New heavily redacted documents released by the FBI to Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch indicate that the author of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s opposition research against President Donald Trump, Christopher Steele, worked for the FBI. When former FBI Director James Comey testified before June 8, 2017, one day before he was fired by Trump, he refused to say whether or not former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele worked for the FBI. Democrats and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s worst nightmare involves proof that the FBI began secretly wiretapping Trump months before the November 8, 2016 presidential election. Democrats and their friends in the press want no part of the very real possibility that former President Barack Obama asked former Department of Justice [DOJ] chief Loretta Lynch to ask Comey to investigate Trump for alleged ties to the Kremlin.
What’s so extraordinary about the recently released documents is that it shows that Steele, who constructed Hillary’s opposition research against Trump AKA “the dossier,” worked as a Confidential Human Source [CHS] for the FBI before working for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm paid by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary campaign. When the FBI determined that Steele was the source of an online article, they terminated his consulting relationship with the FBI. On Nov. 1, 2016, only one week before the presidential election, the FBI terminated its consulting relationship with Steele. As early as February 2016, the FBI “admonished” Steele, believing he was out-of-compliance with FBI policy for a CHS. While the heavily redacted documents don’t show when the FBI started paying Steele, it clear that Steel was out-of-compliance with FBI policy.
Redacted documents don’t show when Steele was first placed on the FBI payroll to investigate Trump, only well before the Nov. 8, 2016 presidential election. Steele once worked for the FBI in its probe of international soccer. When Comey began paying Steele is anyone’s guess. Once Trump won the GOP nomination May 26, 2016, it’s possible that Hillary’s campaign made the request to Obama to use the national security apparatus to wiretap Trump and his campaign associates. When Trump said that Obama “tapped his wires” May 4, 2017, the press went wild, demanding proof. Funny how the press demands no proof of whether or not Obama ordered Trump wiretapped to help Hillary’s chances in November 2016. What’s known today is that the FBI reached a deal with Steele in October 2016 for “the dossier,” in addition to taking cash from Fusion GPS to complete the disparaging Trump dossier.
No Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees want to hear the truth that Trump was investigated not because certain members of his campaign staff had known ties to the Kremlin but because it helped Hillary win the election. Knowing that Steele worked for the FBI months before the 2016 election raises real concerns about the extent to which it’s suppressing Comey’s role in wiretapping the Trump campaign. Comey passed over Steele’s involvement in the dossier as inconsequential, never admitting he was actually on the FBI’s payroll. House Intelligence Committee Co-Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) insists that there’s plenty of evidence on Trump collusion in the 2016. Schiff won’t admit that the FBI had zero justification for wiretapping Trump or his campaign associates. No one in the Trump campaign has been charged with ties to the Kremlin.
Schiff makes a big deal over the FBI’s used of “the dossier” and other relevant sources of intel to justify getting warrants at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act {FISA] court of wiretap former Trump foreign policy aid Carrter Page. But if Page were guilty, as Schiff suggests, why was he not charged with anything? It’s because the charges against Page were bogus, looking to do anything possible to discredit the Trump campaign. Washington Post reported that the FBI reached a deal with Steele to continue investigating Trump in Oct. 2016, suggesting “the dossier’s” allegations of Trump ties to the Kremlin were credible. It’s still unclear whether or not Steele was fired by the FBI or he quit on his own, to work exclusively with Glen Simpson’s Fusion GPS opposition research firm. What’s most ironic, with Trump’s alleged Russian collusion, that Steele sought information against Trump from Kremlin sources.
Working for the FBI and Fusion GPS, Steele pulled all his Russian resources to get all the dirt on Trump, alleging he worked with the Kremlin to get elected president. With new declassified docs showing that Steele was on the FBI’s payroll as a Confidential Human Source investigating Trump, it’s now clear that former President Barack Obama ordered his former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch to ask Comey to investigate Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign. While Democrats and the press want the public to believe the FBI had good reason to investigate Trump and his campaign associations, it looks more like Hillary needed all the help she could get to guarantee victory Nov. 8, 2016. When that all backfired, Democrats and the press continued the bogus Russian narrative against Trump to cover-up Obama’s devious way to help Hillary win the 2016 election.
