about feinstein s actions, saying, quote, it undermines the integrity of the committee s oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollections of future witnesses. fusion gps hired steele, this veteran investigator, to look into donald trump s background during the 2016 campaign. according to the committee testimony, christopher steele approached the fbi in the summer of 2016 because he was extremely troubled by his findings and, quote, said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government, in our government, about this information. he thought from his perspective there was an issue, a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. when steele finally did make contact with the fbi a few months later, it turned out he was not the first person to do so.
integrity of the committee s oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollections of future witnesses. fusion gps hired steele, this veteran investigator, to look into donald trump s background during the 2016 campaign. according to the committee testimony, christopher steele approached the fbi in the summer of 2016 because he was extremely troubled by his findings and, quote, said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government, in our government, about this information. he thought from his perspective there was an issue, a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. when steele finally did make contact with the fbi a few months later, it turned out he was not the first person to do so. according to this testimony
oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollections of future witnesses. fusion gps hired steele, this veteran investigator, to look into donald trump s background during the 2016 campaign. according to the committee testimony, christopher steele approached the fbi in the summer of 2016 because he was extremely troubled by his findings and, quote, said he was very concerned about whether this represented a national security threat and he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government, in our government, about this information. he thought from his perspective there was an issue, a security issue about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. when steele finally did make contact with the fbi a few months later, it turned out he was not the first person to do so. according to this testimony again, quote, they believed