The bureau's decision to obtain the warrant was significantly influenced by the infamous Steeledossier of unverified opposition research on Trump. The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Nation Committee paid for the dossier.
The allegations matched closely with some of the contents of the Steeledossier.
In public testimony, Brennan said the briefings were consistent with the findings of the Intelligence Community Assessment released on January 5, 2017.
In the dossier, Steele alleged that Page met with Kremlin insiders during the 2016 campaign. Steele also accused Page of working with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to conspire with Russians.
The new details beneath the previously blacked-out portions of the memo show that the FBI was still investigating allegations against Trump campaign associate Carter Page in May 2017, which were part of the infamous Steeledossier.
The so-called Steeledossier, which was paid for by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, served as the foundation for the Russia narrative.
Without the dossier, the FBI had no case.
The Schiff memo took the second approach. It confirmed the FBI and DOJ used the Steeledossier in Carter Page’s case, but sought to downplay the importance of the dossier.
The Steele memos would later be part of the infamous Steeledossier, which the FBI used, without due verification, to obtain a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
According to earlier reporting by The Epoch Times, the FBI relied heavily on news articles and open sources in its efforts to corroborate claims in the Steeledossier.
These legacy media reporters insist the real trigger for the Trump campaign investigation wasn't the Steeledossier allegations but instead Mifsud’s contact with Papadopoulos in London in March 2016.
But none of the 103 key allegations contained in the Steeledossier were verified during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation.
"Perkins Coie also was the law firm that had hired Fusion GPS—on behalf of the DNC and the Clinton campaign—which, in turn, hired former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele to produce the dossier that has become known as the Steeledossier."
The attorney representing Wyss in the FEC matter was Marc Elias, the Democratic party super lawyer who specializes in contesting elections—Elias also served as the DNC’s cut-out to pay for the debunked SteeleDossier, which alleged that former President
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Steele.”
Kramer traveled to London to meet with Steele on Nov. 28, 2016. Kramer reviewed all the memos during his meeting with Steele but wasn't provided with a physical copy of the dossier.
In particular, the political bias revealed in the Strozk/Page texts, use of the discredited Steeledossier to initiate and sustain the FBI's counterintelligence investigation and FISA warrants, and leaks to the media that created the false narrative of
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The dossier, created by former British spy and former FBI informant Christopher Steele, was the cornerstone of the FBI’s FISA application against Page.
That review that is also likely to devote significant attention to the highly questionable credibility of the Steeledossier, prepared by former British spy Christopher Steele with assistance from Russian interests and paid for by Clinton’s 2016 presidential
We do need to get to the bottom of the dossier—the Steeledossier that the DNC [Democratic National Committee] and Hillary Clinton's campaign paid for leading up to the 2016 election.
We also know from his own testimony that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper played some kind of role in helping CNN report on the unverified “Steeledossier” filled with salacious allegations about President Trump.
