FOX News: Dispute erupts over whether Brennan, Comey pushed Steele dossier, as DOJ probe into misconduct begins
A high-level dispute over which senior government officials pushed the unverified Steele dossier amid efforts to surveil the Trump campaign has broken out into the open again, after it emerged that Attorney General William Barr appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if the FBI and DOJ's actions were "lawful and appropriate."
Sources familiar with the records told Fox News that a late-2016 email chain indicated then-FBI Director James Comey told bureau subordinates that then-CIA Director John Brennan insisted the dossier be included in the intelligence community assessment on Russian interference, known as the ICA.
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Update: FBI-CIA Dispute Erupts Over Whether Comey Or Brennan Pushed Steele Dossier (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: My gut tells me that it is former CIA Director John Brennan who pushed the dossier. Former FBI Director Comey never struck me as someone who thought strategically or was as vested politically as the former CIA Director was with the Obama administration, its legacy, and a continuation of that legacy into a Clinton administration. One other piece of information that makes me believe that it is the former CIA Director who pushed this dossier comes from former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos. He strongly believes that it was the CIA and not the FBI who tried to use and manipulate him to implicate the Trump campaign with Russia .... Papadopoulos: Informant Who Tried To "Seduce" Me During 2016 Campaign Was CIA Not FBI (RCP). My prediction .... the Department of Justice is now conducting a probe and investigation on what led to the decisions to issue a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. I have confidence that they will get their answers to all of these questions sooner rather than later.
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Doubling down after HRC lost was a mistake. These two accused Trump of being a Russian spy.
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