The infamous “Steele Dossier” contained multiple unverified allegations about Trump colluding with Russian interests against Clinton and was the prime document used by the FBI to justify its spying on members of Trump's 2016 campaign team.

A common take was that Page was just an attention-hound, basking in the warm glow of the media coverage he was receiving after having been "outed" by the Steele dossier as a “Russian agent,” and that he was too stupid to realize he needed to stay out

Remember the Steele dossier, the fantastical document confected by the “well-regarded” British spook Christopher Steele? It was the only relevant predicate for ordering FISA warrants against Carter Page and other U.S. citizens.

The comments were made during an online talk with people who worked in Obama's administration and leaked to Yahoo News's Michael Isikoff, one of the first reporters to report on the discredited Steele 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.

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

According to the IG report, Steele met with Kavalec and other State Department officials on Oct. 11, 2016. During the meeting, Steele briefed those present on the contents of his dossier.

Circular reporting, provided by Steele himself, was used as corroboration of the dossier.

"The Steele Dossier was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign with help from the DOJ and the FBI."

Jekielek:  The Steele dossier.  Mr. Nunes:  Well, the Steele dossier was involved in the whole thing. But the fact is, there's just so much lying that occurred. It was the biggest scandal in U.S. history. So how did I know about it?

So, yes, Comey got his wish, a crimeless case seeking process crimes on Trump, which even Andrew Weissmann (also involved earlier with the Steele dossier) couldn't find.

The ICA made it official that Putin had tried to help Trump, and was based in part on the fraudulent Steele dossier.

The claim that Cohen traveled to Prague only exists in the Steele dossier and was never verified by another source. Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm that paid Steele, pushed the claim to news media and government investigators.

At some point in early July, Steele’s early dossier reports were passed to Nuland and the State Department—possibly through Jonathan Winer, then a State Department official who was friends with Steele, perhaps through Gaeta or possibly through Steele

Lo and behold, it was leaked to Michael Isikoff, the same Michael Isikoff who was the happy recipient of the leaked Steele dossier way back before Robert Mueller began his Don Quixote-like quest to get Trump.

Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), for example, the former special counsel indicated that he was unfamiliar with Fusion GPS—the Democrat opposition research firm that compiled the infamous Steele dossier of salacious and unsubstantiated claims about President Donald

The FBI obtained the warrant targeting Page using evidence from the infamous Clinton-funded Steele dossier.

Dossier Origins A part of Smith’s work was to try to retrace the origins of the Steele dossier, a collection of unsubstantiated claims that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to sway the election.

Flynn secretly through Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, we know he was also targeting President Donald Trump by secretly leaking the Steele dossier to CNN's Jake Tapper.

The information he conveyed was later included nearly word-for-word in the dossier, which Steele compiled on behalf of Clinton and other Democrats.

Based on anonymous sources who provided no evidence whatsoever for their claims, McClatchy's reporters alleged foreign intelligence services had detected Cohen's phone in the Prague area when the Steele dossier claimed he was there.

Comey is telling congressional investigators the Steele dossier wasn't verified as of May 2017. The dossier was used as the primary piece of evidence by the FBI to obtain the Carter Page FISA warrant on Oct. 21, 2016.

Besides its funding, several other issues with the dossier were left out from the FISA application, including the fact that Christopher Steele, an ex-spy from the UK who wrote the dossier, was biased against Trump and broke the FBI's rules for confidential

Ohr worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier, from late 2015 through September 2016.

To be clear, he wasn’t calling it “spying”—just “investigating” the opposing party to the one in power based on demonstrably false information, such as the Steele dossier and the musings of Australian diplomats.

The claims in the Steele dossier remain unverified, more than two years after copies of it first began circulating.

Horowitz's final report was absolutely crucial in unveiling the final bits of evidence that proved the Steele dossier was a fraud and that the Spygate scandal is very real.

The dossier was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired for the job, through intermediaries, by the Democratic National Committee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent in the election.

This information, which was used by the FBI to “corroborate” the dossier, was provided to Isikoff by the author of the dossier, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele.

One of the two officials, Serhiy Leshchenko, is known to have provided information to Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the Clinton-funded Steele dossier.