FBI Papers Show Payments to Trump Dossier Author Christopher Steele – IOTW Report

FBI Papers Show Payments to Trump Dossier Author Christopher Steele

Newsmax: The FBI Friday released 71 heavily redacted pages describing that it had corresponded with former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and revealed the agency was paying him to gather intelligence.

The records show Steele was being paid for work as a “confidential human source” for an unspecified amount of time, and that he’d told the FBI he had informed a third party he was acting as an agency source, reports NBC News.

In addition, the papers show the FBI had determined Steele was the source for an online news article.

Even though the FBI has labeled the released file as “Records between FBI and Christopher Steele Part 01 of 01,” the former spy’s name itself doesn’t appear in the documents, notes the Washington Examiner.

The redactions make it impossible to tell when the FBI started paying Steele, NBC News reported. However, in February 2016, the agency “admonished” Steele. A federal law enforcement official explained that this simply means he was briefed on his duties of being an informant, not being punished or criticized.  more here

3 Comments on FBI Papers Show Payments to Trump Dossier Author Christopher Steele

  1. Has to be something embarrassingly true, released on a “Friday”. That’s a dead give away along with “heavily redacted” which means its not PG13. I need to get one of those water-proof black redaction pens for my income tax return before the government uses them all up, and there’s a shortage.

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