It’s Suspicious That The FBI And DOJ Didn’t Check Into Christopher Steele’s Leaks To The Press

The Federalist ^ | July 25, 2018 | Jason Beale

[detective]

Here’s a hypothetical question for journalists: Let’s say you managed to convince the translator in the room during the President Trump-Vladimir Putin meeting to speak to you, and you only, on the condition of anonymity, and you’re in the midst of writing an explosive, exclusive story for your publication. As you’re writing, you look up to see BREAKING NEWS on CNN, and listen as Wolf Blitzer reports the story you’re writing, with the exact fly-on-the-wall detail you received from your “exclusive” source.

So what’s your first move? Would you assume CNN must’ve convinced the Russian translator to talk to them and move on with your story without taking any action, or would you call your source to figure out where that CNN information came from? If your source denied talking to CNN, would you believe him and move on, or would you do whatever you could to determine whether you can trust this source on such an important matter? You’d want to know the answer to that question before proceeding, would you not?

[detective]

A hypothetical question for the FBI: Let’s say you’re putting together a secret document requesting a secret court to declare a fellow American a treasonous agent of a foreign power and grant the government clandestine access to his intimate communications. As you’re reviewing the evidence you plan to include, you discover a news article that contains information known only to your source and his employer—the same information you are planning to include in the secret FISA warrant application.

As your relationship with the source—which has included financial compensation—is predicated on his agreement not to share this information with anyone (other than his employer) outside of the FBI, it occurs to you that his possible abrogation of the agreement will reflect poorly on his credibility and judgement, necessitating his dismissal as a source, and calling into question whether you can responsibly certify his credibility in front of a FISA judge.

According to the FISA application that the FBI and DOJ presented Steele lied to the FBI about his leaks to the press prior to the October 2016 FISA proceeding. The FBI was unwilling to apply their awesome investigative capabilities to either prove or disprove the lie.

The FBI/DOJ attorneys presented the case to the FISA judge based on the credibility of their Source #1, a felonious liar.

[Paladin2]

Criminal.

[UCANSEE2]

Your ‘hypothetical arguments’ are logical.

However, you cannot use logic to argue with emotion and ill-intent.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Criminal.

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Treasonous...

[Paladin2]

"Treasonous..."

I don't think that is a Civil "Matter"...

[yesthatjallen]

Christopher Steele is THE KEY to the entire Russia narrative.

He should be THE FOCUS of the investigation.

It all begins with the THE STEELE DOSSIER.

Yet Steele is rarely mentioned.

It's almost like everyone on both sides couldn't care less.

[jjotto]

No need to investigate because they know Steele wasn’t the ‘source’.

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/251897/obama-steele-dossier-russiagate

...A Tablet investigation using public sources to trace the evolution of the now-famous dossier suggests that central elements of the Russiagate scandal emerged not from the British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s top-secret “sources” in the Russian government — which are unlikely to exist separate from Russian government control — but from a series of stories that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby co-wrote for The Wall Street Journal well before Fusion GPS existed, and Donald Trump was simply another loud-mouthed Manhattan real estate millionaire...

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Every fact that has emerged into public view since July 5, 2016 points in the same direction: a concerted illegal effort on the part of the U.S. government to deliver the Presidency to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

[detective]

“No need to investigate because they know Steele wasn’t the ‘source’.”

Exactly.

Everyone knew the dossier was totally fraudulent. Everyone knew the so called “sources” cited by the dossier did not exist. Everyone knew that Steele(source #1 in the FISA application) was not in any way credible.

But the dossier was illegally and fraudulently used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the entire Trump campaign and the Trump presidency.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Since when is a counter intelligence investigation a “civil” matter?

[Lockbox]

It’s Suspicious That The FBI And DOJ Didn’t Check Into Christopher Steele’s Leaks To The Press?

Duh, it was on Christopher's to do list from the FBI........... leak to press - check! So why would the FBI and DOJ be suspicious when everything was going to plan?

[detective]

“it was on Christopher’s to do list from the FBI. leak to press - check! So why would the FBI and DOJ be suspicious when everything was going to plan?”

The word suspicious here means that it is one more piece of evidence that shows that the FISA application was fraudulent.

[Fireone]

They should call it the McCain/Reid dossier, I’m sure they had as much input as anyone.

[TBP]

It didn’t fit their agenda.

[Paladin2]

"...when is a counter intelligence investigation a “civil” matter?"

For the latest 12 Rooksie targets of Weasel Mueller it appears to be neither. Wholly, Holy, Down the memory hole.

[Two Kids' Dad]

But the felonious liar told them stuff that they wanted to hear, so they couldn’t dig deeper for fear of finding out it’s not true.

The end result (to them) is WAY more important than the truth or the law or any societal bounds of propriety. If they can ‘get him’ by hook or by crook they’ll give it their 100% effort, consequences be damned.

[Lockbox]

The DOJ and FBI did not care that the FISA application was fraudulent, it was only needed to ‘legally’ wire tap Trump.

[Pagey]

Bttt!