This follow up links to the PDF that partially unredacts IG
Horowitz’s foot notes that expose FBI deception in its presentation to a FISA
Court to get secret warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. The follow is
entitled, “FBI failed to review Steele's ties to Russians, warned some of
dossier was Moscow disinformation”.
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FBI failed to review Steele's ties to Russians, warned
some of dossier was Moscow disinformation
Declassified footnote lays out intelligence community
concerns about Steele's ties to Russia and disinformation
FBI to face new scrutiny
with declassified Russia case notes. Official FBI Photo
By John
Solomon
Last Updated: April 10, 2020 - 6:28pm
Key FBI
officials failed to review an intelligence file identifying Christopher
Steele's ties to Russian oligarchs and were later advised some of the
information he provided agents in his dossier appeared to be misinformation
planted by Russian intelligence, according to declassified information made
public Friday.
The explosive revelations were contained in footnotes that
had been originally redacted from Justice Department inspector general Michael
Horowitz's December report on FBI failures in the Russia case. The
information was provided to two Senate committees in recent days.
One of the newly declassified footnotes highlights a glaring
misstep early in the Russia case, when key officials failed to review the
intelligence control file for Steele, a former MI6 agent who approached the FBI
with unverified allegations about Trump after he was hired to do opposition
research by the firm working for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.
Checking such files is a basic procedure in a
counterintelligence probe when an informant is involved, officials told Just
the News.
The footnote states that an FBI intelligence analyst and a
supervisory special agent working on the Crossfire Hurricane probe admitted
they "did not recall reviewing information in Steele's Delta file
documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multiple
Russian oligarchs in 2015."
"In addition to the information in Steele's Delta file
documenting Steele's frequent contacts with representatives for multiple
Russian oligarch, we identified reporting the Crossfire Hurricane team received
[redacted] indicating the potential for Russia disinformation influencing
Steele's election reporting," a second footnote revealed.
Specifically, that footnote added: "A [redacted]
2017 report relayed information from [redacted] outlining an inaccuracy in a
limited subset of Steele's reporting about the activities of (former Trump
lawyer) Michael Cohen. The [redacted] stated that it did not have high
confidence in this subset of Steele's reporting and assessed that the
referenced subset was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to
denigrate U.S. foreign relations."
[Partially un]RedactedHorowitzFootnotes.pdf
That same footnote reveals a separate report to the FBI,
dated 2017, “contained information … that the public reporting about the
details of Trump’s [REDACTED] activities in Moscow during a trip in 2013 were
false, and that they were the product of RIS ‘infiltra[ing] a source
into the network’ of a [REDACTED] who compiled a dossier of information on
Trump’s activities.” RIS is an acronym for Russian intelligence services.
The new information provides the most explosive information
to date that FBI officials had serious reason to doubt Steele's dossier when it
first arrived and during the time it was used to support FISA surveillance
warrants targeting the Trump campaign in late 2016 and 2017.
Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who
worked to get the footnotes declassified, said Friday the information withheld
from the American public for two years confirms the FBI collusion probe that
dogged the Trump administration was flawed from start to finish and covered up
by a false narrative driven by news media leaks.
“For years, the public was fed a healthy diet of leaks,
innuendo and false information to imply that President Trump and his campaign
were part of a Russian conspiracy to spread disinformation," the
senators said. "The FBI’s blind pursuit of the investigation, despite
exculpatory and contradictory information, only legitimized the narrative.
"The mounting evidence undercutting this narrative
should have stopped the investigation early in its tracks. Instead, it took
several years and millions in taxpayer dollars to conclude that the allegations
were baseless."
You can read the newly declassified documents here.
[Partially un]RedactedHorowitzFootnotes.pdf
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