If dossier claims were still unverified when Comey testified to Congress in mid 2017, then those claims could not have been verified when the Obama Justice Department and FBI submitted it to the FISC as a "VERIFIED APPLICATION" in October 2016.
Reid's August 27 letter, apparently referring to the memos Steele was compiling into a dossier, highlights purported meetings between a "Trump advisor" and "High-ranking sanctioned individuals" in Moscow in July - an obvious allusion to the dossier's claim that Carter Page met with Putin associates Igor Sechin and Igor Divyekin.
Through an unidentified "Former CIA official", he claims it was Comey who tried to force the dossier claims into the ICA. According to this account, Brennan, along with Obama's national intelligence director, James Clapper, heroically refused Comey's plea because the dossier had not been corroborated.
Third, it looks like the extremely abbreviated dossier briefing was little more than a pretext to elevate the dossier into a story the media would report.
Even if former director Comey is right that it was Brennan, not he, who was trying to slide the dossier into the ICA, Comey's FBI still used it in the FISC. Plus, Comey himself did agree to brief Trump on it, though in a very incomplete way - alerting the president-elect to the lurid story about prostitutes in a Moscow hotel, but studiously omitting the tiny detail about how the FBI had used the "Salacious and unverified" dossier in the FISC to contend that Trump's campaign was in a conspiracy with Russia to undermine the election.
In the "VERIFIED APPLICATION" that the Obama Justice Department and the FBI submitted, the FISC was led to believe Steele was reliable and that there was no known "Derogatory information pertaining to" him - no mention was made of the known errors in his dossier reporting.
The first VERIFIED APPLICATION included a laborious footnote vaguely "Speculating" that Steele "Likely" had a political motivation to discredit Trump's campaign; the FBI and Justice Department concealed from the court that, far from speculation, they had certain knowledge - from Steele himself - that he was passionately opposed to Trump's election, and they further failed to disclose that the dossier allegations had been sponsored by the campaign of the opposition candidate.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/the-steele-dossier-and-the-verified-application-that-wasnt/
Reid's August 27 letter, apparently referring to the memos Steele was compiling into a dossier, highlights purported meetings between a "Trump advisor" and "High-ranking sanctioned individuals" in Moscow in July - an obvious allusion to the dossier's claim that Carter Page met with Putin associates Igor Sechin and Igor Divyekin.
Through an unidentified "Former CIA official", he claims it was Comey who tried to force the dossier claims into the ICA. According to this account, Brennan, along with Obama's national intelligence director, James Clapper, heroically refused Comey's plea because the dossier had not been corroborated.
Third, it looks like the extremely abbreviated dossier briefing was little more than a pretext to elevate the dossier into a story the media would report.
Even if former director Comey is right that it was Brennan, not he, who was trying to slide the dossier into the ICA, Comey's FBI still used it in the FISC. Plus, Comey himself did agree to brief Trump on it, though in a very incomplete way - alerting the president-elect to the lurid story about prostitutes in a Moscow hotel, but studiously omitting the tiny detail about how the FBI had used the "Salacious and unverified" dossier in the FISC to contend that Trump's campaign was in a conspiracy with Russia to undermine the election.
In the "VERIFIED APPLICATION" that the Obama Justice Department and the FBI submitted, the FISC was led to believe Steele was reliable and that there was no known "Derogatory information pertaining to" him - no mention was made of the known errors in his dossier reporting.
The first VERIFIED APPLICATION included a laborious footnote vaguely "Speculating" that Steele "Likely" had a political motivation to discredit Trump's campaign; the FBI and Justice Department concealed from the court that, far from speculation, they had certain knowledge - from Steele himself - that he was passionately opposed to Trump's election, and they further failed to disclose that the dossier allegations had been sponsored by the campaign of the opposition candidate.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/the-steele-dossier-and-the-verified-application-that-wasnt/
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