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Check this out:

Here's the document.


According to two individuals who worked in intelligence in the military, the document is bogus.

Jennifer E Dyer is a retired Naval Intelligence officer who lives in Southern California and contributor to LibertyUnyielding said, "Memo looks very bogus."

"This doesn’t look like anything official or valid, and most certainly is not written like a SIGINT collection request," she added.

Dyer also added the following things from a brief look at the document.
1. Steele would never be identified as an “MI5 agent” in such a document, even if he were one.
2. The verbiage used to define the target of surveillance (i.e., the floors of Trump Tower) is ridiculous. We’re talking about British GCHQ.
3. No US request that Hannigan had seen would come from Susan Rice. He certainly wouldn’t talk colloquially about a request from a top appointed official, identified by name, in a memo like this.

"Can’t say a lot more than that, but I would bypass it," Dyer concluded, adding that she did believe the document to probably be photoshopped.

Joe Newby of ConservativeFiringLine.com, who is a former active duty Marine who worked for a counter-intel unit before becoming a nuclear, biological and chemical defense specialist and co-author of the book Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic Jihad, agreed with Dyer, citing his past experience in intelligence.

It appears the document is a Photoshopped hoax. 
Now, why would anyone put that out ? 
It could be they are looking for quick traffic. 
It could be that someone leaked it for what is about to come out in the memo that Congress is seeking to release
in order to preempt the information before it's made available to the public
or it could be to simply poison the well of actual information with disinformation.

I'm sure there's going to be plenty of evidence of Obama's unconstitutional (unlawful) actions concerning spying on Donald Trump. 
We've documented more than 1,100 instances of Obama's crimes already.

The real question is,
what will those charged with enforcing the law do with what they are given ? 
Give him a pass ?

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There are at least a couple fake documents out there implicating Brit intel spying on Trump. I cant help but wonder if this isn’t almost a Dan Rather kind of thing where the documents are fake but the fact is true. Would the Brits really allow an “off the rails” character like Steele appears to be to run around lose and do what he was doing? Of course Brit intel knew what he was up to and approved or they would have stopped him.

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simply poison the well of actual information with disinformation.

There's a lot of this going on, I'm afraid. In the end, the apparatus will end up deluding itself into believing it's own disinformation. Look at the how the Hillary campaign was deluded into believing it's own skewed polls.

I shouldn't discount the pursuit of clicks as an engine of disinformation. News of the outrageous drives money into the pockets of the spammers.