I don't see how he could not have known that when Andrew Weissmann, his head henchman, was running the back channel with Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele, between the FBI and the Department of Justice, on the bogus Steele dossier.

He would later be sent to London by McCain to meet with the author of the anti-Trump dossier, Christopher Steele.

The Steele dossier was a lie, and they won Pulitzer surprises for it. The faith in that is plummeting.

Reports have said that a significant portion of the FISA application is based on a dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. 

Even former MI6 spook Christopher Steele, he of the Trump–Russia “dossier,” makes a cameo appearance here.

Court documents in the UK, where Christopher Steele—a former British spy who had been hired by Fusion GPS to produce the dossier—is being sued for defamation, reveal that he gave at least two briefings to select members of the media.

The company behind the dossier, Fusion GPS, had commissioned former British spy Christopher Steele and his UK-based company Orbis Business Intelligence to produce the report on Trump.

Graham noted that discredited information from a dossier compiled by former UK spy Christopher Steele wasn't blocked by Twitter. Meanwhile, regarding the allegations that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia, "nobody blocked that," he said.

"And we know that this whole thing was a made up fake story that came from Hillary Clinton's staffer to justify why they lost the election," he added, referring to the unsubstantiated dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.

The FBI and DOJ included the dossier in the FISA application knowing that Steele had breached bureau policies by talking to the media and was opposed to Trump becoming president.

The email was used to obtain spy warrants from a secretive court to surveil Page, along with unsubstantiated information from a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by the campaign of Trump's rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton

"Former DNI Clapper flatly denied "discuss[ing] the dossier [compiled by Steele] or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 elections with journalists," a report by the House intelligence committee reads.

Investigators used information from an unsubstantiated dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele with Fusion GPS's help in applying for the warrants, despite agents developing details that were "inconsistent with the Steele reporting,"

It was Fusion GPS that paid former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the infamous dossier bearing his name and containing multiple unproven salacious allegations against Trump.

The author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, who was hired by Fusion GPS, passed on his information to the FBI as well as to a liaison for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

The former commander-in-chief also made reference to a dossier of mostly debunked claims penned by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by an opposition research firm that was in turn, used by a Democrat-aligned law firm on behalf of Hillary

Gaeta personally received the first draft of the Steele dossier from former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele—whose work was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee—after receiving permission from State Department official

They discovered that the Clinton campaign ultimately paid Steele to dig for dirt on then-candidate Trump during the 2016 presidential election, and also that the dossier that Steele compiled became the core of an application for a warrant to spy on former

A significant portion of the FISA application was reportedly based on a dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. 

Horowitz’s office in December revealed not only “significant errors and omissions,” but it noted concealment of information from the FISA court while using allegations from the controversial unverified dossier created by former UK spy Christopher Steele

spy, Christopher Steele, who was openly pro-Hillary Clinton and anti-Trump.

Steele paid second- and third-hand sources with ties to the Kremlin to obtain the information for the dossier.

Steele is best known for his dossier that was used to build the narrative of the Trump–Russia collusion hoax. It's also an established fact that Steele was a paid confidential source for the FBI beginning in early 2016.

Steele authored the now infamous dossier that in 2016 included claims characterized as “salacious and unverified” by then-FBI Director James Comey about Trump and his campaign.

And that was the Steele dossier that the FBI knew full well. Some sources were suspected Russian agents that the FBI had investigated in 2009. They knew there was Russian disinformation in that as early as January 2 ...

Amey said, “As a lawyer and a top Justice official, Ohr should know that he can’t participate in anything related to his wife’s work … Ohr should have been upfront about his wife’s employment and not touched anything related to Steele, the dossier, and

On the same day, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele drafted a memo for his infamous dossier claiming an extensive Russian government hacking operation.

His comments came following revelations that the Washington-based Russian national who supplied former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele with most of the unverified claims in the infamous Russia dossier was himself investigated by the FBI

The dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by Hilary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee "is a bunch of political garbage, unverified to this day," Graham said at the time.

That research effort culminated in the now-discredited 35-page dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele that purported to tie Trump to the Russian government.