Posted on 08/04/2018 4:28:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The FBI formally admonished ex-British spy Christopher Steele in early 2016 before he began investigating candidate Donald Trump, according to new documents.
Mr. Steele signed the admonishment and then on at least two occasions violated the rule for confidential human sources, or CHS, by talking to the news media.
News of the verbal admonishment is contained in 70 pages of mostly redacted FBI documents on what Mr. Steele reported as a CHS, how much he was paid and how he met his demise as a key bureau undercover source.
The documents were obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which went to court to obtain them.
Totally redacted pay request forms show 11 payments in 2016, but don’t reveal his project. Mr. Steele, a Kremlin expert who runs Orbis Business Intelligence in London, had a previous FBI association and the payments could have been for other work.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
They sent him a stern letter? And it had no effect????
Shocking.
Pff. FBI “Rules” are worth zero, especially when upper-level executives are involved. They use them for toilet paper, and use the FBI as their personal property.
Who in reality was working for who?
Who is being charged? Right! No one. Business as usual.
The must have used Comic Sans for the font.
And then added a winking emjoii at the end.
Who gave First Lady Hillary boxes of FBI files on her enemies?
I’m just shocked that the word “rules” is in the same sentence as the fibbers....
Say what.... FBI Rules ???
I thought this was a nation of LAWS.
FBI r-u-l-e-s are super secret and changed on a whim, IMHO.
I read this story at another source last night - I can’t recall where, maybe Judicial Watch, maybe The Daily Caller?
Anyway, the “Admonishment” is actually a scheduled annual meeting between every FBI confidential source and the FBI agent who supervises that source.
In other words, it’s like the annual meeting we all have with our own employers to get a refresher course on sexual harassment laws, etc., etc.
So, it’s unlikely that Christopher Steele was actually “admonished” for a specific violation at that meeting.
However - from memory - Steele violated the news leak prohibition like two months after his Admonishment review, so he clearly can’t plead ignorance of his agreement.
Justice / FBI never admitted they paid Steel to spy on Trump. The real story is that he received 11 payments from the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign with Russian resources.
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