Source of Steele dossier that launched Russia collusion hoax was deemed ‘NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT,’ subject of 2009 FBI counter-intel probe

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Source of Steele dossier was investigated by FBI for Russian contacts, Barr says

AG Bill Barr penned a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

By Brooke Singman | Fox News

Sen. Lindsey Graham says the FBI misled the Senate Intel Committee about the Steele dossier in 2018

This happened on Christopher Wray’s watch, says South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The primary “source” of the anti-Trump dossier authored by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation from 2009 to 2011 for suspected contact with Russian intelligence officers, Fox News has learned.

Attorney General Bill Barr penned a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Thursday responding to requests as part of the panel’s review into the origins of the Russia probe.

“In connection with your Committee’s investigation of these matters and ongoing hearings, you have been asking us to accelerate this process and to provide any additional information relating to the reliability of the work of Christopher Steele and the so-called ‘Steele dossier,’ as long as its release would not compromise U.S. Attorney John Durham’s ongoing criminal investigation,” Barr wrote.

“A footnote in the Inspector General’s report contains information, which up till now has been classified and redacted, bearing on the reliability of the Steele dossier,” Barr wrote. “The FBI has declassified the relevant portion of the footnote, number 334, which states that ‘the Primary Sub-source was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation from 2009 to 2011 that assessed his or her contacts with suspected Russian intelligence officers.'”

Barr added that at his request, the FBI has prepared a declassified summary of certain information from the counterintelligence investigation into the source, which he has shared with the committee.

“I have consulted with Mr. Durham, who originally brought this information to my attention in the course of his investigation, and he has informed me that the disclosure of the information will not interfere with his criminal investigation,” Barr wrote, adding that he alerted Director of National Inteligence John Ratcliffe to “certain classified information in possession of the intelligence community” which “bears upon the FBI’s knowledge of the reliability of the dossier.”

“Mr. Durham confirms that the disclosure of that information would not interfere with his investigaiton, and the Department otherwise defers to the DNI concerning the handling of this information,” Barr said.

Durham was appointed by Attorney General Barr last year to investigate the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe shortly after Special Counsel Robert Mueller completed his years-long investigation into whether the campaign colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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EX-SPY CHRISTOPHER STEELE SURFACES AFTER FISA REPORT CHALLENGES TRUMP DOSSIER RESEARCH

Steele authored and compiled information for the controversial and unverified anti-Trump dossier on behalf of Fusion GPS — the firm that was hired to conduct opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign through law firm Perkins Coie.

The dossier contains claims about alleged ties between Donald Trump and Russia that served as the basis for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants obtained against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

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Meanwhile, Fox News reported in July that the primary source of Steele’s election reporting was not a current or former Russian official, but a non-Russian based contract employee of Steele’s firm. Fox News also reported in July that the information the source provided Steele that served as the basis of the dossier was “second and third-hand information and rumors at best.”The committee earlier this summer released a declassified summary of a three-day interview with the source.

The source, according to the committee, told the FBI in interviews in January and March of 2017 that the information contained in the anti-Trump dossier was unreliable.
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The document revealed that the dossier was “unsubstantiated and unreliable,” according to sources who reviewed it, and showed that the FBI was on notice of the dossier’s credibility problems, yet continued to seek further FISA warrants renewals for Page.

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The document also revealed that Steele’s primary sub-source “disagreed with and was surprised by” how information he gave Steele was then conveyed by Steele in the dossier.

For instance, the source told the FBI he “did not recall” where some of the information attributed to him or his sources came from; was never told about or mentioned to Steele certain information attributed to him or his sources; said that Steele “re-characterized” some of the information to make it more substantiated and “less attenuated” than it really was; and that he would have described some of his sources differently.
Horowitz discovered FBI agents shared Classified info with SteeleVideo

The source also told the FBI, according to committee sources, that Steele “implied direct access to information where the access to information was indirect.”

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz revealed last year in its review of alleged abuses of the FISA system that there were at least 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the Page FISA applications. Horowitz also found that the applications also omitted information regarding the reliability of one of Steele’s key “sub-sources.”

Horowitz added in his report that the key Steele “sub-source” raised questions about the reliability of Steele’s reporting, which was omitted.
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SENATE REPUBLICANS RELEASE FILES THEY SAY ‘UNDERCUT’ STEELE DOSSIER

But Steele’s attorneys, who also represent Orbis Business Intelligence where Steele worked, fired back, complaining they were “never given an opportunity to respond to the claims” regarding the sub-source.

Horowitz said that the FBI “failed to notify” the Office of Investigations, which was working on the Page FISA applications, “of potentially serious problems identified with Steele’s election reporting that arose as early as January 2017.”

In addition to the lack of corroboration of allegations contained in the dossier, Horowitz found that the FBI’s interviews of Steele and his sub-sources “revealed potentially serious problems with Steele’s description of information in his election reports.”

Meanwhile, last month, Ratcliffe transmitted a declassified footnote of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian election interference to Capitol Hill, which noted that Steele had only “limited corroboration” and that he used “identified and unidentified sub-sources” which volunteered “highly politically sensitive information from the summer to the fall of 2016 on Russian influence efforts aimed at the presidential election.”

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

Why Did Hillary Clinton Delete 33,000 Emails on Her Private Email Server ?!!

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-deleted-33000-emails-secretary-state/story?id=42389308

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

‘Oh s–t’: The moment FBI agents found Hillary Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop
https://nypost.com/2019/10/08/oh-s-t-the-moment-fbi-agents-found-hillary-clinton-emails-on-anthony-weiners-laptop/

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Mueller Team Members Joked About Wiping Phones, FBI Agent Says
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mueller-team-members-spoke-comically-about-wiping-phones-fbi-agent-says_3514432.html
Gitmo: they are terrorists, dedicated to overthrowing the USA government.

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Since 2016!! ….. probably sooner!!
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Boy, no wonder the Dems are desperate to dump Trump.
In a new term, Trump can fire Barr and install a fire-breather, and put half of D.C. in the slammer. That’s my hope and their terror.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

IF he gets a second term.

Allot of the GOP also want Trump out too.
Corruption unites them.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Hey Felix, question: How do like being back? You seemed ambivalent about being banned, like it was a good thing in a way…

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

3 or 4 isn’t a lot. MOST of the GOP are working hard on Trump’s behalf! And after the gathering on the National Mall today “The Return”, which was nothing short of God’s Shekinah Glory being in the midst of tens of thousands of believers who were there with their shofars and rans horns, there was a crack of thunder in the middle of Jonathan Cahn’s talk, then a huge blast of the shofars and rams horns … it was absolutely the most AMAZING day there has ever been on the National Mall!!

https://www.lifenews.com/2020/09/26/tens-of-thousands-of-christians-gather-to-pray-in-washington-we-are-one-nation-under-god/

danE DanE
danE DanE
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The NWO crooks, plus barr and wray, are waiting for the statue of limitations to run out. President Trump can fire the DO NOTHING AG barr and the DO NOTHING FBI director wray at anytime, he holds their resignations from the day they accepted the position and this makes me wonder why President Trump won’t act!

DVader
DVader
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Much more likely Trump will go to the slammer. Likely he should have been there years ago.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DVader

DVader: Research finds that many commenters who gratuitously insult others are sadists and psychopaths.
Rule # 44: If you insult someone, then they will probably insult you back.
How do you respond when someone insults you back?
—-
“Internet Trolls Are Actually Sadists and Psychopaths”
https://time.com/8265/internet-trolls-are-actually-sadists-study-finds/

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DVader

DVader: Research finds that many commenters who gratuitously insult others are sadists and psychopaths.
Rule # 44: If you insult someone, then they will probably insult you back.
How do you respond when someone insults you back?
—-
“Internet Trolls Are Actually Sadists and Psychopaths”
https://time.com/8265/internet-trolls-are-actually-sadists-study-finds/

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Fret not!
Lindsey Graham is stepping up to DEFEND Comey and the FBI!

Lindsey Graham: “the primary source for the Steele dossier was likely a Russian agent”…
Posted on September 24, 2020 by sundance

Former FBI Director James Comey and Lindsey Graham are both promoting the same “FBI duped” justification narrative. Now, is it a surprise the only witness agreeing to appear before Graham’s committee prior to the election is… wait for it…. yep, James Comey.

Imagine that.

What a coincidence.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/24/lindsey-graham-the-primary-source-for-the-steele-dossier-was-likely-a-russian-agent/#more-200316

(It just gets more and more ridiculous!)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/24/lindsey-graham-the-primary-source-for-the-steele-dossier-was-likely-a-russian-agent/#more-200316

Lunch_Money
Lunch_Money
3 years ago

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Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  Lunch_Money

And two weeks before Obama left office, he signed an EO saying the US intel agencies could share data.
If this was so great, why wait until two weeks until before he left office?

Bill
Bill
3 years ago

The once proud ‘Untouchables’ – our own FBI – is dirtier than the KGB.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Agreed. I had an uncle who was in the FBI during WWII and was part of Einstein’s protection detail.

He is not turning over in his grave, he’s spinning.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

I know this is uncharted territory in that it is buck naked treason for which long prison sentences are warranted, death penalty if in wartime.

But I dare to predict that every one of the perps involved in this outrageous effort to topple a duly elected US President will face less legal trouble than I did years ago in a chicken sh*t misdemeanor DWI case in which I was found not guilty.

The situational justice systems in the US are cause for genuine concern.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
3 years ago

So all of this is known and yet what happens to the likes of Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Comey and other co-conspirators? They are laughing at the inability of Trump’s AG to get solid action. Trump failed to clean out Obama’s ‘shit-hole’ DOJ, FBI and CIA and is paying the price.

danE DanE
danE DanE
3 years ago

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WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS OF GRACE PERIOD FOR GENTILES!!! The “END POINT” is ETERNAL HELL for ALL UNBELIEVERS, OR eternal LIFE with YOUR CREATOR the Lord Jesus Christ for ALL BELIEVERS!!! True DEATH is being SEPARATED FROM YOUR CREATOR!!! PREPARE TO MEET THY CREATOR!!! JESUS IS COMING!!! BELIEVE ON HIM!!! ON THE CROSS JESUS DIED AND SHED HIS BLOOD FOR ALL, HE WAS BURIED AND ROSE ON THE THIRD DAY, AND ASCENDED TO HEAVEN!!! PRAY AND TELL HIM YOU BELIEVE THIS!!! SEE bethelchurchmo.com, or Gene Kim, or Robert Breaker both on youtube, MORE INFORMATION on how TO AVOID HELL!

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
3 years ago

We can’t have a “peaceful transfer of power” until this conspiracy and coup attempt is uncovered and the people responsible brought to the courts and made accountable. They violated the total foundation of democracy and elections, the tenant of government by the consent of the governed, through treachery of the first degree.
And FBI agents thought they could buy insurance to protect themselves from the consequences of being found out.
This is prima facie evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong.
No defense that they thought the information they were presenting to the court for a surveillance warrant was true, this is out and out fraud by the FBI and DOJ.

DVader
DVader
3 years ago

For a start, the claim that the Steele Dossier started the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE investigation is a lie–the investigation started a couple of months before the Steele Dossier came out.
Evidently the 2009 FBI CI investigation of the source in question didn’t find anything–Trump/Barr would have leaked it if it had. If Graham is hyperventilating about the FBI not passing on info about a several year old investigation that that didn’t find anything he’s being as big an idiot as he was in the Sally Yates testimony before the Judiciary Committee.
So Durham is taking over parts of the Huber Clinton Foundation investigation that evidently hasn’t found anything? I guess Huber is too honest for Trump/Barr.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  DVader

Have a hard time keeping up, eh?

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