christopher steele as a source in 2016 because of reliability and credibility, because he was going out and talking to media organizations, that s significant. when the fbi looks at sources every once in a while we ve got to validate that they and the opinion of the case agent are being truthful. and so, they closed him because they felt they had credibility issues. so, that s a problem if they then turned around and used this information in a fisa search application or fisa wire tap application and never volunteered anything to the judge, but there s another aspect of that. i worked hundreds of counter intelligence cases over 30 years, this is very important. it s totally abnormal and unusual, they would then turn around and have the source briefed and debriefed by an official of the department of justice. those people are supposed to make sure there are balance in these kinds of things.
and it is clear plenty of people who work and continue to work forker loiblgder and are not being held accountable knew they were gun walking and knew they were continuing gun walking. he claims details in wire tap application. he had to combine with the subpoena to see the wiretaps himself. chairman ice sssa is extorting facts. the applications prove the criminal division or any one in the department of justice approve these tactics remain as inaccurate as they were when they were first made over a year ago. as explained to the committee these applications are written to illustrate the basis for need for electronic surveillance. these applications do not provide complete description of all law enforcement tactics taken during the course of an investigation or the overall operational strategies. we are going to hear from