If Carter Paige was a CIA asset why would they need to surveil him.
They lied to and were admonished by the FISA Court for presenting false information on the application. In the FISA application the FBI said that Carter Paige was not a CIA asset. In working for the CIA Carter Paige would also have been the subject of a security clearance. Doing so would have nothing to do with spying on Carter Paige. It would have been justified to check his background. He did so while admitting later “That said, we are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting to include it in the body of the report.”įishWings, Trumps position would require a security clearance. So Comey worked to preserve the public narrative in support of the Steele dossier, which was being widely disseminated and fueled what was later found to be an unsupported conspiracy theory. Perhaps it is a nit, but I worry that it may not be best to say ‘the IC has not made any judgment that the information in the document is reliable.’ I say that because we HAVE concluded that the source is reliable and has a track record with us of reporting reliable information we have some visibility into his source network, some of which we have determined to be sub-sources in a position to report on such things and much of what he reports in the current document is consistent with and corroborative of other reporting included in the body of the main IC report.” “I just had a chance to review the proposed talking points on this for today. He was opposed to a public statement declaring that the Steele dossier was only mentioned in an appendix to the intel community’s report because the “IC has not made any judgment that the information in the document is reliable.” Comey insisted her was reliable: Steele had also been reportedly terminated by the FBI as a source because of his efforts to plant stories in the media.Ĭomey mentioned none of this and instead cautioned Clapper against a statement saying that there was no judgment on the reliability of the Steele dossier. It had also been warned that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was trying to plant a false Russian collusion story in the media.( The Clinton campaign and its attorney Marc Elias had reportedly denied that the campaign funded the dossier until after the election) It was also told that Steele’s primary source was a suspected Russian agent and that is network was compromised by Russian intelligence. The CIA had already told the FBI that Page was a U.S. While Comey later insisted that he was unaware of basic information, he was signing applications for secret surveillance and advising Clapper without either confirming or disclosing information. Comey has testified that he would not have approved such surveillance if he knew then what he knew now about the Steele dossier.Ĭomey signed a statement to the secret court that the information was “verified” on the same day that he admitted to Clapper that “We are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting.” Yet, he also did not tell Clapper what the FBI had already knew about Steele and Carter Page. 12, 2017 email to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper falsely claims that Christopher Steele was found to be “reliable” but then states that the FBI could not “sufficiently corroborate the reporting.” The email went out the same day that Comey signed a FISA surveillance warrant application declaring that content from Christopher Steele’s dossier had been “verified.” We are still waiting for the results of the John Durham investigation but this email raised additional questions about Comey’s role. Justthenews has released a previously undisclosed email from former FBI Director James Comey that raises additional questions about his role in using the now discredited Steele dossier as part of the FBI Russian investigation. There is a new and intriguing document related to the Russian investigation out this week.
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