Of particular note was that the first FISA application for Page...was turned down. The next three were accepted, the difference being that the Steele Dossier had been added to the last three applications.
“the first FISA application for Page...was turned down”
Not quite. What was turned down was a request from the FBI to the DOJ to get approval to make a FISA application, not the application itself.
Then, the very same day that the FBI first recieved Steele’s report, they began working on a new request for a FISA application, based on Steele’s allegations. The bastards didn’t even take a single day to read Steele’s report and see if they could verify anything in it.