Beth Baumann Feb 15, 2021
Newly-declassified documents show then-FBI Director James Comey purposefully lied about the Steele Dossier. He wrote an email to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper saying the dossier couldn't be "sufficiently corroborate[d]." Despite the lack of corroboration, Comey still signed the FISA warrant that resulted in the surveillance of Carter Page.
Below is Comey's Jan. 12, 2017 email (emphasis mine):..............At this point in time, Operation Crossfire Hurricane – the FBI's
investigation into Trump campaign officials during the 2016 election and
well after the Trump administration took hold in January 2017 – was
already teetering. The CIA informed Comey and the FBI that Carter Page
wasn't a Russian spy. He was actually helping the CIA. Despite the CIA's information and warnings about Steele's network
potentially being compromised by Russian disinformation, the FBI went
forward with their probe. This was even after the FBI was told Hillary
Clinton's campaign used the Steele Dossier to distract from her email
scandal. Again, they pressed on with their probe. .............To Read More...
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