Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department is investigating the accuracy of information the FBI submitted before the 2016 election about a "Dossier" damaging to Donald Trump to obtain a warrant to surveil a campaign adviser.
Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures," had asked Sessions: "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 [the] Hillary Clinton [campaign] paid for the dossier?".
The partisan dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele is said to have been a significant part of the application to the court, even though the salacious document about Trump's connections to Russia was and is largely unverified.
Republican lawmakers have asserted that law enforcement officials who submitted the application failed to note to the court that the dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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 also alleged that Steele, the opponent of Trump who authored the dossier, misled the FBI by failing to reveal that he met with reporters in September 2016 to discuss his investigation of Trump.
The application did not note that the Isikoff article came from the same source as the dossier.
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/19/sessions-fbis-handling-of-anti-trump-dossier-will-be-investigated/
Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures," had asked Sessions: "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 [the] Hillary Clinton [campaign] paid for the dossier?".
The partisan dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele is said to have been a significant part of the application to the court, even though the salacious document about Trump's connections to Russia was and is largely unverified.
Republican lawmakers have asserted that law enforcement officials who submitted the application failed to note to the court that the dossier was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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 also alleged that Steele, the opponent of Trump who authored the dossier, misled the FBI by failing to reveal that he met with reporters in September 2016 to discuss his investigation of Trump.
The application did not note that the Isikoff article came from the same source as the dossier.
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/19/sessions-fbis-handling-of-anti-trump-dossier-will-be-investigated/
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