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Newly-declassified documents show then-FBI Director James Comey purposefully lied about the Steele Dossier. He wrote an email to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper saying the dossier couldn t be sufficiently corroborate[d]. Despite the lack of corroboration, Comey still signed the FISA warrant that resulted in the surveillance of Carter Page.
Below is Comey s Jan. 12, 2017 email (emphasis mine):
Jim:
just had a chance to review the proposed talking points on this for today. 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 [dossier] is reliable. I say that because