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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. Muellers report contained over a dozen passing references to the documents claims but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out.
Now the dossier financed by Hillary Clintons 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 Departments 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. Steeles 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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wiggs
(7,814 posts)https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/politics/mccabe-republicans-trump-dossier/index.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/02/02/rep_swalwell_nunes_memo_misquotes_mccabes_statement_about_steele_dossierfisa_warrant.html
Sounds like you're repeating something from Nunes's memo?
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(4,533 posts)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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