Nope I'm asking you since you are the one insisting that the dossier wasn't the only document used.
PUT UP OR SHUT THE **** UP.
Contrary to repeated assertions by Trump, Fox News, and many of his supporters, the dossier was not the impetus for the opening of the FBI's
"Crossfire Hurricane" counterintelligence investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Crossfire Hurricane was the
code name for a covert
counterintelligence investigation by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into
links between Trump associates and Russian officials and suspected coordination between the
Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government's
interference in the 2016 United States elections.
The investigation was officially opened on July 31, 2016, initially due to information on Trump campaign member
George Papadopoulos's early knowledge of Russians having damaging material on
Donald Trump's rival candidate
Hillary Clinton.
From late July to November 2016, the joint effort between the FBI, the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the
National Security Agency (NSA) examined evidence of Russian meddling in the
2016 United States presidential election. The FBI's team enjoyed a large degree of autonomy within the broader interagency probe.
Origins
After working on the
Ben Carson campaign as a foreign policy adviser, in early February 2016
George Papadopoulos left the Carson campaign. Also in early February, he reached out to the London Centre of International Law Practice (LCILP) asking if it was hiring, agreed to join, and arrived in London to begin work. On March 6, Papadopoulos accepted an offer to work with the Trump campaign.
[1] As part of his duties with the LCILP, on March 12 he traveled to the
Link Campus University in Rome to meet officials with the University. While on this trip, on March 14 he met Maltese professor
Joseph Mifsud and informed the professor about his joining the Trump campaign.
[2] On March 21, the Trump campaign told the Washington Post that Papadopoulos was one of five foreign policy advisers for the Trump campaign.
[2] Mifsud took more interest in Papadopoulos, and met him in London on March 24 with a Russian woman posing as "Putin's niece".
[3]
Mifsud travelled to Moscow in April 2016, and upon his return he told Papadopoulos that Russian government officials were in possession of "thousands of emails" that could be politically damaging to Hillary Clinton.
[3][4] On May 6, Papadopoulos met
Alexander Downer, the
Australian High Commissioner to Britain in a London bar, and told him about the Clinton emails over drinks.
[3] After
WikiLeaks released hacked
Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails on July 22, the Australian government on July 26 advised American authorities of the encounter between Downer and Papadopoulos, which spurred the FBI into launching the Crossfire Hurricane investigation on July 31.
[5][6]
FISA warrants
The FBI had surveilled Carter Page under a
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant beginning in 2013 or 2014, on concerns that Russian intelligence was attempting to recruit him.
[29][33] Trump announced his candidacy for President in June 2015, and Page joined his campaign on March 21, 2016.
[34][35] After
Michael Isikoff of
Yahoo! News reported on September 23, 2016, that Page was being investigated by American intelligence for his contacts with Russian agents,
[36] Page immediately left the Trump campaign, while two campaign spokesmen denied that he had ever been a part of it.
[37][38]
During the summer of 2016, the FBI applied for a warrant to conduct surveillance on four members of the Trump campaign, but this application was rejected by the FISA court as too broad.
[39]
On October 21, 2016, the FBI filed a new FISA warrant application for Page alone, expressing the FBI's belief that the Russian government was collaborating with Page and possibly others associated with the Trump campaign,
[40] and that Page had been the subject of targeted recruitment by Russian intelligence agencies.
[41] The rationale advanced in support of this warrant relied in part on Page's prior activities, in part on intercepts of Russian communications or confidential human intelligence sources, and in part on a "dossier" of raw intelligence findings gathered by former
MI6 agent
Christopher Steele.
Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation) - Wikipedia
Now shut your motherfucking mouth.