JUSTICE DEPARTMENT_ Justice Department worried about 'bias' of confidential source in FISA application based on Christopher Steele dossier

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Justice Department worried about 'bias' of confidential source in FISA application based on Christopher Steele dossier





by Jerry Dunleavy | March 22, 2019 02:25 PM

The Justice Department fretted about the "possible bias" of a source being used in a FISA application to obtain warrants against Trump campaign associate Carter Page, but the FBI pushed ahead anyway, text messages show.

Christopher Steele, the former British spy and author of the so-called Trump dossier, appears to be the source being referred to. He was being paid by Fusion GPS, which was itself being funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm, after initial financing from Republican opponents of Trump. Steele is the only known confidential source to have been cited in the FISA application.

The text messages, between then-Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, who was later fired, and former FBI attorney Lisa Page — who was having an affair with FBI agent Peter Strzok — were obtained by Fox News.

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Text messages from Lisa Page and FBI lawyer Peter Strzok seemed to reveal anti-Trump bias, and resulted in Strzok being removed from Mueller's team. These texts were also a focus of a DOJ Inspector General report into the handling of the Clinton email investigation.

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed Thursday that his investigation into possible FISA abuse at the DOJ and FBI is still active.

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