Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Sunday that the Department of Justice is investigating whether the FBI submitted accurate information about the infamous Steele dossier in order to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"Are you, sir, investigating the fact that the FBI used the dossier to get a wiretap against Trump associates and they did not tell the FISA court that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid for the dossier?" Maria Bartiromo, the host of Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," asked Sessions.
The dossier is said to have been a significant part of the application, even though the salacious document was and remains largely unverified.
Republican lawmakers have asserted that the law enforcement officials who submitted the application failed to note that the Clinton campaign and DNC funded the dossier.
The application does note that the dossier was put together by a "U.S. person" with political motivations, but Republicans have argued that the application should have been more specific.
Republicans have also alleged that the author of the dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele, misled the FBI by failing to reveal that he met with reporters in Sept. 2016 to discuss his investigation of Trump.
The application failed to note that the Isikoff article came from the same source as the dossier.
"Are you, sir, investigating the fact that the FBI used the dossier to get a wiretap against Trump associates and they did not tell the FISA court that the Democrats and Hillary Clinton paid for the dossier?" Maria Bartiromo, the host of Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," asked Sessions.
The dossier is said to have been a significant part of the application, even though the salacious document was and remains largely unverified.
Republican lawmakers have asserted that the law enforcement officials who submitted the application failed to note that the Clinton campaign and DNC funded the dossier.
The application does note that the dossier was put together by a "U.S. person" with political motivations, but Republicans have argued that the application should have been more specific.
Republicans have also alleged that the author of the dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele, misled the FBI by failing to reveal that he met with reporters in Sept. 2016 to discuss his investigation of Trump.
The application failed to note that the Isikoff article came from the same source as the dossier.
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