Thursday, August 08, 2019

INVESTIGATING THE INVESTIGATORS_ FBI kept using Steele dossier for FISA applications despite documenting ex-spy's bias, documents show

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FBI kept using Steele dossier for FISA applications despite documenting ex-spy's bias, documents show

By Gregg Re, Catherine Herridge | Fox News



New 302s confirm extensive contact between Steele and Ohr months after Steele was fired by FBI 
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton reacts to the release of the Bruce Ohr 302s on 'Hannity.'


The FBI formally documented the anti-Trump bias of British ex-spy Christopher Steele months before the November 2016 presidential election, yet used his unverified dossier in multiple Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant application renewals, records obtained by Fox News show.

The partially redacted documents, first obtained by Judicial Watch, also revealed that top Justice Department official Bruce Ohr maintained contact with Steele for at least six months after Steele was fired by the FBI for unauthorized media contacts in November 2016.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News' "Hannity" Thursday evening. "I know personally there's a lot more out there."

The summaries of FBI interviews with Ohr, known as 302s, showed that Ohr knew by September 2016 -- a month before the initial FISA application to surveil the Trump campaign -- that Steele was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President.”

A source close to the matter told Fox News "this had the effect of putting a senior DOJ official on notice that a witness/source had an extreme bias."

Nevertheless, the FISA warrant application went through in October 2016 with multiple renewals. While the FISA records are heavily redacted, it does not appear that the FBI's documentation about Steele's bias was ever shared with the FISA court.

Proceedings before FISA courts are ex parte, meaning defendants are not aware of them or able to attend in any capacity. The FBI has a legal and procedural obligation to reveal exculpatory evidence to the FISA court on its own.

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READ MORE: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-didnt-disclose-reason-to-doubt-credibility-of-key-source-to-fisa-court-docs-show

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"This is just the tip of the iceberg."

— Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

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