U.S. intel viewed Steele dossier as ‘highly politically sensitive’ and mostly uncorroborated

justthenews.com ^ | 6/11/2020 | john Solomon

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Declassified memo show intelligence community's assessment in December 2016, two months after FBI had already used dossier to support FISA warrant.

Two months after the FBI used Christopher Steele’s dossier to support a warrant targeting the Trump campaign, U.S. intelligence officially declared his evidence was “highly politically sensitive,” minimally corroborated and not worthy of including in its analysis of Russian election interference, a newly declassified document shows.

The so-called Annex A of the official Russian election interference Intelligence Community Assessment was declassified this week by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, providing the most definitive proof to date that the U.S. intelligence in December 2016 as President Obama was leaving office was wary of a dossier that was essential to the FBI probe into now-disproven Trump-Russia collusion.

“An FBI source, using both identified and unidentified sub sources, volunteered highly politically sensitive information from the summer to the fall of 2016 on Russian influence efforts aimed at the US presidential election. We have only limited corroboration of the source reporting in this case and did not use it to reach the analytic conclusions of the CIA/FBI/NSA assessment," the appendix stated.

The intelligence community assessment also warned that Steele appeared to have leaked his information to the media just before Trump was elected Nov. 8, 2016.

“The source’s reporting appears to have been acquired by multiple western press organizations starting in October,” the annex stated.

The annex confirms Republicans’ long-held suspicions that the intelligence community saw the Steele dossier as suspect even as the FBI portrayed its allegations as verified to a FISA court starting in October 2016.

You can read the newly declassified document here.

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https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-06/ACFrOgC0YUaFkCypZoCZsmZ2ZVH-5mfspviaERCirKScNCvysqfx0ALCTrDaaRkvBLLpTyCyNkBRWj5ubHTQtcHUm9_mi6Q75XPbn-tGl8cFZ4EJk5owK_MI8PwlJP4%3D.pdf

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https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-06/ACFrOgC0YUaFkCypZoCZsmZ2ZVH-5mfspviaERCirKScNCvysqfx0ALCTrDaaRkvBLLpTyCyNkBRWj5ubHTQtcHUm9_mi6Q75XPbn-tGl8cFZ4EJk5owK_MI8PwlJP4%3D.pdf

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[Ann Archy]

Not understanding. Is this cover for the CIA’s BRNENAN??

[G Larry]

Note:

"minimally corroborated"

and

"mostly uncorroborated"

Are both LIES!!!

There is NO corroboration!!!!

[Major Matt Mason]

The annex confirms Republicans’ long-held suspicions that the intelligence community saw the Steele dossier as suspect even as the FBI portrayed its allegations as verified to a FISA court starting in October 2016.

[bitt]

ALSO, https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1271078294960640001

@CBS_Herridge

declassified “Annex A” Intellligence Community Assessment 2016 Russian election interference cites Steele dossier. Alleges “President-elect and his top campaign advisers knowingly worked with Russian officials to bolster his chances..and were offered

..financial compensation.” Mueller did not substantiate. Not credible enough for Intel Community to use in body of report, but FBI still used dossier 3 more times to renew @carterwpage surveillance warrant. Requested @ChuckGrassley @SenRonJohnson Released DNI

[Ann Archy]

I got that part....the CIA STARTED THIS COUP!! WHY are they saying the “intelligence community” saw the dossier as suspect when the IC IS THE CIA????

[JoSixChip]

What was corroborated? Trump’s name was spelled correctly?

[EagleUSA]

It’s called the “Washington Two-Step”....

[Ann Archy]

The TWO STEP ends in NO ARRESTS!!!

[Yardstick]

Would be nice to see this reported beyond a tweet and an independent reporter’s site.

[bitt]

Solomon pushes the news out - it will be a flood in the right -

the left? Meh.

[stylin19a]

??? mostly uncorroborated

ok, I'll byte...what WAS corroborated ?

Also, December 2016? That's when no-name gave it up to Comey. That dossier was "out there" long before 12/2016 and MSM was afraid to pull the trigger, as nothing could be corroborated...

[melancholy]

The IC didn’t ‘view’ anything, and that includes the Dossier itself!

The question was, could it be used against Trump? The answer was a resounding YES!

As NIKE slogan goes: just do it!

It’s not very complicated, is it!

[Truthoverpower]

The main thrust of that’s the main charge was that Trump hired prostitutes to Pee yes urinate on the bed that Obama won slept in

Is there anything else in that stupid “dossier” they had any relevance whatsoever?

[Major Matt Mason]

Some non-black hats inside the IC may have viewed the dossier as suspect, but that doesn't mean that Brennan and other Marxists at the top of the CIA saw it that way.