FBI Papers Show Payments to Trump Dossier Author Steele

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By Sandy Fitzgerald    |   Friday, 03 August 2018 09:49 PM



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.

Then, on Nov. 1, 2016, just a week before the presidential election, the FBI told Steele he should not "obtain any evidence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI," as it was not likely to keep working with him.

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[kidd]

This is in direct contrast with what we were told, starting a year ago, that the FBI did NOT pay Steele.

[Sanguine]

This is in direct contrast with what we were told, starting a year ago, that the FBI did NOT pay Steele.

There's a lot of that "in direct contrast with what we were told" going around.

[Bigun]

There's a lot of that "in direct contrast with what we were told" going around.

FAR too much in fact!