Also, the FBI was given information about the dossier prior to the FISA application that should have made them think twice:
"Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media.
The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016.
Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s contacts with Russia in search of a now debunked collusion theory." [1]
I have a theory about the Steele Dossier. I posit that Comey and company didn't bother with trying to verify it because they knew ahead of time it would bear out to be unproven. Why would they know that? Perhaps they helped Steele write it.
"Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media.
The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016.
Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s contacts with Russia in search of a now debunked collusion theory." [1]
I have a theory about the Steele Dossier. I posit that Comey and company didn't bother with trying to verify it because they knew ahead of time it would bear out to be unproven. Why would they know that? Perhaps they helped Steele write it.
1. https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-s...