Since we know the person who is supposed to have been behind the Carter Page FISA application, it seems reasonable to inquire: just how reliable was Christopher Steele? After all, if verification of the dossier was still "In its infancy" - i.e., it basically hadn't been verified at all - at the time the FISA application was submitted to the FISC, according to the FBI's top counter-intelligence official, Bill Priestap, then it follows that the reliability of the material presented in the application would stand or fall with the reliability of the source.
A judge might assume from the title "Confidential human source" that Steele was "Reporting" regarding matters concerning which he has personal knowledge, and the fact that his "Reporting" was used in "Criminal proceedings" would also strengthen the tendency of a judge to view the "Reporting" as probably reliable.
We see nothing here about how Steele's "Reporting" was "Corroborated" - was it corroborated by other sources, by subsequent investigation by the FBI? We're not told, although such additional information is often added and could reasonably be requested by a judge.
The FA hired Steele's company to investigate FIFA. In advance of the FBI launching its 2015 FIFA corruption case, members of the FBI's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force met with Steele in London to discuss allegations of possible corruption in FIFA. Steele's research indicated that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin had rigged the bidding of the 2018 World Cups by employing bribery.
How good was that "Best source"? Recall: in 2010, it was seventeen years since Steele had been in Russia.
The famous "Dossier" on Donald Trump - supposedly compiled by British ex-MI6 spook Christopher Steele, acting as a contractor for Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS, themselves contractors for the Hillary Clinton campaign - "Salacious and unverified" though it might have been, was "Crucial" to the FBI's efforts to obtain the original FISA on Carter Page as well as the three renewals of that FISA. That the "Dossier" was "Salacious and unverified" we have on the authority of disgraced former FBI director James Comey, and that it was "Crucial" to the Carter Page FISA is attested by the equally disgraced former deputy director and later acting director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe.
Rather, it presents material from the "Dossier" as reporting provided by Christopher Steele as "Source #1." The concealing of source identities is usual in FISA applications.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/just_how_reliable_was_christopher_steele.html
A judge might assume from the title "Confidential human source" that Steele was "Reporting" regarding matters concerning which he has personal knowledge, and the fact that his "Reporting" was used in "Criminal proceedings" would also strengthen the tendency of a judge to view the "Reporting" as probably reliable.
We see nothing here about how Steele's "Reporting" was "Corroborated" - was it corroborated by other sources, by subsequent investigation by the FBI? We're not told, although such additional information is often added and could reasonably be requested by a judge.
The FA hired Steele's company to investigate FIFA. In advance of the FBI launching its 2015 FIFA corruption case, members of the FBI's Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force met with Steele in London to discuss allegations of possible corruption in FIFA. Steele's research indicated that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin had rigged the bidding of the 2018 World Cups by employing bribery.
How good was that "Best source"? Recall: in 2010, it was seventeen years since Steele had been in Russia.
The famous "Dossier" on Donald Trump - supposedly compiled by British ex-MI6 spook Christopher Steele, acting as a contractor for Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS, themselves contractors for the Hillary Clinton campaign - "Salacious and unverified" though it might have been, was "Crucial" to the FBI's efforts to obtain the original FISA on Carter Page as well as the three renewals of that FISA. That the "Dossier" was "Salacious and unverified" we have on the authority of disgraced former FBI director James Comey, and that it was "Crucial" to the Carter Page FISA is attested by the equally disgraced former deputy director and later acting director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe.
Rather, it presents material from the "Dossier" as reporting provided by Christopher Steele as "Source #1." The concealing of source identities is usual in FISA applications.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/just_how_reliable_was_christopher_steele.html
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