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U.K. Court Documents Show Steele Told FBI Hillary Clinton Knew He Was Compiling the Phony Trump-Russia Dossier

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Recently released U.K. Court documents reveal that the FBI was aware that Christopher Steele had acknowledged Hillary Clinton herself knew he was commissioned to compile the phony Trump-Russia dossier.

The dossier alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election, along with various other phony allegations.

The dossier was used in a scheme to obtain a warrant to spy on one of Trump’s campaign advisors, Carter Page. The actors in this scheme withheld this information, along with other critical information, from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to obtain the warrant.

Breitbart reports:

The 57-page court ruling reveals that the FBI recorded notes of the July 5th meeting they held with Steele at his London Orbis Business office, where he handed the FBI the documents containing his unsubstantiated, largely-discredited anti-Trump charges.

The FBI noted that Steele had told them that his Orbis Business Intelligence firm was contracted by Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS and “Democratic Party Associates” to produce the dossier, but that he knew “the ultimate client were (sic) the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign.”

Steele is also documented alerting the FBI that he was aware that Clinton herself knew he was commissioned to create the dossier. One section of the court documents reads as follows (emphasis added):

Mr Steele’s evidence is that he now believes the Ultimate Client was the Democratic National Committee. Mr Millar submits that the Ultimate Client was the Clinton election campaign, “Hillary for America”. This is in line with the FBI Note of 5 July 2016, which records Mr Steele telling the FBI that Orbis had been instructed by Mr. Simpson of Fusion and “Democratic Party Associates” but that “the ultimate client were (sic) the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign.”  The FBI Note also indicates that Mr. Steele had been told by that stage that Mrs. Clinton herself was aware of what Orbis had been commissioned to do. 

The explosive FBI notes undermine the representation that it would make in an error-ridden Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application three months later, in order to spy on Page. 

In late October 2016, then-FBI director James Comey signed the FISA warrant application to spy on Page. The applications omitted the fact that Steele acknowledged Hillary Clinton was aware that he was being hired to compile the dossier.

Instead of being fully honest in the FISA warrant application, language was used to imply the FBI had no knowledge of Clinton or her campaign being involved with Steele.

The footnote in the FISA application read (emphasis added):

Source #1 [Steele], who now owns a foreign business/financial intelligence firm,was approached by an identified U.S. person [Simpson] who indicated to Source #1 that a U.S.-based law firm had hired the identified U.S. person to conduct research regarding Candidate #1’s ties to Russia. (The identified U.S. person and Source #1 have a long-standing business relationship.) The identified U.S. person hired Source #1 to conduct this research. The identified U.S. person never advised Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into candidate #1’s ties to Russia.  The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign  

This same footnote was included in not only one FISA application, but it was included in 2 additional applications required to renew the warrant after 90 days.

The corrupt players in this scheme managed to launch a nearly two year investigation by special counsel investigation, led by Robert Mueller. The investigation concluded that it “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”