/2018 8:09:27 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Jim Robinson
i thought the fbis denied paying him? liars all...
8 posted on 08/04/2018 8:12:31 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: HarleyLady27

We can hope, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the DOJ and FBI redacts documents they provide to the White House as well as withholding documents. They beleive themselves independent of any oversight but their own internal oversight.


9 posted on 08/04/2018 8:15:36 AM PDT by damper99
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To: kabar

The ‘Rats colluded with the Brits?

Sign up a Special Persecutor!


10 posted on 08/04/2018 8:16:18 AM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: laconic

And these people (Hillary/DNC/FBI/DeepState, Inc.] all colluded with Russia to produce this fake Russian-sourced political-attack document to begin with.


11 posted on 08/04/2018 8:16:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: HarleyLady27
If there's one thing I learned way back in the '90s (Clinton, Lewinsky, Whitewater, Vince Foster, Travelgate et. al.), it's that an establishment Democrat can stand in the middle of Main Street at high noon and execute a little old lady and never, ever be held accountable for it.

So, reports like this get a shrug out of me and not much else.

12 posted on 08/04/2018 8:22:25 AM PDT by daler
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To: kabar

I would love to see the “bonuses” that Mrs. Ohr received for this special access to her husband. This is another Demon-rat pay for play scheme. Ohr is the one who should be on trial.


13 posted on 08/04/2018 8:24:18 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: mandaladon

The FBI documents are blank !

So much for the FOI act.


14 posted on 08/04/2018 8:26:09 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: damper99

So far they are 100% correct. There has not been one news article about this subject. There has not been one investigation. No one has been arrested. Sessions still doing nothing but covering for the Deep State. Deja Vu all over again!


15 posted on 08/04/2018 8:30:36 AM PDT by DrDude (Waiting for the Game to start. Gotta move the Goal Posts again!)
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To: laconic

No collusion, Conspiracy !

Conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected President of the US.

That’s Sedition

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Lock em all up


16 posted on 08/04/2018 8:36:07 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: mandaladon
And if no one does anything does it matter?

The KEY to the Russia narrative is Christopher Steele.

Get him to talk and everything will fall into place.

He's clearly being ignored (and protected) by everyone for some reason.

I have no doubt he maintains a close relationship with British intelligence.

17 posted on 08/04/2018 8:38:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: mandaladon

Two Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers went to London in June to talk to Steele, but were refused.

All they could do was leave their contact information at Steele’s office and with Steele’s lawyer who was meeting with Steele at the time.


18 posted on 08/04/2018 8:46:49 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: HarleyLady27

An excellent conclusion, although Mueller may now realize that he’s swimming up stream. What’s his next move...will he drown or will someone throw him a life line?


19 posted on 08/04/2018 8:49:15 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: mandaladon

No wonder the FBI is blocking this investigation.
Steele got $$$ from the FBI and Hillary’s legal team.
This is enough to prove Conspiracy involving the FBI, Hillary and probably the State Dept.


20 posted on 08/04/2018 8:52:35 AM PDT by Zathras
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