Nunes Memo Criticism
Several issues with the Page FISA warrant were highlighted by Nunes in his Jan. 18, 2018, memo, including that the warrant relied heavily on the Steeledossier, a collection of unsubstantiated claims about Trump-Russia collusion
And then they went out and hired Christopher Steele for the Steeledossier, so all of that funneled back in.
But what Fusion GPS and company and Sussmann are now saying it's all work product.
Everyone involved who signed the FISA request has been documented to have known the Steeledossier was bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign and they were fully aware that not a single item of information in the dossier was confirmed to be true.
The application of the warrant, which was signed off by Comey and McCabe, relied on information from a so-called Steeledossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, that was ultimately been proven to be not credible.
Schiff said during the interview that the FBI didn't rely on the Steeledossier. However, Horowitz said that the dossier played an "essential" role in FBI obtaining spy warrants on Page.
Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has seen the full Page FISA warrant and has claimed for more than two years that it contains many of the now-debunked and unverified Steeledossier allegations.
The dossier was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, based in part on information he gleaned from individuals close to Russian intelligence agencies.
Baker said he either knew or assumed at the time that Corn had gotten the dossier from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, whom Steele was working for.
Congressional testimonies by FBI and DOJ officials showed that author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, as well as Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS—the company behind the dossier—spread the information to the FBI, DOJ, State Department, Congress
Her campaign paid for the infamous pile of scabrous innuendo known as the Steeledossier. Where did Steele scrounge up those fantastic rumors? From shadowy Russian sources? Will wonders never cease?
There were “significant questions” raised about the “reliability of the Steeledossier that was used in the Carter Page FISA applications,” Horowitz concluded, adding that "the FISA applications relied entirely on information from the Steele reporting
The FBI also relied on other allegations sourced to Millian as both “Source E” and “Source D” in the Steeledossier, including the made-up story that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a compromising sex tape of Trump cavorting with prostitutes in a
August 3, 2023By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
The existence of the House report on the ICA, which hasn't been previously reported, comes to light less than one month after newly declassified documents revealed that the FBI was aware that a key part of the infamous Steeledossier could have been the
In its FISA warrant application, the FBI heavily relied on the increasingly discredited Steeledossier, a collection of unsubstantiated claims about Trump-Russia ties put together by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was paid to do so by the
Carter Page was subjected to a year of FISA surveillance through a warrant based on the dossier concocted by Steele, even though none of the claims in the dossier have been verified to this day.
Trump and his campaign were investigated by the FBI for years over the dossier compiled by Steele, which was paid for by Clinton and other Democrats. The dossier contained many claims that have remained unsubstantiated to this day.
It reached a peak when it was discovered that McCain played a role in introducing the infamous Steeledossier to the FBI in order to further defame the incoming President and contribute to the investigation into alleged collusion with Russia.
Did you supervise his work in the creation of the “dossier”?
13) Like Simpson, Baumgartner worked on both the Steeledossier project and another Fusion GPS project, the Prevezon money-laundering case.
The warrant was in large part based on the Steeledossier, a collection of unsubstantiated claims about collusion between Russia and the campaign of then-candidate Trump.
Separately, Gensler has lately raised conflict-of-interest concerns arising from his past role as chief financial officer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, in which he had final approval authority over payments for the discredited Steeledossier.
September 21, 2022By Benjamin Weingarten, RealClearInvestigations
With the Steeledossier in hand—a dossier, remember that was furnished via various shady Russian operatives—Hillary & Co. then accused Trump and various members of his circle—Michael Flynn, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos—of doing exactly
He criticized what he called a double standard, pointing out that a New York Times story on the president's illegally leaked tax returns wasn't censored, and the now-discredited Steeledossier was widely shared without fact-checking or disclaimers.