The Contemporary Battle of Good v Evil in Politics

The Contemporary Battle of Good v Evil in Politics

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The Contemporary Battle of Good v Evil in Politics
The Contemporary Battle of Good v Evil in Politics
How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests

How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests

By Paul Sperry - Real Clear Investigations 12/22/2022

Dec 22, 2022
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How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests
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Great article - efd
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
December 20, 2022

The FBI relied more extensively on Christopher Steele’s debunked dossier in their Russiagate investigation than has been revealed, inserting key parts from it into their applications for warrants to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign. 
 
Agents did this without telling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the precise wording was plucked directly from a political rumor sheet paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign or providing judges with any independent corroboration of the explosive allegations. 

Steele dossier/Document Cloud

From the discredited Steele dossier and into sworn FBI statements: View images to compare the original source documents.

Steele dossier/Document Cloud

For years, defenders of the FBI and its Russiagate probe have downplayed the bureau's reliance on the opposition research cooked up by Steele – with its incredible tales of billion-dollar bribes and pee-tapes – insisting it was limited to justifying the sur…

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