Judicial Watch fought for more than a year to force the government to comply with its Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the work the former British spy-and author of the salacious and unverified Steele dossier-did for the FBI since January 1, 2016.
If the redacted February 2, 2016, admonishment and withheld AGG admonishments indicate the FBI intended to use Steele to spy on the Trump campaign, that would be significant because the FBI has long maintained that it did not launch that probe-christened Crossfire Hurricane-until July 2017.
The heavily redacted documents also leave unanswered the question of whether the FBI paid Steele for being a CHS in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Although the media reported that sources with "Knowledge of the arrangement" claim the FBI never paid Steele for his work on the dossier, but may have reimbursed him for expenses, the FBI has yet to confirm the accuracy of those reports.
Whether the FBI compensated Steele or merely paid his expenses is a distinction without a difference, especially if Steele had already received reimbursement for the same expenses under his contract with Fusion GPS. The Obama administration should never have paid Steele to obtain dirt on Trump.
The form included these additional details: "CHS confirmed to an outside third party that CHS has a confidential relationship with the FBI. CHS was used as a source for an online article. In the article, CHS revealed CHS' relationship with the FBI as well as information that CHS obtained and provided to FBI. On November 1, 2016, CHS confirmed all of this to the handling agent. At that time, handling agent advised CHS that the nature of the relationship between the FBI and CHS would change completely and that it was unlikely that the FBI would continue a relationship with the CHS.".
Ohr spoke with the FBI a dozen or so times, beginning on November 22, 2016 and ending in late May 2017, and, as Felten reported, those meetings "Were formal FBI interviews, each subsequently written up in a '302' summary memo." So, it appears that Steele was not the only one to ignore the FBI's November 2, 2016, directive that he "Was not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI." FBI officials did as well.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/06/4-things-learned-fbis-mostly-redacted-steele-documents/
If the redacted February 2, 2016, admonishment and withheld AGG admonishments indicate the FBI intended to use Steele to spy on the Trump campaign, that would be significant because the FBI has long maintained that it did not launch that probe-christened Crossfire Hurricane-until July 2017.
The heavily redacted documents also leave unanswered the question of whether the FBI paid Steele for being a CHS in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Although the media reported that sources with "Knowledge of the arrangement" claim the FBI never paid Steele for his work on the dossier, but may have reimbursed him for expenses, the FBI has yet to confirm the accuracy of those reports.
Whether the FBI compensated Steele or merely paid his expenses is a distinction without a difference, especially if Steele had already received reimbursement for the same expenses under his contract with Fusion GPS. The Obama administration should never have paid Steele to obtain dirt on Trump.
The form included these additional details: "CHS confirmed to an outside third party that CHS has a confidential relationship with the FBI. CHS was used as a source for an online article. In the article, CHS revealed CHS' relationship with the FBI as well as information that CHS obtained and provided to FBI. On November 1, 2016, CHS confirmed all of this to the handling agent. At that time, handling agent advised CHS that the nature of the relationship between the FBI and CHS would change completely and that it was unlikely that the FBI would continue a relationship with the CHS.".
Ohr spoke with the FBI a dozen or so times, beginning on November 22, 2016 and ending in late May 2017, and, as Felten reported, those meetings "Were formal FBI interviews, each subsequently written up in a '302' summary memo." So, it appears that Steele was not the only one to ignore the FBI's November 2, 2016, directive that he "Was not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI." FBI officials did as well.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/06/4-things-learned-fbis-mostly-redacted-steele-documents/
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