attorney general said it, it s more misconduct than you are saying, this is the only one. in every other case the attorney general gives them something that they put on at the end of the report. it they went to a couple media events and poster of the report and poster the fbi. so there are two points here. fisa and the misconduct there or. you have mike lee coming up, and ted cruz coming up so maybe some of the questions that we are searching for will come up the there. one last thing before we bring martha martha in here. the steele dossier was paid for by democrats and he said a number of people knew. how high it went was not exactly clear. to martha he now and your observations so far as of 12:30?
according to your report, bruce ohr told the fbi that steals reporting had gone to the clinton campaign, the key investigators knew the dossier was prepared in part to the dnc. it was known by that fbi. how many people in the fbi and doj knew that the steele dossier was political opposition research funded by the democra
unverified and salacious. so why did you that wasn t my recollection. my recollection is it was part of a broader mosaic of facts that were laid before the pfizer judge to obtain a fisa warrant. the ig report, and ken says that the steele dossier was crucial and central to the pfizer report. absolutely. it was the core of the submission and reminded of the old saying frequently wrong but never in doubt. mr. comey has a very bad recollection or he is deliberately ignoring that which now the whole world knows which we have long suspected which is the steele dossier was at the heart and soul of the intrusion and the civil liberties of carter page. by the way, i m so glad that
in june 2018, a year after the last fisa authorization, when the justice department lawyers sent a letter informing them of new information that they had learned including from litigation that mr. steele had acknowledged was a direct contact for yahoo! news in that story. that was a first time the court was told about it. look at footnote 461 for me. that footnote states that a former fbi confidential human source contacted an fbi agent in an fbi field office in late july, 2016, to report information from a colleague who runs an investigative firm hired by two entities, the democratic national committee, as well as another individual who is not named, to its floor, donald strunk trumps long-lasting ties to
democrats. so on the fbi side, there were a number of people who kn knew. it s challenging getting back to the chairman s question, to know what was precisely done at the highest levels of the fbi and when. because of the lack of any direct record of entire briefings but certainly with as much information as we lay out here, at the justice department, much of that information was not known. one of the concerns that we know and information about what mr. or did, mr. orr was passing along the information from mr. steele to the fbi. that information was not given by the fbi to the justice department. so the colleagues were proving and reviewing these fisas did not know that the colleague had passed along information to the