Proof Emerges That Obama FBI Orchestrated the False
Russiagate Plot
Proof Emerges That Obama FBI Orchestrated the False
Russiagate Plot against Trump
AUGUST 03, 2018
Documents Reveal Steele Was Admonished in February,
2016
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today the FBI turned
over 70 pages of heavily redacted records about Christopher Steele, the former British
spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who
authored the infamous Dossier targeting President Trump during last year’s
presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a
“Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the
FBI to a third party. The documents show at least 11 FBI payments to
Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unknown reasons in
February, 2016. The documents were turned over in response to Judicial
Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for
records of communications and payments between the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele
and his private firm, Orbis Business Intelligence (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of
Justice (No. 1:17-cv-00916)).
The documents include a “source closing communication”
that states that Steele (referred to as “CHS” or Confidential Human Source) “is
being closed” because:
CHS confirmed to an outside third party that CHS has a
confidential relationship with the FBI. CHS was used as a source for an online
article. In the article, CHS revealed CHS’ relationship with the FBI as well as
information that CHS obtained and provided to FBI. On November 1, 2016, CHS
confirmed all of this to the handling agent. At that time, handling agent
advised CHS that the nature of the relationship between the FBI and CHS would
change completely and that it was unlikely that the FBI would continue a
relationship with the CHS. Additionally, handling agent advised that CHS was
not to operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI.
The documents also show that Steele was paid
repeatedly by the FBI and was “admonished” for some unknown misconduct in
February, 2016. The documents include:
- Fifteen (15) FD-1023, Source Reports.
- Thirteen
(13) FD-209a, Contact Reports.
- Eleven
(11) FD-794b, Payment Requests. (It appears Steele was paid money
eleven of the thirteen times he met with the FBI and gave them
information.)
- An
Electronic Communication (EC) documenting that on February 2, 2016, Steele
was admonished in accordance with the Justice Department guidelines and
the FBI CHS Policy Manual.
The documents were obtained as a result of a lawsuit
was filed after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a March 8,
2017, FOIA request seeking:
- All
records of communications between any official, employee, or
representative of the FBI and Mr. Christopher Steele, a former British
intelligence officer and the owner of the private firm Orbis Business
Intelligence.
- All
records related to the proposed, planned, or actual payment of any funds
to Mr. Steele and/or Orbis Business Intelligence.
- All
records produced in preparation for, during, or pursuant to any meetings
or telephonic conversations between any official, employee, or
representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher
Steele and/or any employee or representative of Orbis Business
Intelligence.
“These new docs show that the shady, cash-based
relationship the Obama FBI had with Clinton operative Christopher Steele,” said
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The anti-Trump Russia ‘investigation’ had
Christopher Steele at its center and his misconduct was no impediment to using
information from his Russia intelligence collaborators to spy on the Trump
team. The corruption and abuse is astonishing.”
Last week, a separate Judicial Watch lawsuit uncovered the FISA warrant documents used to
justify spying on Carter Page. The warrants are controversial because the FISA
court was never told that the key information justifying the requests came from
a “dossier” that was created by Fusion GPS, a paid agent of the Clinton
campaign and Democratic National Committee. Fusion GPS hired Steele to
create the Dossier and Steele is referenced repeatedly as “Source #1” in the
warrants. The initial Carter Page warrant was granted just weeks before the
2016 election. Steele and his “minimally corroborated” Clinton-DNC dossier was
an essential part of the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants
to spy on Page.
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