Sara Carter: Trump dossier author Steele KNEW Hillary, DNC, paid for document; FBI did NOT inform FISA court
(National Sentinel) Scandalous: Investigative reporter and Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter noted Thursday that former British spy Christopher Steele was aware of the fact that the campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee was paying for the “Trump dossier” he authored.
However, the FBI did not include that information in its application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when officials used the unverified document to obtain a surveillance warrant to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page.
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Sara Carter reported:
Former British spy Christopher Steele was informed months after accepting the job to compile a dossier on then-candidate Donald J. Trump that the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee were paying the bills but that’s not what the FBI told the secret FISA court when it sought a warrant to spy on one of Trump’s campaign volunteers.
This bit of explosive information was revealed in an expose on Steele by The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer but the implications for the FBI are profound. Why? Because the bureau explicitly stated in its Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Application to the secret court that Steele was unaware of who backed Fusion GPS, the firm which hired him, for the research.
Steele, however, claimed in the expose titled Christopher Steele, The Man Behind the Trump Dossier that he did know who was paying his bill.
“Under the arrangement, Orbis was a subcontractor working for Fusion GPS, a private research firm in Washington,” according to the article. “Fusion, in turn, had been contracted by a law firm, Perkins Coie, which represented both Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Several months after Steele signed the deal, he learned that, through this chain, his research was being jointly subsidized by the Clinton campaign and the D.N.C. In all, Steele was paid a hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars for his work.”
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In a footnote on the warrant application to the court, the FBI stated that the “identified U.S. Person never advised Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into Candidate #1’s ties to Russia.” Meaning that now embattled Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to conduct the research, never advised him of who was paying his bill.
The FBI submitted the FISA application on Carter Page, a former volunteer for the Trump campaign, on Oct. 21, 2016. Steele, according to testimony provided by Fusion GPS owner and former Wall Street Journal Reporter Glen Simpson was hired in the Spring of 2016. The New Yorker article also states that Steele was hired in the Spring.
That means that Steele would have known who was paying him by the time he met with the FBI in Italy during the summer of 2016.
“Which leads to another question, did Steele lie to the FBI or did the FBI choose not to disclose this information to the secret court?” Carter wrote.
Page has denied all of the allegations made against him in the unsubstantiated dossier.
Steele and others have been sued multiple times over the dossier, the latest lawsuit having been filed by Michael Cohen, a lawyer for President Donald J. Trump.
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