Something Never Trumpers, brainwashed Lefties, overtly lying
Lefties and just simple apolitical Americans who get most of news from local
networks that are subsidiaries of MSM networks all should know. The FBI pushed
the Steele Dossier (or whatever name you choose) as a legitimate source to take
down President Trump EVEN THOUGH the FBI discredited Christopher Steele as a
legitimate “Confidential Human Source”.
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Judicial Watch: FBI Records Show Dossier Author Deemed
‘Not Suitable For Use’ as Source, Show Several FBI Payments in 2016
Documents Reveal Steele Was Admonished in February,
2016
Judicial Watch PRESS ROOM
Email Date: August
4, 2018
JW Website Date: AUGUST
03, 2018
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced
today the FBI turned over 70 pages of heavily redacted records about
Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and
Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous Dossier
targeting President Trump during last year’s presidential campaign. The
documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS)
after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The
documents show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he
was admonished for unknown reasons in February, 2016. The documents were
turned over in response to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for
records of communications and payments between the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele
and his private firm, Orbis Business Intelligence (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.
1:17-cv-00916)).
The documents include a “source closing communication” that states that Steele (referred to as “CHS” or Confidential Human Source) “is being closed” because:
The documents include a “source closing communication” that states that Steele (referred to as “CHS” or Confidential Human Source) “is being closed” because:
CHS confirmed to an outside third
party that CHS has a confidential relationship with the FBI. CHS was used as a
source for an online article. In the article, CHS revealed CHS’ relationship
with the FBI as well as information that CHS obtained and provided to FBI. On
November 1, 2016, CHS confirmed all of this to the handling agent. At that
time, handling agent advised CHS that the nature of the relationship between
the FBI and CHS would change completely and that it was unlikely that the FBI
would continue a relationship with the CHS. Additionally, handling agent
advised that CHS was not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on
behalf of the FBI.
The documents also show that Steele was paid repeatedly by
the FBI and was “admonished” for some unknown misconduct in February,
2016. The documents include:
1. Fifteen (15) FD-1023, Source Reports.
2. Thirteen (13) FD-209a, Contact Reports.
3. Eleven (11) FD-794b, Payment Requests. (It appears Steele
was paid money eleven of the thirteen times he met with the FBI and gave them
information.)
4. An Electronic Communication (EC) documenting that on February 2,
2016, Steele was admonished in accordance with the Justice Department
guidelines and the FBI CHS Policy Manual.
The documents were obtained as a result of a lawsuit was
filed after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a March 8,
2017, FOIA request seeking:
·
All records of
communications between any official, employee, or representative of the FBI and
Mr. Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer and the owner of
the private firm Orbis Business Intelligence.
·
All records related to the
proposed, planned, or actual payment of any funds to Mr. Steele and/or Orbis
Business Intelligence.
·
All records produced in
preparation for, during, or pursuant to any meetings or telephonic
conversations between any official, employee, or representative of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher Steele and/or any employee or
representative of Orbis Business Intelligence.
“These new docs show the shady, cash-based relationship
the Obama FBI had with Clinton operative Christopher Steele,” said Judicial
Watch President Tom Fitton. “The anti-Trump Russia ‘investigation’ had
Christopher Steele at its center and his misconduct was no impediment to using
information from his Russia intelligence collaborators to spy on the Trump
team. The corruption and abuse is astonishing.”
Last week, a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit uncovered the FISA warrant documents used to justify spying on Carter Page. The warrants are controversial because the FISA court was never told that the key information justifying the requests came from a “dossier” that was created by Fusion GPS, a paid agent of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. Fusion GPS hired Steele to create the Dossier and Steele is referenced repeatedly as “Source #1” in the warrants. The initial Carter Page warrant was granted just weeks before the 2016 election. Steele and his “minimally corroborated” Clinton-DNC dossier was an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants to spy on Page.
Last week, a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit uncovered the FISA warrant documents used to justify spying on Carter Page. The warrants are controversial because the FISA court was never told that the key information justifying the requests came from a “dossier” that was created by Fusion GPS, a paid agent of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. Fusion GPS hired Steele to create the Dossier and Steele is referenced repeatedly as “Source #1” in the warrants. The initial Carter Page warrant was granted just weeks before the 2016 election. Steele and his “minimally corroborated” Clinton-DNC dossier was an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants to spy on Page.
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Tom Fitton: At Least 11 FBI Payments went to Steele
AUGUST 06, 2018
August 5, 2018- JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “Fox and
Friends” on the Fox News Channel to discuss The FBI released 71 pages of redacted documents tied to the bureau’s relationship
with Christopher Steele.
[Blog Editor: I can’t figure out how to embed the JW video
version watch is about 5-minutes. You’ll have to go to JW link to watch that video.
Fortunately I found a 10-minute version on Youtube, but only 1st
five-minutes are relevant to this post..
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