House Intel Committee releases unredacted FISA memo

Former British spy Christopher Steele provided false dossier information to the FBI and the FBI pushed the info to a FISA court on behalf of Fusion GPS, memo shows

WASHINGTON (INTELLIHUB) — The U.S, House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the highly controversial Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) memo on Friday, which contains bombshell information suggesting that the entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was fabricated, pushed, and paid for by the opposition during the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election and that the FBI went along with it.

Without further ado, here is the full memo:

A small amount of information pertaining to the surveillance of Carter Page was redacted.

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi falls apart on air after CNN’s Chris Cuomo confronts her about the memo

Big props to Chris Cuomo on this one! — It looks like CNN may be trying to redeem themselves after their two-year-long fake news fiasco

(INTELLIHUB) — Well, I have to admit, although I am not much of a Chris Cuomo fan I have to say he absolutely killed it during Monday night’s broadcast when he confronted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on the memo. In fact, much props to Cuomo for his effort. His persistence may have even bumped CNN’s tarnished reputation back up one notch — or not. LOL.

In the interview, Cuomo sided with the American people for once in his life.

“I have to believe that it’s hard for the American people to have faith that anybody in this city [D.C.] where we are right now is out for the truth and not out for politics,” Cuomo told Pelosi. “I can understand why they [the American people] want it all released […] I can understand why they want it all out because they say ‘you know what we can’t trust you guys — let us read it — let us figure it out — you can redact the names — you can make it safe enough for us to look at’ because they say the same thing about you.”

‘They are talking about this memo like its the Holy Grail of the truth about what was going on during the campaign,’ he explained while the haggard minority leader fidgeted her jaw back and forth like a Tweaker on a hot summer day.

Pelosi looked nervous. So nervous as to which it almost made her look reptilian to some extent. Her makeup was just caked on.

“It’s not even true,” Pelosi pleaded. “They have made up a memo that isn’t even true and they are lying to the American people.”

*ROTFLMFAO*

Does this remind you of anything Nancy — like the Trump-Russia dossier?

Oh, you got a little taste of your own medicine there I see.

Cuomo–1, Pelosi–0

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Trump slams ‘crooked Hillary pile of garbage bogus dossier’

Having taken a shot at The FBI on Christmas Eve Eve…

How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000 for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2017

President Trump took to Twitter early on this Boxing Day with a very direct shot across the bow of all his DC-swamp adversaries…

WOW, @foxandfrlends “Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.” And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2017

As a reminder, we know three things for sure:

(1) The Steele dossier was a Clinton campaign product. If it was used by the FBI and the Obama Justice Department to obtain a FISA warrant, that would mean law-enforcement agencies controlled by a Democratic president fed the FISA court political campaign material produced by the Democratic candidate whom the president had endorsed to succeed him. Partisan claims of egregious scheming with an adversarial foreign power would have been presented to the court with the FBI’s imprimatur, as if they were drawn from refined U.S. intelligence reporting. The objective would have been to spy on the opposition Republican campaign.

(2) In June of this year, former FBI director James Comey testified that the dossier was “salacious and unverified.” While still director, Comey had described the dossier the same way when he briefed President-elect Trump on it in January 2017. If the dossier was still unverified as late as mid 2017, its allegations could not possibly have been verified months earlier, in the late summer or early autumn of 2016, when it appears that the FBI and DOJ used them in an application to the FISA court.

(3) The dossier appears to contain misinformation. Knowing he was a spy-for-hire trusted by Americans, Steele’s Russian-regime sources had reason to believe that misinformation could be passed into the stream of U.S. intelligence and that it would be acted on — and leaked — as if it were true, to America’s detriment. This would sow discord in our political system. If the FBI and DOJ relied on the dossier, it likely means they were played by the Putin regime.

Manifestly, the DOJ and FBI were favorably disposed toward Steele and Fusion GPS. I suspect that these good, productive prior relationships with the dossier’s source led the investigators to be less exacting about corroborating the dossier’s claims.

But that is just the beginning of the bias story.

At a high level, the DOJ and FBI were in the tank for Hillary Clinton. In July 2016, shortly before Steele’s reports started floating in, the FBI and DOJ announced that no charges would be brought against Mrs. Clinton despite damning evidence that she mishandled classified information, destroyed government files, obstructed congressional investigations, and lied to investigators. The irregularities in the Clinton-emails investigation are legion: President Obama making it clear in public statements that he did not want Clinton charged; the FBI, shortly afterwards, drafting an exoneration of Clinton months before the investigation ended and central witnesses, including Clinton herself, were interviewed; investigators failing to use the grand jury to compel the production of key evidence; the DOJ restricting FBI agents in their lines of inquiry and examination of evidence; the granting of immunity to suspects who in any other case would be pressured to plead guilty and cooperate against more-culpable suspects; the distorting of criminal statutes to avoid applying them to Clinton; the sulfurous tarmac meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former President Clinton shortly before Mrs. Clinton was given a peremptory interview — right before then–FBI director Comey announced that she would not be charged.

The blatant preference for Clinton over Trump smacked of politics and self-interest. Deputy FBI director McCabe’s wife had run for the Virginia state legislature as a Democrat, and her (unsuccessful) campaign was lavishly funded by groups tied to Clinton insider Terry McAuliffe. Agent Strzok told FBI lawyer Page that Trump was an “idiot” and that “Hillary should win 100 million to 0.” Page agreed that Trump was “a loathsome human.” A Clinton win would likely mean Lynch — originally raised to prominence when President Bill Clinton appointed her to a coveted U.S. attorney slot — would remain attorney general. Yates would be waiting in the wings.

The prior relationships of trust with the source; the investment in Clinton; the certitude that Clinton would win and deserved to win, signified by the mulish determination that she not be charged in the emails investigation; the sheer contempt for Trump. This concatenation led the FBI and DOJ to believe Steele — to want to believe his melodramatic account of Trump-Russia corruption. For the faithful, it was a story too good to check.

The DOJ and FBI, having dropped a criminal investigation that undeniably established Hillary Clinton’s national-security recklessness, managed simultaneously to convince themselves that Donald Trump was too much of a national-security risk to be president.

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As we previously concluded, while there is a dearth of evidence to date that the Trump campaign colluded in Russia’s cyberespionage attack on the 2016 election, there is abundant evidence that the Obama administration colluded with the Clinton campaign to use the Steele dossier as a vehicle for court-authorized monitoring of the Trump campaign — and to fuel a pre-election media narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies believed Trump was scheming with Russia to lift sanctions if he were elected president. Congress should continue pressing for answers, and President Trump should order the Justice Department and FBI to cooperate rather than — what’s the word? — resist.

Via Zero Hedge

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Clinton, Podesta, others, in senate crosshairs over dossier, given two weeks to respond

GOP Congressional investigators have written six letters to individuals or entities involved or thought to be involved in the funding, creation or distribution of the salacious and unverified “Trump-Russia dossier” believed to have been inappropriately used by the FBI, DOJ and Obama Administration in an effort to undermine Donald Trump as both a candidate and President of the United States.

Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SCS) wrote six Judiciary Committee letters requesting information from: John Podesta, Donna Brazille, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Robbie Mook, the DNC, and Hillary For America Chief Strategist Joel Benenson.

A brief refresher of facts and allegations:

• The DNC and Hillary Clinton’s PAC was revealed by The Washington Post  to have paid opposition research firm Fusion GPS for the creation of a dossier that would be harmful to then-candidate Donald Trump.


• Fusion commissioned former UK spy Christopher Steele to assemble the dossier – which is comprised of a series of memos relying largely on Russian government sources to make allegations against Donald Trump and his associates.


• According to court filings, Fusion also worked with disgraced DOJ official Bruce Ohr, and hired his CIA-linked wife, Nellie Ohr, to assist in the smear campaign against Trump. Bruce Ohr was demoted from his senior DOJ position after it was revealed that he met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson as well as Christopher Steele – then tried to cover it up.


• Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, denied under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he knew about the dossier’s funding, while Clinton’s former spokesman, Brian Fallon, told CNN that Hillary likely had no idea who paid for it either.


• Current and past leaders of the DNC, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) also denied knowledge of the document’s funding.


• Podesta met with Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson the day after the Trump-Russia dossier was published by Buzzfeed News. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee letters read in part:

In October 2017, the Washington Post reported that Hillary for America and the Democratic National Committee had funded, via Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele’s creation of a series of memos relying largely on Russian government sources to make allegations against Donald Trump and his associates. A letter from the law firm Perkins Coie acknowledged that, ” [t]o assist in its representation of the DNC and Hillary for America, Perkins Coie engaged Fusion GPS in April of2016″ and that “the engagement concluded prior to the November 2016 Presidential election

the Committee has been investigating the FBI’ s relationship with Christopher Steele during this time his work was funded by Hillary for America and the DNC. The scope of our review includes the extent to which the FBI may have relied on information relayed by Mr. Steele in seeking judicial authorization for surveillance of individuals associated with Mr. Trump. It also includes whether any applications that may have been made for permission for such surveillance fully and accurately disclosed:

(1) the source of Fusion GPS’s and Mr. Steele’s funding;

(2) the degree to which his claims were or were not verified;

(3) the motivations of Mr. Steele, his clients, and his sources; and

( 4) representations about their contacts with the press.

The letter then goes on to list twelve questions – the last being a request for all communications between a list of 40 individuals or entities – including Christopher Steele, Bruce Ohr, Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, Glenn Simpson and former CIA Director John Brennan. 

The six recipients of letters have two weeks to comply with the following requests (note; “Hillary for America” is replaced by “the DNC” depending on who the letter is addressed to):

1. Prior to the Washington Post ‘s article in October of 2017, were you anyone else at Hillary for America aware of Mr. Steele’s efforts on behalf of the Clinton campaign to compile and distribute allegations about Mr. Trump and the Russian government? If so, when and how did you first learn of his activities on the campaign’s behalf? Please provide all related documents.

2. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America receive copies of any of the memoranda comprising Mr. Steele’s dossier prior to its publication by Buzzfeed in January of 2017? If so, how and when? Please provide all related documents.

3. Regardless of whether you or your associates received copies of the actual memoranda, did you or anyone else at Hillary for America otherwise receive information contained in the dossier prior to Buzzfeed publishing the dossier in January of 2017? If so, how and when? Please provide all related documents.

4. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America receive other memoranda written or forwarded by Mr. Steele regarding Mr. Trump and his associates that were not published as part of the Buzzfeed dossier? If so, how and when? Please provide all related documents.

5. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America distribute outside of the organization any o f the dossier memoranda, information contained therein, or other information obtained by Mr. Steele? If so, please list who distributed the information, what was distributed, and to whom it was distributed. Please provide all related documents.

6. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America communicate with any government officials – whether in the executive, legislative or judicial branches – regarding the dossier memoranda, information contained therein, or other information obtained by Mr. Steele? If so, please list the parties involved in the communication, the content of the communication, and the date and means of the communication. Please provide all related documents. References such as “anyone at Hillary for America” include all of Hillary for America’s officers, employees, contractors, subcontractors, advisors, volunteers, and, of course, Secretary Clinton herself. Mr. Podesta January 25, 2018

7. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America instruct, request, suggest, or imply that any individuals should pass along information to Mr. Steele or his intermediaries? Please provide all related documents.

8. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America communicate with members of the press regarding the dossier memoranda, information contained therein, or other information obtained by Mr. Steele? If so, please list the parties involved in the communication, the content of the communication, and the date and means of the communication. Please provide all related documents.

9. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America inform Secretary Clinton of Mr. Steele’s efforts, whether by name or not, or of the allegations he was spreading? If so, who and when? Please provide all related documents.

10. Were you or anyone else at Hillary for America aware of Mr. Steele’s contacts with the FBI or other government agencies prior to the 2016 election? If so, who? When and how did you or they become aware? Please provide all related documents.

11. Did you or anyone else at Hillary for America encourage, whether directly or through intermediaries, Mr. Steele to initiate or continue contacts with the FBI or other government agencies? If so, who and when? Please provide all related documents.

12. For the period from March 2016 through January 2017, please provide all communications to, from, copying, or relating to:Fusion GPS; Bean LLC; Glenn Simpson; Mary Jacoby; Peter Fritsch; Tom Catan; Jason Felch; Neil King; David Michaels; Taylor Sears; Patrick Corcoran; Laura Sego; Jay Bagwell; Erica Castro; Nellie Ohr; Rinat Akhmetshin; Ed Lieberman; Edward Baumgartner; Orbis Business Intelligence Limited; Orbis Business International Limited; Walsingham Training Limited; Walsingham Partners Limited; Christopher Steele; Christopher Burrows; Sir Andrew Wood, Paul Hauser; 4 Oleg Deripaska; Cody Shearer; Sidney Blumenthal; Jon Winer; 5 Kathleen Kavalec; Victoria Nuland; Daniel Jones; 6 Bruce Ohr; Peter Strzok; Andrew McCabe; James Baker; 7 Sally Yates; Loretta Lynch; John Brennan.

Via Zero Hedge

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Former Top Spy Accused of Leaking to CNN

Former top U.S. spy James Clapper is coming under fire over allegations he leaked information to CNN during his time as director of National Intelligence. One America’s Jack Posobiec has more from Washington.

 

 

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Trey Gowdy Heavily Suggests Longtime Clinton Ally Sidney Blumenthal Was a Source for Steele Dossier

JULIO ROSAS | FEB 7, 2018 | 8:23 AM

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) suggested on Tuesday that longtime Clinton family ally Sidney Blumenthal was a source for the dossier compiled by Christopher Steele. Fox News’ Martha MacCallum asked Gowdy if someone in the Obama State Department fed Steele information “from a foreign source.”

“When you hear who the source, or one of the sources of that information is, you’re gonna think, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve heard that name somewhere before, where could it possibly have been,’” he said.

 

 

“The domestic source,” he explained. “And I’m trying to think how Secretary Clinton defined him. I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time.”

“Sidney Blumenthal?” MacCallum asked.

“That’d be really warm. You’re warm. Yeah,” Gowdy replied.

Read more at IJR

 

 

 

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FBI Scandal Update: Newly Released FBI Texts Implicate Obama And Hillary Clinton

The FBI scandal continues to unfold. Newly discovered texts exchanged by FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page reveal probable involvement by former President Barack Obama in the 2016 investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The text messages appear to clearly state that Barack Obama wanted all the details of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.  This would mean that Obama was well aware of everything that was taking place at the time.

According to Fox News, the text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know everything we’re doing.” The message, from Page to Strzok, was among thousands of texts between the lovers. The pair both worked at one point for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Page also revealed in her text messages with the Strzok that former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe knew of emails discovered on Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s computer on Sept 28, 2016. Comey did not notify Congress of this batch of emails until days before the election on October 28, 2016. The delay in notification and the role McCabe played in the investigation is reportedly an item of interest for FBI inspector general Michael Horowitz in a new report.

In texts previously revealed, Strzok and Page have shown their disdain for Republicans in general, as well as Trump, calling him an “f—ing idiot,” among other insults. Among the newly disclosed texts, Strzok also calls Virginians who voted against then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s wife for a state Senate seat “ignorant hillbillys.” (sic) That text came from Strzok to Page on Nov. 4, 2015, the day after Jill McCabe lost a hotly contested Virginia state Senate election. Strzok said of the result, “Disappointing, but look at the district map. Loudon is being gentrified, but it’s still largely ignorant hillbilliys. Good for her for running, but curious if she’s energized or never again.”

Strozk and Page also discussed a “secret society” and an “insurance policy” in the event that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.  Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, along with majority staff from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is releasing the texts, along with a report titled, “The Clinton Email Scandal and the FBI’s Investigation of it.”

FISA Memo Confirms Surveillance of Trump Campaign Was Based On Dodgy Steele Dossier

This report was originally published by Paul Joseph Watson at InfoWars.com

The FISA memo confirms that the FBI relied on the notorious and hyper-partisan Steele dossier to justify its surveillance of the Trump campaign.

The memo has now been declassified and made public and can be read below.

House Intelligence Committee Report On FISA Abuses by The Federalist on Scribd

“The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications,” according to the Washington Examiner.

The Steele dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC via Fusion GPS.

“DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.”

Clip: First details on "the memo" reported by Catherine Herridge: pic.twitter.com/cuklrBlpHR

— johnny dollar (@johnnydollar01) February 2, 2018

The memo also reportedly details how, “Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.”

The memo proves everything we’ve been saying. The Obama administration conspired with the Clinton campaign to abuse the power of government in an effort to to sabotage Trump’s campaign.

In addition, the entire “Russian collusion” narrative is a hoax based on this hyper-partisan scheme.

Reaction to the revelations are already rolling in.

The memo reveals a clear violation of @realDonaldTrump and his campaign personnel’s Constitutional rights, as well as an attempt to use the intelligence community to alter a Presidential election.

This is high treason and people need to be prosecuted. #MemoDay

— Julian Assange ⌛️ (@TheRealJuIian) February 2, 2018

That time when Comey lied under oath and said he "looked carefully" and found "no information" regarding Trump surveillance in FBI and DOJ-> pic.twitter.com/H2mSCo8MRf

— Joslyne Raquel (@joslyne_raquel) February 2, 2018

Can you imagine if the Bush FBI had done this to Obama? The maniacal outrage in the Media, Schumer at the mic demanding heads…

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) February 2, 2018

DNC / Clinton’s pay for Steele dossier.

Obama’s FBI approves warrant based on dossier without disclosing funding.

Dossier leaks to Yahoo, which reports on allegations.

Obama’s FBI uses this article in FISA warrant application without disclosing its from Steele.

Felonies!

— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 2, 2018

The saddest thing about this memo is that the revelations aren"t even news to some of us

New media and even Trump were reporting this a year ago and MSM/special interests said it was a conspiracy theory

— William Craddick (@williamcraddick) February 2, 2018

Now it is clear to all. The claims about how the "Nunes" memo would destroy "national security" were lies. Classification stickers are used by bureaucrats trying to obtain "political security" for their cronies. https://t.co/agGUiTeI9T

— Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) February 2, 2018

Adam Schiff"s week long fearmongering about the memo endangering national security, sources or methods has been proven to be a complete lie.

There"s literally nothing in there that does that.

He really is #FullofSchiff.#MemoDay

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 2, 2018

FBI used articles planted by Fusion GPS to corroborate the Steele dossier compiled by Fusion GPS, which they then leaked to produce more stories. There was a bouncing ball between media/govt/media to create and weaponize the Russia collusion narrative. pic.twitter.com/AW8HAmfWNj

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) February 2, 2018

This isn"t just circular reporting uncovered by the Nunes memo. This is full-fledged #FakeNews #MemoDay Why does MSM even want to spin this? Because they are implicated, they cannot admit fault. pic.twitter.com/FOxJlZnts4

— James O"Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 2, 2018

Clinton campaign working w/ a foreign govt to concoct a damaging nonsense dossier on Trump, giving it to the FBI to open an investigation on Trump is CLEARLY proof Trump was colluding with a foreign govt #MemoDay

— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) February 2, 2018

Reminder: Steele claims his dossier was based on Kremlin intelligence sources

We now know the FBI took Kremlin and Hillary campaign information and used it to spy on Trump

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) February 2, 2018

Memo shows FISA court was misled by Comey, McCabe, Yates, and Rosenstein. Will Rosenstein be fired? Will he have to recuse himself, in the least? @RealDonaldTrump may have to act.

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) February 2, 2018

So Obama’s government, the #DNC, and members of the #MSM all conspired to fix a presidential election by deceiving a secret court allowed to spy on American citizens? Russians couldn’t have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than #Democrats have.

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 2, 2018

What in this memo were FBI top brass & Dems panicking all week about being revealed aside from their own hyper-partisan corruption? #MemoDay

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 2, 2018

REMINDER: Dossier maker Fusion GPS has PAID JOURNALISTS.

The memo proves the FBI, media, and intelligence agents were complicit in creating fiction to spy on President Trump.

Collusion.

Bribery.

Treason.#LockThemUphttps://t.co/uOqQ7HUdEM

— Andrew Meyer (@TheAndrewMeyer) February 2, 2018

House Intel memo key point: The FBI"s Andrew McCabe confirmed to the committee that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information. Story posting soon.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 2, 2018

“It’s a disgrace what’s going on in our country, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves,” President Trump commented moments ago.

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[VIDEO] Texts Between Ex-Mueller Team Members Emerge: ‘F Trump’

Text messages were released between an FBI official responsible who was a key figure in the chain of events that began when the bureau, in 2016, received the infamous anti-Trump “dossier.” The FBI officials involved sent texts reading “F TRUMP,” among others.

The infamous dossier launched a counterintelligence investigation into “Russian meddling in the election” that ultimately came to encompass FISA surveillance of a Trump campaign associate. Text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in 2016 that were obtained by Fox News on Tuesday referred to then-candidate Donald Trump as a “loathsome human” and “an idiot.”

Strzok briefed the committee on Dec. 5, 2016, sources said. But within months of that session House Intelligence Committee investigators were contacted by an informant suggesting that there was “documentary evidence” that Strzok was purportedly obstructing the House probe into the dossier. Strzok also oversaw the bureau’s interviews with ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn – who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators in the Russia probe.

More than 10,000 texts between Strzok and Lisa Page were being reviewed by the Justice Department after Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe after it was revealed that some of them contained anti-Trump content.

The messages were sent during the 2016 campaign and contain discussions about various candidates. On March 2, Strzok texted Page that someone “asked me who I’d vote for, guessed [Ohio Gov. John] Kasich.”

“Seriously?! Would you not [vote] D[emocrat]?” Page responded.

“I don’t know,” Strzok answered. “I suppose Hillary [Clinton].”

“I would [vote] D,” Page affirmed.

Two days later, Page texted Strzok, “God, Trump is a loathsome human.”

“Yet he many[sic] win,” Strzok responded. “Good for Hillary.”

Later the same day, Strzok texted Page, “Omg [Trump’s] an idiot.”

“He’s awful,” Page answered.

“America will get what the voting public deserves,” said Strzok, to which Page responded. “That’s what I’m afraid of.”

Later that same day, Strzok texted Page, “Ok I may vote for Trump.”

“What?” answered Page. “Poor Kasich. He’s the only sensible man up there.”

“He was pretty much calling for death for [NSA leaker] Edward Snowden,” Strzok said. “I’m a single-issue voter. Espionage Machine Party.”

Strzok later told Page, “Exacty [sic] re Kasich. And he has ZERO appeal.”

Twelve days later, after Trump took a commanding lead in the Republican delegate race with victories in key “Super Tuesday” primaries, Page texted Strzok, “I can not believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president.”

Four months later, Strzok and Page exchanged messages mocking Trump and his family at the Republican National Convention.

“Oooh, TURN IT ON, TURN IT ON!!! THE DO*CHEBAGS ARE ABOUT TO COME OUT,” Strzok texted Page on July 19. “You can tell by the excitable clapping.”

Later, Strzok reached out to Page again, saying, “Omg. You listening to npr? Apparently Melania’s speech had passages lifted from Michelle Obama’s…Unbelievable.”

“NO WAY!” Page answered, adding “God, it’s just a two-bit organization. I do so hope his disorganization comes to bite him hard in November.”

On Aug. 6, Page texted Strzok a New York Times article about Muslim lawyer Khzir Khan, who became embroiled in a war of words with Trump after Khan spoke at the Democratic National Convention.

“Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself,” Page wrote in a message attached to the article.

“God that’s a great article,” Strzok answered. “Thanks for sharing. And F TRUMP.“

No wonder the FBI is desperately trying to get the Russian narrative to stick. Democracy and justice no longer exist.

According to Fox News, Strzok, who was an FBI counterintelligence agent, was reassigned to the FBI’s human resources division after the discovery of the exchanges with Page, with whom he was having an affair. Page was briefly on Mueller’s team but has since returned to the FBI.

Strzok was also present during the FBI’s July 2016 interview with Hillary Clinton at the close of the email investigation, shortly before then-FBI director James Comey called her actions “extremely careless” without recommending criminal charges.

Mueller Interviews "Trump Dossier" Author Chris Steele

Revelations about the status of the various investigations into whether the Trump campaign actively colluded with the Russian government are making increasingly little sense.

Yesterday, leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said that they’d “hit a wall” in their efforts to verify the contents of the infamous “Trump dossier.”

As has been widely reported, the dossier - which contained several salacious allegations about Trump’s Russia ties - was commissioned by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS and assembled by a man named Christopher Steele, allegedly a former operative who spent time in Russia on behalf of British intelligence.

Until today, Steele had remained a cypher; unwilling to meet with investigators, and beyond the reach of their subpoena power.

Senator Richard Burr’s revelation that the committee’s investigators had effectively given up on the dossier further supported this impression.

Now, a day after Reuters reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had assumed control of the FBI’s inquiry into the dossier, CNN is reporting that Mueller and his team caught up with Steele over the summer.

However, the contents of their discussion remain a mystery.

CNN has learned that the FBI and the US intelligence community last year took the Steele dossier more seriously than the agencies have publicly acknowledged. James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, said in a January 2017 statement that the intelligence community had "not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable."

The intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, and the FBI took Steele"s research seriously enough that they kept it out of a publicly-released January report on Russian meddling in the election in order to not divulge which parts of the dossier they had corroborated and how.

This contrasts with attempts by President Donald Trump and some lawmakers to discredit Steele and the memos he produced.

The implication, CNN asserts, is that investigators have corroborated some of the dossier’s claims.

But even if this does turn out to be true, CNN’s reporters were unable to confirm this with their sources. They also were unable to ascertain what Steele had said or whether he provided any useful information to help investigators corroborate the dossier’s claims. None of this stopped Jeff Zucker’s propaganda machine from venturing an educated guess:

“Specifically that some of the communications among foreign nationals mentioned in the memos did actually take place.”

In a notable divergence from its previous investigation "scoops", CNN left the most confusing and contradictory assertions for the end of its report. In this section, it reported that sources told the agency about an internal debate among the intelligence agencies about whether to include select allegations from the Trump dossier in a January report presenting the agencies’ conclusion that Russia tried to interfere in the election.

Ultimately, the agencies decided against publishing details from the dossier after concluding that revealing what US intelligence has, or hasn’t, confirmed could jeopardize sources or reveal secret intelligence collecting methods, and this information remains classified. Trump was instead privately briefed on the allegations by then-FBI Director James Comey.

But if some of the dossier’s allegations have been corroborated, then why hasn’t anything been done?

Given the steady trickle of leaks from the intelligence agencies and the various investigations, we imagine these details would’ve been revealed by now.

Which prompts us to ask: Was the Steele interview a dud?