Obama-Era State Department Official Provides More Evidence Of FISA Abuse

1. Notes Kavalec took memorializing her meeting with the former MI6 spy, and reports that Kavalec shared with the FBI details of her confab with Steele, provide more proof that Obama administration officials and career DOJ and FBI employees abused the FISA court process.
2. The FISA application stated that Steele “told the FBI that he/she only provided [the results of his research] to [his] business associate and the FBI.” But in her notes, Kavalec wrote that in “June—reporting started,” and the “NYT and WP have,” indicating both The New York Times and The Washington Post had Steele’s research.
3. The most recent addition came last week when news broke that Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec met with dossier author Christopher Steele on October 11, 2016—two weeks before the DOJ and FBI relied on the Steele dossier to obtain a FISA surveillance order targeting Page.
4. Fourth, and finally, Kavalec’s notes from her meeting with Steele expose the FBI’s failure to conduct even a rudimentary screening of Steele’s supposed intel before relying on it in the FISA application.
5. First, as John Solomon highlighted at The Hill, the FISA application stated the FBI had determined Steele to be “reliable” and was “unaware of any derogatory information pertaining” to their source, while Kavalec's memorandum showed just the opposite—that Steele was not reliable.
6. Second, Kavalec’s meeting notes prove that Steele lied to the FBI and that the FBI, in turn, lied to the FISA court.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/21/obama-era-state-department-official-provides-more-evidence-of-fisa-abuse/