Posted on 04/15/2020 6:00:34 PM PDT by bitt
Newly declassified footnotes from a government report, first obtained by CBS News, show that despite multiple warnings about Russian targeting and the potential for disinformation, the FBI relied on the controversial Steele dossier to secure surveillance warrants for a Trump campaign aide before and after the 2016 election.
Among the revelations, a 2017 U.S. intelligence community report indicated that two individuals "affiliated" with Russian intelligence knew of former British spy Christopher Steele's "election investigation" in early July 2016, three months before the FBI would begin citing the dossier.
"..[A]n early June 2017 USIC (US Intelligence Community) report indicated that two persons affiliated with RIS (Russian Intelligence Services) were aware of Steele's election investigation in early July 2016," the footnote said. "The Supervisory Intel Analyst told us he was aware of these reports, but that he had no information as of June 2017 that Steele's election reporting source network had been penetrated or compromised."
The FBI first sought a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Trump campaign aide Carter Page in October 2016, and relied in part on material from Steele.
The timing is notable because the June 2017 intelligence report was known to the FBI in the earliest days of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, which was opened weeks earlier, in May. The bureau had been tipped off that Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos had said that the campaign might get help from Russia on damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
Steele has insisted that his information was unverified. The New York Times noted last year that in a lawsuit deposition about the dossier, "Asked whether he took into account that some claims might be Russian fabrications, [Steele] replied, 'Yes.'" Steele was also asked during the deposition whether he warned Fusion GPS "that a central problem when you
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#FISA READ IG report declassified footnotes released to @SenRonJohnson and @ChuckGrassley earlier today by @ODNIgov. First reported @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/EYi6Yu9ebM— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) April 15, 2020
Any day now.
Oh, wait. I hear bagpipes.
All Putin had to do was sit back and watch the corrupt CIA, FBI and DOJ attempt a quiet coup against Trump and a 3 year political and media shit-storm.
Please remind me again, who is the enemy of the America?
They all knew this “Russian Collision” was total BS, they ALL knew and they continued with it anyway, because it was ALL about destroying Trump
L8r
CBS reporting actual news?
What’s the catch?
How does Herridge get away with writing truth like this for CBS?
“...the FBI relied on the controversial Steele dossier to secure surveillance warrants for a Trump campaign aide before and after the 2016 election..”
Apparently everyone in the world knows it except Barr and Durham. I hope I have to eat my words but the Hoover damn and the Empire State Building were put together faster than these Dick Tracys can put together an open and shut case.
15 Apr: Zero Hedge: Google Subpoenaed For Hillary Clinton Emails Believed To Contain Backup To Records Scrubbed With “Bleachbit”
by Tyler Durden
Google has been ordered to turn over all Hillary Clinton emails from a Gmail account believed to contain backups to communications from her personal server which her IT specialist, Paul Combetta, reportedly scrubbed using BleachBit...
On Wednesday, watchdog group Judicial Watch announced that Google had been served with a subpoena seeking all Clinton email from January 21, 2009 until February 1, 2013 from her time at the Obama State Department where she served as Secretary of State...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/google-subpoenaed-hillary-clinton-emails-believed-contain-backup-records-scrubbed
If you want to see it all laid out, h/t to little jeremiah
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3835414/posts?page=368#368
Unfortunately, Judicial Watch can’t prosecute and Wray is not interested.
two individuals “affiliated” with Russian intelligence knew of former British spy Christopher Steele’s “election investigation” in early July 2016, three months before the FBI would begin citing the dossier.
Would that be John Brennan and James Clapper?
The FBI knew that Steele was being fed misinformation from Russians. They knew that Steele didn’t consider his information to be “intelligence.” They knew that Steele’s “informants” didn’t consider the things they told Steele to be “intelligence.”
Why didn’t the FBI open an investigation into Steele for interfering in a U.S. election using foreign misinformation?
The answer is obvious and it indicts the entire 0bama administration.
The drip, drip, drip of the truth continues. Too bad nobody is paying attention or even cares #chinavirus.
We (Trump supporters) already thought this.
Trump haters don’t care, don’t comprehend it, and will not change their minds.
This was a coup attempt. They weaponized law enforcement and our intel community (even our allies) to try to get rid of Trump. A lesser man would have resigned or folded under the pressure.
Barr has stated publicaly that Durham is looking into this.
I expect indictments.
Start with Clinesmith and go up the ladder.
This will be another victim of Caronavirus.
Because it’s not truth. All of the info in the Steele dossier came from American IC sources. Blame is being shifted to the Russians to mitigate US IC liability. Basically their defense is “we were fooled by the Russians, no US sources had ulterior motives”.
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