DC: The FBI on Friday released a two-page document that sheds some light on what former FBI Director James Comey briefed to President-Elect Donald Trump and President Obama regarding the infamous Steele dossier.
The document, first reported by Politico, asserts that Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the dossier, was working “on behalf of private clients” in his investigation of Trump’s possible ties to Russia. His dossier contained “highly politically sensitive information,” according to the summary.
Steele, who is not identified by name in the heavily-redacted document, is also described as collecting information “from a layered network of identified and unidentified subsources, some of which has been corroborated in the past.”
Those characterizations are likely to draw the attention of Republicans, many of whom have accused the FBI of relying too heavily on Steele’s unverified reporting in its investigation of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Steele was ultimately working for the Clinton campaign and DNC, not a private client. And Steele’s use of some “unidentified” sources could raise questions about his collection methods.
A former MI6 officer, Steele was hired in June 2016 to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. His immediate employer was Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm that was working for Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Steele, who is unable to travel to Russia because of his past work there, relied on intermediaries to obtain information about Trump and his advisers. more here
Just WTF is a “subsource”?
If I had to guess, I’d say that if your yard man told you that his cousin, a maid at a hotel, said that something fishy happened in one of the rooms there last week, that the cousin/maid would be the subsource.
And does “layered network of identified and unidentified subsources” means you don’t know the maid’s name?
“infamous Steele dossier.”
This make anybody else retch when they read this phrase? I’m so sick of this shit. All of it. It’s like political discourse herpes. It lasts forever, but there is nothing to be done about it.
@Lowell – Let’s start referring to the damned thing as the
Scurrilous Clinton/DNC Trump-Trashing Libel File
@ Uncle Al:
Stop by, the drinks are on me.
” …. likely to draw the attention of Republicans … “
uh oh! … now we’re really gonna see some serious Congressional committee persons take some serious face time on Fox News & express ‘anger’! … Wow!
… the Republic rejoices …. (eye-roll)