The Briefing Room

General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 10, 2020, 01:34:35 am

Title: Lindsey Graham Releases Document Showing FBI Misled the Senate on Steele Dossier
Post by: mystery-ak on August 10, 2020, 01:34:35 am
Kristina Wong 9 Aug 2020

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released a declassified document on Sunday that showed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) misled the Senate Intelligence Committee on the reliability of the Steele dossier when the FBI briefed the committee in 2018.

The FBI used the eight-page document to brief the Senate Intelligence Committee in February 2018 as part of the committee’s investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election and whether there was collusion with the Trump campaign.

The FBI briefing document fails to mention that a primary sub-source for Fusion GPS’s dossier, authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, had raised significant questions about the dossier’s reliability during an interview with the FBI in 2017. Instead, the FBI briefing, delivered a year later, appear to vouch for the dossier’s credibility.

For example, the FBI briefing document said the primary sub-source “did not cite any significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could identify it.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/09/graham-releases-document-showing-fbi-misled-senate-steele-dossier/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/09/graham-releases-document-showing-fbi-misled-senate-steele-dossier/)