Investigative journalist Aaron Klein raises the possibility that James Comey lied to the FISA court about Christopher Steele’s knowledge that Hillary Clinton and the DNC funded the Steele Dossier. An examination of FISA application statements released in the Democrats’ rebuttal memo suggests that the FBI misled the court about what Steele knew.
A new article in The New Yorker reveals that Steele was aware that the DNC funded his report. Yet the original FISA application to spy on Carter Page stated that Fusion GPS “never advised Source #1 (Steele) as to the motivation behind the research.” Comey signed this. Explain that.
Subsequent renewals of the FISA application signed by Comey and others repeated the claim that Steele did not know that the Clinton campaign ordered the report.
The FBI sheepishly advised the court in footnotes that the Steele Dossier may have been funded by political operatives. Remember that the scoundrels in the media and the Democrat Party originally promoted the lie that the GOP funded the dossier. A judge reading the vague footnote could be forgiven for thinking that the referenced political operatives were not Democrats, but Republican Trump opponents. How convenient!
The Steele Dossier was not funded by Republicans. The Democrats tried to tie an unrelated project of the Washington Free Beacon to the dossier, but the Free Beacon put that claim to rest:
All of the work that Fusion GPS provided to the Free Beacon was based on public sources, and none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier. The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele. Nor did we have any knowledge of the relationship between Fusion GPS and the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and the Clinton campaign.
Listen to Aaron Klein’s explanation of this latest abomination here.