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 Crooked Yet Steadfast Tree (@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 🇺🇸 (@Kristinawong) 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 🇺🇸 (@Kristinawong) February 7, 2018
Independent researcher Brian Cates summed up the less-redacted memo in a series of tweets.
Wow. The unredacted Grassley memo claims that:
1) Steele lied to the FBI about his media contacts
2) Even *after* the FBI knew Steele was the source of the media stories, they LIED to the FISA court about this & *still* proffered the Isikoff article to the Court.
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
3) The FBI was still claiming to the FISA Court Steele hadn't talked to the media when they knew he had. They did this during EACH of the three renewals of the warrant.
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
Remember, the FBI had to *pretend* to the FISA Court they didn't know Steele was reporter Michael Isikoff's source for that Yahoo News article they proffered to the Court to corroborate the dossier allegations about Carter Page.
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
Adam Schiff is about to have a very bad week.
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 7, 2018
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
