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FBI failed to review Steele's ties to Russians, warned some of dossier was Moscow disinformation

2020-04-11

[Just The News] Declassified footnote lays out intelligence community concerns about Steele's ties to Russia and disinformation

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.
Really no sense looking for that which you have no desire to find.
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."

Posted by:Frank G

#11 Always happy to help, Raj!

Posted by: DarthVader 2020-04-11 14:06

#10 Supervisor Special Agent FBI pay $164,028 per GlassDoor. Corrupt politician to over paid corrupt bureaucrat, "Don't forget who got you that kind of income."

Posted by: Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-04-11 13:21

#9 "Too good to check" is a journalistic standard, not a law enforcement standard.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-11 12:17

#8 Just in case anyone forgot, Steele's claims we're so f---ing obviously false, even a child with rudimentary knowledge of Russia and Russians could have seen that the man pulled them out of thin air.

Start with the fact that Trump like any westerner has absolutely zero chance of scoring a beneficial real estate deal in the heart of center-city, inner ring Moscow. Add the fact that Trump the germophobic hotel owner could not possibly even imagine soiling the presidential suite of someone else's hotel-- let alone doing so as an idiotic means of spiting an American guest at that hotel.

Who the f--- could come up with such a retarded scenario?

Answer: a pair of drunks at a bar, when one drunk is a mendacious and greedy, incompetent hack on the make and the other is a Russian agent plying the former with Krystal.

Posted by: Lex 2020-04-11 11:11

#7 My shocked face is in storage
I smelled a rat from the beginning and knew that some of the last minute order sent out by Rice pointed the way to this being a palace coup

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2020-04-11 11:06

#6 Great - the fucking ghost of Sarah Hoyt speaks - way to kill my morning, DV.

Posted by: Raj 2020-04-11 11:02

#5 My shocked face is still in the shop.

Posted by: DarthVader 2020-04-11 09:02

Image result for obama and brennan memes

Other inputs to the Russian B.S....

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-11 08:26

#3 Russian involvement? I know that claim has been made repeatedly by our media but I haven't seen any evidence yet. This was largely a home-grown effort by the left/Deepstate (read as previous administration) with some input from foreign sources to keep Trump from getting elected and then take him down after he was elected.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-11 08:17

#2 You can never declare something a failure until you know what the real goal was.

I wouldn't trust any claims from these what would you call thems at all now.

Posted by: AlanC 2020-04-11 07:47

#1 Nothing says 'failure' like Waco, TX Feb 28, 1993 – Apr 19, 1993. Before or after, an organization very difficult to handle from the clean end.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-11 04:07

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