Many have seen me rant about the Obama Administration’s and Hillary Clinton campaign’s involvement in opposition research known as the Steele Dossier. Then the FBI and DOJ using Steele’s shoddy Dossier before the FISA court to spy on American citizens.
Apparently, the FBI tried to corroborate Steele’s claims. The effort was ramped up only after the Obama Administration, through the DOJ and the FBI peddled the Dossier to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), a secret tribunal established by Congress in the wake of the 1970’s spy scandals to give Americans a modicum of due process protection against national security monitoring.
Months after the FISA warrants were issued, enabling the FBI to monitor former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, then-director Comey sheepishly conceded to Judiciary Committee senators that investigators had not verified the allegations; they had relied on them because they had believed Steele. This despite the fact that Steele had not even pretended to be the actual source of the allegations. Essentially, he was an aggregator, a collector of rank rumor.
Steele was virtually an anti-Trump partisan. It should be noted that John Brennon and James Clepper also leaked portions of this fake Dossier to the press and promoted these lies to the American people.
Although there were many, two things are especially worth noting about these claims, which have been convincingly denied by Page and Cohen. First, Steele’s vaunted sources never predicted clandestine treachery. Rather, Steele and Simpson fashioned a narrative framework of Trump-Russia collusion and then folded into the story each new publicly reported development—Page’s well-publicized trip to Russia, the hacked DNC emails, even though WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had begun speaking publicly about a coming release of Clinton related material over a month earlier. When Steele finally wrote about the emails, he echoed what the Clinton Campaign was already saying publicly.
Second, there is the matter of the Kremlin sources to whom Steele attributed his information. Steele maintains that a “former top Russian intelligence officer” was one of his principal sources. Hopefully, the current Barr, Durham investigation will expose all this Obama nonsense.
Remember, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report found no conspiracy between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. What remains to be investigated are the neon-flashing indications that we’ve been had. All deep state actors need to be flushed out in the interest of our Constitutional Republic.
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