On Tuesday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a “much-less redacted,” version of this week’s criminal referral — also known as memo 2.0 — of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
Grassley releases a much-less redacted version of the Grassley/Graham criminal referral of Steele, approved by FBI today, which raises many similar issues about FBI reliance on Steele with the FISA court from the Nunes memo https://t.co/sWqURR9bFm
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) February 7, 2018
Below are screenshots of both the redacted and much-less redacted versions of Grassley’s report.
Here are the side by side redacted vs ‘unredacted’ Grassley Memos:
Cc:@TheLastRefuge2 @chiIIum @kevinh07 @DaveNYviii pic.twitter.com/bhy7YLpqwQ— Zhuang Zhou’s Casual Sedition-if you know you know (@politicalwilli) February 7, 2018
Page three of the report reveals, “”The FBI stated to the FISC that “based on [Steele’s] previous history with the FBI, whereby [Steele] provided reliable information to the FBI, the FBI believe [Steele’s] reporting to be credible.””
MORE less-redacted Grassley-Graham memo: Comey told Grassley & Feinstein the FBI relied on dossier “absent meaningful corroboration — and in light of the highly political motives surrounding RTs creation” because Steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work w/FBI. pic.twitter.com/DDd0zEIuOU
— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) February 7, 2018
Translation, the FBI believed Steele’s dossier was credible mainly because of his reputation, not due to the information itself.
As Breitbart News reporter Kristina Wong points out, the FISA application did not disclose “that the identities of Mr. Simpson’s ultimate clients were the Clinton campaign and the DNC.”
Less-redacted Grassley-Graham memo: The FISA “application failed to disclose that the identities of Mr. Simpson’s ultimate clients were the Clinton campaign and the DNC.” pic.twitter.com/yUs2LclVIV
— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) February 7, 2018
Independent researcher Brian Cates summed up the less-redacted memo in a series of tweets.
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/961062011760148480
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/961062697231056897
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/961062981814702081
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/961063258345148416
As Security Studies’ Nick Short pointed out, either the FISA applications are “either materially false,” in stating Christopher Steele claimed he did not hand over the dossier information to the media before October, 2016, or the former British spy lied to the FBI.
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/961073015915098112