How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests
By Paul Sperry - Real Clear Investigations 12/22/2022
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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.
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…