Based on recently
declassified footnotes
from Department of
Justice Inspector General
Michael Horowitz’s
December 2019 FBI report:
Senior Obama officials,
including members of the
FBI’s Crossfire
Hurricane team,
knew the dossier compiled
by a former British spy
during during 2016 was
Russian disinformation.
Footnotes revealed
a FBI request to
validate information
collected by British spy
Christopher Steele,
as far back as 2015.
Director of
National Intelligence
Richard Grenell’s office
recently declassified the
footnotes, after consulting
with DOJ Attorney General
William Barr.
Inspector General
Michael Horowitz
and his team investigated
corruption at the FBI.
Russian Intelligence Services
sourced information being fed
to Christopher Steele that was
designed to hurt Trump.
The footnotes also revealed
the Russians were hopeful
of a Hillary Clinton presidency.
The complete four pages
of the still partially redacted
footnotes paint show what
former FBI Director
James Comey,
former DNI
James Clapper and
former CIA Director
John Brennan
actually knew.
They all knew Steele
was hired by the
private research firm
Fusion GPS, and paid
for his work through the
Hillary Clinton campaign
and Democratic National
Committee.
The FBI also paid
for Steele’s work
before ending its
confidential source
relationship with him,
but then used
Obama DOJ official
Bruce Ohr to
continue obtaining
information from
the former spy
( Ohr's wife worked
for Fusion GPS ).
“During his time
as an FBI CHS, S
teele received a total
of $95,000 from the FBI,”
the footnote states.
“We reviewed
the FBI paperwork
for those payments,
each of which required
Steele’s Signed
acknowledgement.
On each document,
of which there were eight,
was the caption ‘CHS payment’
and ‘CHS Payment Name.’
A signature page was missing
for one of the payments.”
Footnote 350
A USIC report
dated February 27, 2017,
contained information about
an individual with reported
connections to Trump and Russia
who claimed that the public
reporting about the details
of Trump’s sexual activities
in Moscow during a trip in 2013
were false, and that they were
the product of RIS
(Russian Intelligence Services)
infiltrate[ing] a source
into the network’ of a
[redacted] who compiled
a dossier of that individual
on Trump’s activities.
