You're comical. Here you have a dossier initiated and funded by Hillary/DNC and the FBI is found to be a PARTNER in DEVELOPING AND MARKETING the pile of shit. By treating Steele as a contractor/source and offering to PAY him. While Bruce Ohr (principle investigator in much of this at FBI) has a wife who's one of the 8 GPS employees. WOW.. What a ******* coincidence huh? And SHE is treated as an FBI CONTRACTOR with Fusion GPS.
Steele got caught BRAGGING to the media about the FBI telling him specific facts about ongoing investigations. And here YOU are. Telling me that EVERYTHING is just peachy. Because they ended up parting ways with Steele. That's a load.. But kinda funny considering how little all these opinionated "there's nothing there" people are.
Read this from the Wall Street Journal that is not left wing.
GOP Memo Escalates Clash Over Russia Probe
An excerpt:
At least two of those renewals occurred while Mr. Trump was president and at least one was authorized by a Justice Department official he appointed. A person familiar with the matter said that four separate federal judges approved the surveillance of Mr. Page, and all of those judges were appointed by Republican presidents.
The memo is critical of Mr. Steele and notes that prosecutors in their application for the warrant didn’t explicitly state that he was working for a firm funded by Democrats. But the FISA application did disclose Mr. Steele was being paid by a law firm working for a major political party, according to a person familiar with the matter. Redacting the names of U.S. people or organizations who aren’t the subject of an investigation is a common practice in government legal filings, designed to protect privacy.
Disappointed by the WSJ on accepting that quote. The Chief Justice of the SCourt APPOINTS those judges. Not the presidents. Fact that they all MIGHT have appointed under Repub Presidents is kinda iffy.
I think there were only actually 3 approved applications/renewals. They are probably counting the intitial application that was rejected. The rest of that is heresay, anonymous 3rd party. Like the part where the judge was told Steele was being paid by a political party. I don't believe it.
Release the FISA apps. There was ZERO REASON to classify or declassify ANY of this memo. It was classify ONLY to keep it from the media and public.
To release redacted FISA applications for all this -- now that everyone in the freaking world KNOWS the details of the investigation -- would be healthy and would NOT compromise sources and methods of ANYTHING. It's only because the ENTIRE PROCESS is technically classified.
MAYBE -- the Schiff Minority report will do that. And I'd be all in favor of that. Because I'd rather see it with my own eyes than rely on identified sources in the WSJ..