There are few ways to really describe the Steele dossier and the ramifications of the Crossfire Hurricane team using it to target incoming President Donald Trump.
U.S. Attorney John Durham discovered that the primary sub-source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele's discredited dossier was investigated by the FBI as a possible "Threat to national security," but the bureau never told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and used the dossier anyway.
He made public a letter from Attorney General William Barr along with an unclassified FBI overview, created at Barr's behest, of the FBI's 2009-2011 counterintelligence investigation into Steele's main source, U.S.-based Russian lawyer Igor Danchenko, who the bureau suspected of being a Russian agent, according to a newly declassified footnote from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into ties between President Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.
In the release, we see that as far back as 2005, the primary sub-source for the Steele dossier was suspected of being a Russian agent.
Since the investigations by the Crossfire Hurricane team became public, every Democrat, media figure, and anti-Trump personality threw out every allegation they could get their hands on, all of which stemmed from the implications of the Steele dossier - that Trump himself was being used by Russia and that the foreign power was trying to undermine our national security for their own purposes through him.
Without the initial allegations that Russia was behind Trump's campaign/victory/agenda, none of the follow-up allegations and whistleblower complaints would have been filed, and the media would not have latched on to every single one of them and given them wall-to-wall coverage.
At worst, it is a Russian disinformation campaign that has been successful for four years, continuing to sew chaos in American politics and media.
https://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2020/09/25/trump-russia-disinformation/
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