Did Christopher Steele give "dossier" to the FBI?

[kentuck]

Or was it the DNC or the Clinton campaign?

In the eyes of the FISA Court, I don't think it matters where they got it. "Political motivations" or "bias" does not cause them to throw out information. They are looking for factual evidence.

However, I seem to recall when I read the Glenn Simpson testimony before the House Committee that he met the FBI in Rome to discuss his findings during his research on Donald Trump? Does it really matter where the FISA Court got their information?

[lindysalsagal]

1. I thought McCain gave it to them?

Did I screw that up?

[underpants]

2. I seem to remember it as that too n/t

[MichMary]

4. McCain gave it to the FBI????

Maybe, but that's not my recollection. I know it originated with one of tRump's primary opponents, but how it got to the FBI? I don't remember.

[kentuck]

5. McCain and GOP dropped it after Trump became nominee and DNC picked it up.

...is my understanding.

[SonofDonald]

3. That's what I've read going back months

McCain was told about it with some type of synopsis then sent one of his aides to Europe to retrieve it, read it and handed it to the FBI.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Prosecutors and investigators use evidence and testimony from career criminals...

ALL THE FUCKING TIME!

We have a witness protection program designed to let criminals off the hook if they roll on their bosses.

The source matters little, if at all, if it is verifiable as true. The idea that FISC would issue a warrant on a single source evidence is ludicrous. Let alone repeat it 3-4 times.

[kentuck]

7. Excellent point!

They probably get most of their information from career criminals.

[shraby]

8. The way I remember it is Steele gave it to the New York FBI and nothing came of it so

it was put into the hands of John McCain and he gave it to the FBI.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Yeah, there was a decided anti-Hillary bias coming out of the Ghouliani wing of FBI...

That's where the "cabal" is, if there is any.

[Blue_Adept]

9. 1/11/17 - John McCain passes dossier alleging secret Trump-Russia contacts to FBI

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-given-dossier-by-john-mccain-alleging-secret-trump-russia-contacts

[kentuck]

11. Thank You!

That would have been in December of 2016!