Posted on 09/24/2020 7:55:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A sub-source used to compile the so-called Steele Dossier, a controversial opposition research document against then-candidate Donald Trump, was previously the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation, Attorney General William Barr disclosed in a letter released on Thursday.
The detail was previously redacted from a footnote in Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz's 2019 report on four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, or FISA, court warrant applications.
But U.S. Attorney John Durham, tapped by Barr to review the origins of the FBI's Russia probe, signed off on Barr releasing the detail to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is doing his own investigation into the FBI's probe into Russia's 2016 election meddling and the Trump campaign.
"I have consulted with Mr. Durham, who originally brought this information to my attention in the course of his investigation, and he has informed me that disclosure of the information will not interfere with his criminal investigation," Barr wrote in the letter to Graham.
Durham allowing the detail to be publicly released is a signal that he is unlikely to be planning criminal indictments related to this part of his investigation.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Cliff notes version: Clinton-Steele Dossier source was a RUSSIAN SPY and the Russian colluding FIBBERS have know it the whole time.
...and interviewed this spy that they knew was a national security threat and even gave this spy immunity and yet they continued on using the Steele dossier in FISA warrant renewals
If the FBI had been doing its job 90 percent of the BS we have .been put through for the last 4 years would not have happened.
If the FBI had been doing its job 90 percent of the BS we have .been put through for the last 4 years would not have happened.
If there had been substantive Congressional oversight of the FIB 100% of the BS we have been put through would not have happened. The coupists would have been unmasked in 2017 and POTUS would have been cleared of the Russian collusion nonsense. Likely the GOP would have kept the House and POTUS would never have been assaulted by the impeachment hoax. The bipartisan nature of the ongoing coup can not be ignored.
Who ordered it to be redacted in the first place?
They’ve been falsely accusing a sitting POTUS of high crimes for the past 3 1/2 years. Men have hung for less.
Yeah. For four years everyone pretended it was real when everyone knew it was bunk.
Now everyone's pretending they didn't know or claim they weren't in the loop or they thought someone else was responsible for it.
There are few a**holes as overrated and unethical as government a**holes - particularly the liberal variety.
IIRC, the name of the sub-source in the footnotes is Igor Danchenkov, of the Brookings Institution, and who has worked closely with Fiona Hill at Brookings.
Nest of rattlesnakes at Brookings.
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