Posted on 01/15/2021 6:02:49 AM PST by TigerClaws
D Delivering in his final days on one of his last unfulfilled promises, President Trump is declassifying a massive trove of FBI documents showing the Russia collusion story was leaked in the final weeks of the 2016 election in an effort to counteract Hillary Clinton's email scandal.
The memos to be released as early as Friday include FBI interviews and human source evaluation reports for two of the main informants in the Russia case, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and academic Stefan Halper.
The president authorized the release of a foot-high stack of internal FBI and DOJ documents that detail significant flaws in the investigation and provide a detailed timeline of when the FBI first realized the Steele dossier was problematic, multiple government officials told Just the News.
Among the bombshell revelations is an admission by Steele that he violated his confidential human source agreement with the FBI and leaked information from his dossier to the news media in the final weeks of the election because he wanted to counteract new revelations in the Hillary Clinton email scandal that were hurting her election efforts. The former foreign intelligence officer made the confession in a fall 2017 interview with agents.
Steele, who was hired by Clinton's campaign law firm to compile anti-Trump dossiers attempting to link Trump to Russian influence, told agents he had two clients at the time — Clinton and the FBI — and chose the interests of the Democratic candidate over the bureau in leaking.
Steele told the bureau that then-FBI Director James Comey's decision to reopen the Clinton email probe in fall 2016 triggered him to leak his dossier details in what he described as a taking-the-gloves-off moment.
The FBI interview summary makes clear that Steele, a British citizen, was allegiant to Clinton, did not like Trump and believed a Trump presidency would be negative for his homeland and thus made a decision to meddle in the U.S. election by leaking information to the news media.
The leaks, which led to Steele's termination as an FBI informant, have been known for more than a year, but his motivation for leaking was hidden in the classified documents.
His admission that the Russia collusion narrative, later debunked by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was injected into the public as a means of counteracting Clinton's email scandal corroborates other information obtained by the CIA.
Declass baby!
I’m not impressed—not impressed at all. This should have been done a year ago!
Wont do anything to stop our new president JinPingPong.
Too late.
cc: Durham, Huber, Sessions and Bagpipes.
So? Who’s gonna prosecute? Who’s gonna call for an investigation? None of this matters in a one-party system, particularly when the party in power controls everything.
This shoulda been done last year
I am going to trust Trump’s timing.
The timing is perfect. For the deep state.
They don’t care that the election was illegally overturned; WHY would they ever care about this?
I’m sure they’re all gonna arrest themselves...
Why now? Why not in January of 2017? Why sit on this miscarriage of justice for four years?
Too late to make any difference other than correcting the MSM and RAT lies.
Wish Trump had done it sooner.
Better late than never.
Plus for far more than just the personal Trump adversaries. Assange should have ben pardoned—or more precisely had his charges dropped—years ago.
All in Russia the recordings
Too little, too late.
As I posted elsewhere, but then what? Our Pravda media will not touch anything that is damning to the Democrats, and neither will Big Tech want any of this disseminated.
“Authorized” and “Ordered” are two different things.
President authorized releases a year ago, but deep state slow walks the data to be released.
Nothing will be released.
Debunked? What? Mueller intentionally dragged it out as long as he could, even knowing that it was false.
At best in the end Mueller would do little better than suggest "probably guilty but not proven". If Mueller had any intention of debunking this hoax, he could have accomplished that is two or three months tops.
Mueller is a shameful excuse for a man. He needs to rot in hell for contributing to the weakening of our country and our system, and our president.
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