Ruh Roh.....D.O.J. Find Christopher Steele

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One more little tidbit for all you Trump haters who still believe that the dossier (fairy tale) was verified.

According to an article written by Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy, dated March 15, 2019, Steele admitted that much of the information in his dossier was obtained from unchecked sources on an Internet chat line. The following are excerpts from Dunleavy's article:

In the dossier, Steele, a Cambridge-educated former MI6 officer, wrote about extensive allegations against Donald Trump, associates of his campaign, various Russians and other foreign nationals, and a variety of companies — including one called Webzilla. Those allegations would become part of an FBI investigation and would be used to apply for warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”

When asked if he discovered “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla” during the verification process, Steele replied: “We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport.

When asked if he understood that content on the site was not generated by CNN reporters, he said, "I do not."

He was then asked: “Do you understand that they have no connection to any CNN reporters?” Steele replied, “I do not.”

He was pressed on this further: “Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individual'’ assertions on the Internet?” Steele replied: “No, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site."

When asked about his methodology for searching for this information, Steele described it as “what we could call an open source search,” which he defined as “where you go into the Internet and you access material that is available on the Internet that is of relevance or reference to the issue at hand or the person under consideration.”

Steele said his dossier contained "raw intelligence" that he admitted could contain untrue or even "deliberately false information."

Christopher Steele admitted using posts by 'random individuals' on CNN website to back up Trump dossier

Don't ever forget that Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president." This clear evidence of Steele's bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files—but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications.

The Nunes FBI Memo, Annotated

CONCLUSION: It is obvious that Steele was looking for anything which could be used against Trump. He didn't care if it was true or not. The FBI leadership used Steel's information knowing it was totally unreliable because they had a mission to keep Trump from getting elected and an insurance policy to destroy him if he did..

Common misunderstanding and intentional disinformation about the Steele dossier: it is raw intelligence.

Raw intelligence is raw data gathered by an intelligence operation, such as espionage or signal interception. Such data commonly requires processing and analysis to make it useful and reliable.

The FBI and other agencies took these additional steps when they opened an investigation. In other words, everything was done correctly. If the FBI had taken the dossier and immediately charged individuals based solely on the allegations it contained, that'd be incorrect. Instead, the FBI opened an investigation to evaluate, analyze, and confirm/disprove the allegations - that's the proper use of raw intelligence. There's no scandal here.