Hillary Clinton paid for the dossier and Obama approved the fake FISA warrant application base don the dossier. This are the leaders of the4 coup. The FBI were soldiers not elders.
I'm sure he approved of it. But his staff undoubtedly protected him by signing it themselves and notifying him with a CC. There's a similar pattern for Hillary's classified emails. Her underlings stripped off the "confidential", "secret", or "top secret" and sent her the info. Or they transcribed into their email client. There were a small number of "(C)" (for confidential) markings that slipped through (compared to the number of classified emails sent).
To pull the same stunt with the fake FISA they merely had to send Obama a report with important details whitewashed, the same way they withheld important details from the FISA court.
Perhaps to really put some bite in the effort he might team up with sham howdy Gowdy.
What a scam. This guy must be a swamper, cause he sure is not serious and regards we peasants as naïve nabobs.
However, to the point that HRC/DNC/BHO paid for the dossier, Dan Bongino stated that the whole thing was a movie script written by Fusion's Glen Simpson back in 2008, repackaged for 2016. Anybody who knows about Trump's germophobia just chuckled at that absurd story.
I tend to think it was repackaged, given to Steele, passed among the players and handed off to several key people, McCain, gal at State, etc. Then sent over to FBI which dummy Comey may have actually believed not knowing his own Mccabe/Strozk were running a scam for Brennan. All fake, incompetent, and the proof is that it didn't work, compromised everyone who touched it and shows how incompetent these statists are.