Bombshell: Memo Shows Phony Steele Dossier Was Pretext to Spy On Trump Campaign

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Feb. 02, 2018

Foreign "ex-"intelligence agent Christoper Steele's phony dossier was used as the pretext to spy on members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to the newly released memo from the House Intelligence Committee.

The memo lays out a criminal conspiracy, with Steele telling Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr that he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president."

Ohr's wife at the time was "employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump," the memo states.

"Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC."

From the Washington Examiner:

Here are some key points:

* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.

* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.

* The four FISA surveillance applications were signed by, in various combinations, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein.

* The FBI authorized payments to Steele for work on the dossier. The FBI terminated its agreement with Steele in late October when it learned, by reading an article in Mother Jones, that Steele was talking to the media.

* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.

* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele's bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.

Read the full three page memo in PDF form here.

Trump called the revelations in the memo "a disgrace."

"I think it's a disgrace," he said. "A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves."

💥PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP UNLOADS OVER THE MEMO!! 💥
"I think it's terrible. It's a disgrace what's going on in this country I think it's a disgrace....a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that." #ReleaseTheMemo #NunesMemo pic.twitter.com/if3qyVC1Wh
— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) February 2, 2018

More reactions:

McCabe knew that the FISA warrant was obtained using shady dossier and that all extensions were based on the original application. The Obama administration then used information that Hillary paid for to justify spying on @realDonaldTrump. If I got that right should be game over.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 2, 2018

It would be great if the Media served as a check and balance to both sides rather than being complicit in aiding and abetting one while vilifying the other.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 2, 2018

Notice that this is the one Washington document wasn’t leaked. I guess we know which side is leaking.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 2, 2018

So Obama’s government, the #DNC, and members of the #MSM all conspired to fix a presidential election by deceiving a secret court allowed to spy on American citizens? Russians couldn’t have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than #Democrats have.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 2, 2018

No wonder CNN spent every minute of every day this entire week trying to downplay the FISA memo. This entire Russian Agent witch hunt was started using the Hillary Clinton funded, fake news Steele dossier, and Deep State FBI actors were in on it the whole time. #MemoDay
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) February 2, 2018

Memo: No FISA warrant without Dossier. Which means no Russia collusion story without Dossier. Which means no Mueller special counsel without Dossier paid for by Clinton/DNC. Shut it down.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) February 2, 2018

Here's the question I posted to Twitter:

Does a British spy making a fake dossier which was used to get a fisa warrant on American citizens count as Great Britain interfering in our election? #MemoDay #FISAMemo #SteeleDossier pic.twitter.com/V3GuANaADL
— Chris Menahan 🔹 (@infolibnews) February 2, 2018

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