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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Apr 19, 2019, 08:58 PM Apr 2019

Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier

WASHINGTON — The 35-page dossier, spiced up with tales of prostitutes and spies, sketched out a hair-raising story more than two years ago. Russian intelligence had used bribery and blackmail to try to turn Donald J. Trump into a source and ally, it said, and the Kremlin was running some Trump campaign aides practically as agents.

But the release on Thursday of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, underscored what had grown clearer for months — that while many Trump aides had welcomed contacts with the Russians, some of the most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove. Mr. Mueller’s report contained over a dozen passing references to the document’s claims but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out.

Now the dossier — financed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and compiled by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele — is likely to face new, possibly harsh scrutiny from multiple inquiries.

Republicans in Congress have vowed to investigate. The Justice Department’s inspector general is considering whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly relied on the dossier in applying to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a warrant to eavesdrop on Carter Page, a Trump adviser. The inspector general wants to know what the F.B.I. learned about Mr. Steele’s sources and whether it disclosed any doubts about their veracity to the court.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-report-likely-to-renew-scrutiny-of-steele-dossier/ar-BBW6Xlc?li=BBnbcA1

They do and that shit's going to blow up in their faces. Everyone know the dossier was started by Republican opposition to Trump.

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Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2019 OP
The report validates much of the dossier. manor321 Apr 2019 #1
Agree. Seth Abramson, who knows more than WP, agrees. nt wiggs Apr 2019 #5
I thought the FISA warrant was BEFORE the dossier. n/t rzemanfl Apr 2019 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author ZillyZap Apr 2019 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author ZillyZap Apr 2019 #3
Your claim appears to be incorrect re McCabe. Please post source. See below wiggs Apr 2019 #6
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The first FISA warrant on Page was in 2013 or 2014 Cicada Apr 2019 #7
Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2019 #10
See you on the other side. Iggo Apr 2019 #8

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Cicada

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7. The first FISA warrant on Page was in 2013 or 2014
Fri Apr 19, 2019, 11:56 PM
Apr 2019

At least one renewal was before the Steele report was written. Maybe the last two warrants required info in Steele report but interest in Page was based on more than Steele.

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