what the director told the senator in private and justice department documents by the bureau s relationship with a foreign british intelligence officer christopher steel. he was the one behind the anti-trump dossier published in january by buzz feed and the senator wants to know about two specific meetings agents had with steel in july and october of last year and whether the bureau paid him $50,000 for doing continuing research on the russia case and that the firm had ties to russia and also had been hired to do opposition research for a clinton-aligned election group. bill: what about his deputy, andrew mccabe? he has come under fire as well. on what grounds? look, one of the central issues for republicans and democrats is whether the f.b.i. has remained a neutral party throughout the 2016 election cycle and one of the principal
material inconsistencies between the description of the fbi s relationship with mr. steele that you did provide in your breathing and information contained in justice department documents made available to the committee only after the briefing. some democrats say the allegations in the trump dossier have a lot of merits be of the raking democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff ran them into the record during the march 20 of russia hearing where comey testified along with the nsa director. is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated and nothing more than an entirely unhappy coincidence? yes. it is possible, but since it is possible, may be more than possible that they are not coincidental, not disconnected and not unrelated. in a new seven-page declaration, steele told the british courts that large sections of the dossier were unverified and said they were never meant to be public in any
came as big surprise here, certainly in the last couple of days before the president leaves office. chelsea manning serving 35-year sentence, served about 6 1/2 years of that sentence for leaking about 750,000 defense and statement department documents. in the last few months she s been subject of tremendous outpouring from the human rights community who argued she was suffering in this military prison because she s been struggling with gender identity issues. as result of this human rights groups from around the world collected signatures trying to get president obama to grant clemency to her. that s exactly what he did. done over the objections of the pentagon and other people inside the government including the national security officials who felt this went too fafrmt and
i would refer you to the justice department. you guys are equating the subpoena with prosecution and i think that it is again, i would defer you to what the attorney general said. it is a technical accuracy you are holding on to. based on what i saw in published reports and what the attorney general said i don t see the conflict. sean: he didn t see the conflict the last time the attorney general was caught lying either. this is back in 2011. when did you first know about the row gram officially i believe called fast and furious to the best of your knowledge what date? i m not sure of the exact date but i probably heard about it for the first time over the last few weeks. sean: that, too, was later discovered to have been a lie. why? because justice department
classified information based on documents obtained under the freedom information act by judicial watch, a group that sued to try to force the release of the usama bin laden death photos. what it got was more than 250 pages of cia and defense department documents but not the pictures. documents indicate two film-makers got interviews with senior administration officials including some here at the white house, a tour of the cia s model of bin laden s compound and of a building so secret its name was redacted in the documents. a meeting with a navy seal who participated in the bin laden mission. reporters are sometimes given off the record information but press secretary jay carney said last august when these claims were first made no classified information was revealed to the film-makers. we do our best to accommodate them to make sure the facts are correct that is hardly a novel approach to the media. we do not discuss classified information. reporter: actually the documents repeate