MEMO RELEASED: FBI Officials Knew Political Origins of Dossier, But Used It Anyway

by Kristina Wong, Breitbart:

The House Intelligence Committee released its classified memo detailing alleged abuse by senior FBI and Justice Department officials on Friday, after the president approved its release.

The memo was released without any of the redactions sought by the FBI and the DOJ. Read it below:

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Sources tell @FoxNews the White House is in the process of transmitting the FISA memo and letter from the President back to HPSCI. Release should be a little later today.

— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) 2 February 2018

Among its findings are:

The anti-Trump dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee formed an “essential” part of the initial and all three renewal surveillance applications against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page;

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA court without the dossier;

The political origins of the dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but not included in applications to obtain the warrant;

Justice Department official Bruce Ohr met with dossier author Christopher Steele in the summer of 2016 and told the Justice Department that Steele had told Ohr that Steele was “desperate” that Trump not get elected president.

This is a developing story.

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