The FBI wouldn't have been able to obtain a FISA warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page if not for the Steele dossier, but even Christopher Steele's main—and only—source contradicted some of the key claims in the dossier.

Stated more directly, the Steele dossier was the only evidence the FBI had prior to obtaining documents from the Steele dossier during their Sept. 19, 2016, meeting that Carter Page was somehow “an agent of a foreign power”.

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Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Russians successfully targeted Steele, "because some Russian disinformation made its way into the Steele dossier."

A top FBI intelligence analyst under investigation for failing to properly vet the Steele dossier before it was used to obtain invalid warrants to spy on a former Trump campaign aide appears to have violated his own “Golden Rule” for government spying

A top FBI intelligence analyst under investigation for failing to properly vet the Steele dossier before it was used to obtain invalid warrants to spy on a former Trump campaign aide appears to have violated his own “Golden Rule” for government spying

The problem is, of course, that the Steele dossier was used to get the wiretaps that Rosenstein subsequently got approved.

Spread of Steele Dossier to UK Intelligence In addition to Kramer, Steele was also providing his dossier to members of UK intelligence.

(Leon Neal/Getty Images) The Steele Dossier As we move toward the year’s close, one final item worth noting remains: The Steele dossier has been debunked.

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The FISA warrant application featured claims from an unverified dossier of opposition research on Trump, and Steele compiled the dossier by using second- and third-hand sources with ties to the Kremlin.

It's possible that Obama might have received information contained in the Steele dossier from Brennan as early as August 2016.

He later discovered that the Steele dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

You know who also knew what the Steele dossier said even before McCain showed up at the FBI building to personally hand him a copy of it? Comey!

The Intelligence Community Assessment included a classified annex with a summary of the infamous and now-largely-discredited Steele dossier, a document compiled by a former British intelligence officer whose ultimate client was the Hillary Clinton presidential

said Grassley “The Steele Dossier. But I don’t recall reporters and Big Tech censoring the false reporting about President Trump.”

We now know definitively that the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaigns paid for the Steele dossier, the vehicle that the FBI used to lie to a federal court to obtain a surveillance warrant.

They did the same thing with the Steele dossier.

Steele Dossier Falling Apart The veracity of the Steele dossier has come under question as time has progressed with some notable retractions from some surprising quarters.

Fusion GPS, in turn, retained former British spy Christopher Steele, who, using his extensive connections with Russian intelligence officials and agents, compiled what came to be known as the “Steele dossier.”

Elias also represented 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, whose campaign paid for the opposition research firm he hired, Fusion GPS that produced the since discredited “Steele Dossier” containing multiple false allegations against

The SSA said Steele instead "had a subsource network that provided him the reporting" for the dossier, and that the agent felt it was "important" to identify Steele's source network in validating the accuracy of the dossier.

Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to run the Clinton-funded project, peddled the dossier to the media while Steele funneled it to the FBI.

Somma took part in the January 2017 interviews with Igor Danchenko, the primary source for the Steele dossier.

Comey then met with President-elect Trump to inform him of the dossier. This meeting took place just hours after Comey, Brennan, and Clapper formally briefed Obama on both the ICA and the Steele dossier.

who would author the controversial "Steele dossier" on Donald Trump and his campaign.

Steele Dossier Shenanigans The entire “Trump–Russia Election Collusion” narrative hinges on Cohen having been in Prague in 2016 because that is a central assertion of the Steele dossier—and if that central claim turns out to be false, the entire house

The Steele dossier is the discredited document that was investigated in the two-year probe, which found no Trump/Russia collusion.

Former British spy Christopher Steele compiled the dossier by paying second- and third-hand sources with ties to the Kremlin.

He says even though the FBI knew that the Steele dossier (an opposition report alleging collusion between Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign) was part of a DNC Hillary Clinton opposition research dump that turned out to be nearly completely