he was a less than reliable source for the fbi. three points to make. christopher steele wasn't terminated by the fbi, he was never employed by the never. and it was steele who cut ties, not the other way around. in august 2017, the fusion gps founder, who hired steele, testified, i understand chris severed his relationship with the fbi out of concern that he didn't know what was happening inside the fbi and there was a concern that the fbi was being manipulated for political ends by the trump people and we didn't understand what was doing on. two, steele did conduct a skype briefing with david corn, which according to a may 2017 court filing in london from a defamation filing was at fusion gps's request. and while it showed steele shared no documents with mother jones, it did disclose the limited intelligence regarding indications of russian interference in the u.s.