In addition to Chalupa's efforts, the Clinton campaign and the DNC funded an opposition research project that resulted in the infamous Steele dossier.

The source for the core claims in the warrant was Christopher Steele, a former British spy who authored the infamous Steele dossier.

The special counsel probe was a continuation of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation that was based in part on information contained in the so-called Steele dossier, which was paid for by the Clinton 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic

It's the same agency involved in the Russiagate hoax, the Steele dossier, and the fake information given to the FISA court. We're tired of hearing politicians talk about investigating it.

(Though he built his reputation challenging election laws and litigating recounts, he is now better known for his role in passing Democratic Party monies to Fusion GPS to pay for the Steele Dossier.)

By that time, Danchenko was concerned about sharing any more information with Steele because he felt Steele had embellished details from Danchenko when placing them in the dossier.

In addition to the Steele dossier, the Russia-collusion investigation was largely predicated on Misfud's alleged statements to Papadopoulos that the Russians had obtained Clinton's emails.

The IG found a litany of “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the warrant, which heavily relied on the infamous Steele dossier, a collection of unsubstantiated rumors about Trump colluding with Russia to sway the 2016 election, which was spread

So, as time went on, we found out that, hey, that Steele dossier, that was actually done by a guy called Christopher Steele and he was actually paid by the Clinton campaign. Oh, okay.

Durham was appointed by Barr to lead a DOJ criminal investigation into the FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane probe of the allegations raised by the Steele dossier.

Juries in Washington and Virginia acquitted both, though the cases brought to light significant evidence, including that neither Steele nor Danchenko provided information to corroborate the dossier. Durham has not said publicly what's next.

According to The Telegraph article, by the end of his first meeting with Steele, Farr had decided that the allegations within the Steele dossier “had to go up the chain of command.”

That warrant application was based largely on the unverified Steele dossier. The four officials are accused of depriving Page of his rights and of investigative misconduct.

John Cornyn (R-Texas) that he was reviewing whether the now-infamous Steele dossier at the center of the Mueller probe was itself a product of Russian disinformation.

Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told congressional investigators that Leschenko also served as a source for Fusion GPS, the firm paid by the Clinton campaign and the DNC to produce the Steele dossier, a collection of unsubstantiated

Elias famously served as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign lawyer, where he helped facilitate the creation of the dubious Steele dossier, core to the Russiagate scandal, and the Democrats’ sustained campaign to characterize Donald Trump’s election as illegitimate

In short, what we have with this storyline is another Steele dossier. I'll note that in the Democrats mania to overturn the 2016 elections everything they touch gets hopelessly politicized.

There were “significant questions” raised about the “reliability of the Steele dossier that was used in the Carter Page FISA applications,” Horowitz concluded, adding that “the FISA applications relied entirely on information from the Steele reporting

Steele told the FBI that information in the dossier came from a single source that had a network of other sub-sources. The FBI interviewed the primary source over three days, from Jan. 24 to 26, 2017.

Steele and his employers had for months peddled the dossier to the media, the FBI, the State Department, the Justice Department, and Congress. The first installment of the dossier was dated June 20, 2016.

dossier in it.

Many of these names were related to Fusion GPS—the opposition research company behind the controversial Steele dossier. Notably, the referred names cut off at a certain political level.

This “second dossier,” compiled by longtime Clinton operative and former journalist Cody Shearer, echoed claims made in the Steele dossier. Winer gave Steele a copy of the “second dossier.”

The FBI made its case against him using the Steele dossier, a collection of unsubstantiated claims of Trump–Russia collusion paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 presidential campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Ohr stated that, during her work with Fusion GPS that ultimately assisted in the production of the Steele Dossier—comprising false allegations against then-candidate Trump—Fusion GPS used information from sources in Ukraine, including Serhiy Leshchenko

This Steele source told the FBI he didn’t know what Steele was talking about in the dossier, and that he’d told Steele that the information he’d provided was “supposition” and “theory.” At that point, “it was clear the dossier was a sham.”

Several Republican members of the House committees, such as Devin Nunes of California and Mark Meadows of North Carolina, have read the unredacted FISA warrant and claim that information showing the fully political nature of the Steele dossier doesn't

The Surveillance Warrant The core of the surveillance warrant application consists of intelligence from the so-called Steele dossier, a document funded by the Clinton campaign and composed by former British spy Christopher Steele.

Nunes's Feb. 2, 2018, memo stated that the FBI used unverified opposition research, the Steele dossier, to obtain a warrant to spy on Page.

But the trial itself served the public because key facts that were previously unknown or largely unconfirmed, such as the FBI offering dossier author Christopher Steele $1 million to confirm any portions of the dossier, Barr argued.