Barr assembles 'team' to look into counterintelligence investigation on Trump campaign in 2016, official says By Gregg Re, Jake Gibson | Fox News Attorney General Barr says he will release a redacted version of the Mueller report Barr testifies as Mueller report release approaches; Catherine Herridge reports from Capitol Hill. Attorney General William Barr has assembled a "team" to investigate the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, an administration official briefed on the situation told Fox News on Tuesday. Republicans repeatedly have called for a thorough investigation of the FBI's intelligence practices and the basis of the since-discredited Russian collusion narrative following the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe -- and they now appear to have assurances that a comprehensive review was underway. The FBI's July 2016 counterintelligence investigation was formally opened by anti-Trump former FBI agent Peter Strzok. Ex-FBI counsel Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was romantically involved, revealed during a closed-door congressional interview that the FBI “knew so little” about whether allegations against the Trump campaign were “true or not true” at the time they opened the probe, noting they had just “a paucity of evidence because we are just starting down the path” of vetting the allegations. GOHMERT UNLOADS ON 'SMIRKING' STRZOK, ASKS IF HE LIED TO CONGRESS LIKE HE LIED TO HIS WIFE WHILE CHEATING ON HER Page later said that it was “entirely common” that the FBI would begin a counterintelligence investigation with just a “small amount of evidence.” Former FBI Director James Comey would testify later that when agency initiated its counterintelligence probe into possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government, investigators "didn't know whether we had anything" and that "in fact, when I was fired as director [in May 2017], I still didn't know whether there was anything to it." President Trump greeting then-FBI Director James Comey at the White House on January 22, 2017. (Reuters, File) Barr told lawmakers at a contentious hearing earlier Tuesday that he was reviewing the bureau's “conduct” in particular during the summer of 2016. The attorney general's explosive testimony marked his first Capitol Hill appearance since he revealed the central findings of Mueller’s investigation, and he indicated the full report -- with redactions -- would be made public within the week. Mueller's investigation completed last month without securing the indictment of a single American for collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice, "despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign." “I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016,” Barr said at the hearing. FBI BLAMES SYSTEM-WIDE SOFTWARE FAILURE FOR MISSING STRZOK TEXTS; STRZOK'S MUELLER PHONE TOTALLY WIPED Barr also was questioned about the initial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants approved to surveil members of the Trump campaign, including former Trump aide Carter Page. Republicans have called for a careful review as to whether the FBI, in violation of Page's constitutional rights and FBI procedures, misled the FISA court or withheld exculpatory information, and Barr testified that a DOJ review of the FBI's FISA practices was in progress. The FBI's ultimately successful October 2016 warrant application to surveil Page, which relied in part on information from British ex-spy Christopher Steele – whose anti-Trump views are now well-documented – flatly accused Page of conspiring with Russians. Page has never been charged with any wrongdoing, and he since has sued the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for defamation. President Trump vows to release FISA documents What could we learn from them? Republican strategist Ned Ryun weighs in. The FBI assured the FISA court on numerous occasions -- in the October 2016 warrant application and in subsequent renewals -- that other sources, including a Yahoo News article, independently corroborated Steele's claims, without evidence to back it up. It later emerged that Steele was also the source of the Yahoo News article, written by reporter Michael Isikoff. The FBI also quoted directly from a disputed Washington Post opinion piece to argue that Trump's views on providing lethal arms to Ukraine, and working towards better relations with Russia, was a possible indicator that the campaign had been compromised. The Trump campaign, at the time, supported only providing only defensive arms to Ukrainians, and rejected a single Republican delegate's proposed platform amendment that called for providing lethal arms. Later, the Trump administration changed course and approved lethal arms sales to Ukraine. The FBI did not provide its own independent assessment of whether the Washington Post opinion piece contained accurate information, and did not mention that the Obama administration had the same policy towards arming Ukraine as the one Trump's team supported. The FBI also did not clearly state that Steele worked for a firm hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign. Instead, the FBI only indicated that Steele's dossier was prepared in conjunction with a presidential campaign. TRUMP VOWS TO DECLASSIFY, RELEASE FISA DOCS, RELATED MATERIALS NOW THAT MUELLER PROBE IS OVER Fox News exclusively obtained internal FBI text messages last month showing that just nine days before the FBI applied for the Page FISA warrant, bureau officials were battling with a senior Justice Department official who had "continued concerns" about the "possible bias" of a source pivotal to the application. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Fox News also has been told the Justice Department's Inspector General (IG) was looking separately into whether Comey mishandled classified information by including a variety of sensitive matters in his private memos. A DOJ court filing on Monday night revealed that Comey incorporated into his private documents, among other key details, the name and code name of a confidential human source.
Barr, a top name in legal excellence. I'm sure there will be indictments aplenty. When can we expect them?
Indictments? You want indictments?! Gregory Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, expects to be charged in relation to Ukrainian work with Manafort, his lawyers say By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger 1 hr ago © ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE - In this March 30, 2000, file photo, Gregory Craig, attorney for Elian Gonzalez's father, meets reporters outside his Washington office to discuss the case. The special counsel in the Russia probe has referred investigations into possible unlawful foreign lobbying to federal prosecutors in New York, according to two people familiar with the inquiry. The people said Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, that three Washington insiders, Tony Podesta, Craig and Vin Weber, were suspected of failing to register as foreign agents. (AP Photo/Khue Bui, File) Attorneys for former White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig said Wednesday that he expects to face federal charges in the coming days in relationship to legal work he did for the Ukrainian government in 2012. The expected indictment — which his attorneys called “a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion” — stems from work Craig did with GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in 2012. At the time, Craig was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the law firm he joined after ending his tenure as counsel to President Barack Obama. Manafort, the former campaign chairman to President Trump, pleaded guilty last year to charges related to his Ukraine lobbying. In a statement, attorneys William W. Taylor III and William Murphy said they expect Craig, 74, will be indicted by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington at the request of the Justice Department’s national security division. That could not be independently corroborated. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Craig resigned from Skadden in April 2018 amid a building investigation into whether the firm’s lawyers failed to register as foreign lobbyists for their Ukraine engagement. He would be the first prominent Democratic figure to be charged as a result of a foreign lobbying investigation spun out of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russia interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. His indictment would represent a dramatic turn for a member of the country’s most elite legal circles. Craig attended Yale Law School with Bill and Hillary Clinton and later worked in the Clinton State Department and White House. An early Obama supporter, he served for a year as his first White House counsel. He is also a veteran of the Washington-based law firm Williams and Connolly. Last year, Mueller’s team prosecuted Manafort, who admitted that he had failed to properly register as a foreign lobbyist while working as a political consultant for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, whose 2010 campaign Manafort helped advise. Last month, Manafort was sentenced to a total of 7½ years in prison for lobbying violations and financial crimes. Craig’s firm was hired in 2012 by Yanukovych’s Justice Ministry to conduct a review of the prosecution of one of Yanukovych’s leading political rivals, Yulia Tymoshenko. The agreement included providing advice on improving prosecutions by the ministry, according to court filings. Skadden produced a 187-page white paper that offered a mixed review of the trial and imprisonment of Tymoshenko, claiming the analysis it conducted of the case was independent. But human rights advocates alleged the report had been engineered by Yanukovych’s government and whitewashed the jailing of his political opponent. And Manafort eventually admitted that he and other lobbyists used the Skadden report as part of a broad effort to improve Yanukovych’s reputation in the West, which had suffered after the widely condemned jailing of Tymoshenko. Manafort agreed they failed to disclose their lobbying effort, which included disseminating the Skadden report to U.S. government officials. Craig came under scrutiny in part for contact he had in December 2012 with reporters, particularly at the New York Times, to explain the content of the report. After Skadden was mentioned in news coverage, the Justice Department sought information from the law firm about whether its work, including the media contacts, required the lawyers to have registered as foreign lobbyists. In a letter sent to the Justice Department in October 2013 and obtained by The Washington Post, Craig wrote that his media contacts came in response “to inaccuracies in U.S. news reports” and that he was “in no way serving as an agent for Ukraine.” In response, a Justice Department official sent Craig a letter in January 2014 indicating that the government agency found the firm had “no present obligation to register under FARA.” But subsequently, as prosecutors began scrutinizing the work of Manafort and his associates in Ukraine, they reexamined the role of Craig’s firm, including whether Craig was honest during his interactions with the Justice Department over his registration requirements in 2013. Skadden in January reached a settlement with the Justice Department, admitting it should have registered for its work in 2012 and 2013, and agreed to turn over the $4.6 million in fees it made for the report in exchange for facing no criminal charges. In its settlement, Skadden agreed that DOJ’s 2014 finding that the firm did not need to register came after DOJ relied on “false and misleading oral and written statements” made by Craig. The Ukrainian government reported that Skadden was paid just $12,000 for the report, but prosecutors have said that Manafort used an offshore account to help route more than $4 million to the law firm to pay for the work. Another Skadden lawyer, Alex van der Zwaan, pleaded guilty in 2018 to lying to the FBI about his work on the report, agreeing that he had slipped an early copy to Manafort to assist in his pro-Yanukovych lobby efforts and later deleted emails related to the effort. He served 30 days in prison. Mueller’s office, which prosecuted Manafort, referred Craig’s case last year to prosecutors in Manhattan as Mueller worked to bring his investigation to a close, people familiar with the matter have said. The case was then transferred back to prosecutors in Washington. Separately, prosecutors in New York have been investigating whether FARA rules were violated by two other prominent Washington figures: Tony Podesta, a Democratic lobbyist who once owned one of Washington’s leading firms, and Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman, who helps lead the Washington office of Mercury LLC. Spencer S. Hsu contributed to this report. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...rt-his-lawyers-say/ar-BBVOKHf?ocid=spartanntp
This is pretty hilarious even for MARIS. His big "gotcha" is a former Obama staffer indicted for working with one of Trump's noted-criminal former staffers.
It would be hilarious that you seem to be holding on to the Republicans bad and Democrats good narrative that the media has been pushing for the last few years if it weren't so sad. Notice the name Podesta at the end of the article (along with another Republican) They are ALL dirty and some are getting caught finally because they started this Russian hoax. Let's have investigations into every member of congress and the DOJ
Nobody is claiming that. There are very bad people, on both sides. No, SOME people are dirty. Some aren't. Claiming everyone is a criminal is just a cheap and easy way to excuse criminality. No, some are getting caught because of the investigation into 'this Russian hoax'. barfo
How so? My post didn't say anything about Republicans bad or Democrats good. I said I found it funny that MARIS was like "LOOK INDICTMENTS!" and the relatively minor figure he was pointing to was mixed up with a staffer of his beloved Trump. As a "gotcha," how is that not hilarious?
I don't know, maybe because he's been posting these stories that everyone laughs at and says "wake me up when the indictments start" They weren't even looking into anything any Democrat did and they got one already. These corporate owned government assholes are everywhere on both sides. They are all dirty and the hilarity of two years of people crying about all the dirty Trump associates is going to bite them in the ass. I say this with full affirmation that Trump has probably averaged 30 felonies a year for decades. Maybe 30 a month.
Nope. People like Hillary aren't getting caught because they've been covering their tracks for years. These are the smart criminals. I'm sure there is a small percentage of congress that aren't criminals. I'm sure there are even some lobbyists that aren't. Those outliers are like the few fat people that don't eat too much. They exist but are very rare.
But everyone knows about the pedophilia ring in the pizza parlor basement, and how she killed all those people. How can you say she covered her tracks? EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT A CRIMINAL MASTERMIND SHE IS, AND THE LOCATION OF HER SECRET ISLAND LAIR. Well, I guess the strategy then is to elect the dumbest criminals, like Trump, so that we can catch them? barfo
Did hillary bleachbit the evidence of pizzagate? https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016...t-about-clinton-staff-taking-the-fifth-228728 I am pretty sure I've heard people here say that innocent people don't take the 5th when referring to the Mueller investigation. Hmmmm, weird
I don't know, did she? If only she wasn't so smart, maybe we could catch her! Thank god we didn't elect her, it would be disastrous to have a smart person as president. barfo
Greg Craig, ex-Obama White House counsel, indicted for alleged false statements By Gregg Re | Fox News Greg Craig, former White House counsel for then-President Barack Obama, was indicted Thursday on two counts of making false and misleading statements to investigators -- including Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team -- in connection with his work on behalf of Russia-backed former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Craig is the first prominent Democrat to be indicted in a case arising from Mueller's now-completed probe into Russian election interference. Mueller referred the Craig case to prosecutors in New York last year after uncovering possible wrongdoing while he investigated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's Ukraine lobbying work. The Washington-based lawyer was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for allegedly falsifying and concealing “material facts” and making false statements both to Mueller and to the DOJ National Security Division's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit. The FARA Unit is responsible for enforcing foreign lobbying laws that require the disclosure of certain overseas activity, including public relations work for foreign entities. At issue were Craig’s 2012 lobbying and media contacts on behalf of Yanukovych, while Craig was a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Specifically, Craig and the law firm were commissioned by Yanukovych and Ukraine's government to write a report to assess whether the government's prosecution of dissident Yulia Tymoshenko -- a criminal case that was criticized widely as an abuse of power -- was a "fair trial." The apparent aim of the Skadden report was to provide cover for what critics called an obviously politically motivated prosecution, and Manafort and others used the published document to advance Yanukovych's standing in the international community. But, if Skadden and Craig registered under FARA, Ukraine's payments for the supposedly independent report would be revealed publicly, exposing the report's lack of credibility. In the indictment, prosecutors cited several emails between Craig and the report's co-author, including one April 2012 email in which Craig wrote that a follow-up Skadden report on Yanukovych's then-upcoming second trial would "help make it go better and look better vis a vis the West." Although Ukraine officials said they paid only $12,000 for the report, prosecutors charged that Manafort illegally used an offshore account to ensure Skadden received approximately $4 million for its services. In February 2012, prosecutors said, Craig emailed the co-author of the report, saying, "I don't want to register as a foreign agent under FARA. I think we don't have to with this assignment, yes?" In April that year, Craig emailed, "I don't really care who you ask [about the FARA requirements] but we need an answer from someone who we can rely on with a straight face." On December 15, 2012, after the report's release, a lobbyist wrote to Craig that media coverage on the report was glowing: "You are back in the headlines internationally. ... People in Kiev are very happy. You are 'THE MAN.'" Yanukovych was overthrown in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and has lived in exile in Russia since. Tymoshenko, who was also one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution, was convicted on charges including embezzlement in 2011 but was released in 2014 upon Yanukovych's ouster. In 2013, the DOJ sent Skadden a letter informing Craig that the firm and Craig's work with Ukraine meant they had to register as foreign agents under FARA. Craig resisted those requests, providing false information to Skadden's general counsel, the indictment said. On October 19, 2017, according to the indictment, Craig repeated the lies to Mueller's team -- allegedly providing misleading statements on his contacts with journalists concerning the report. REPORT: PROBE INTO CLINTON-LINKED PODESTA MAY ALSO BE HEATING UP "The purpose of the scheme was for Craig to avoid registration as an agent of Ukraine," the indictment read. "Registration would require disclosure of the fact that Private Ukrainian had paid Craig and the Law Firm more than $4 million ... [and] undermine the Report and Craig's perceived independence; and impair the ability of Craig and others at the Law FIrm to later return to government positions." It was not clear why Mueller -- who prosecuted other Trump officials, including Manafort, Michael Flynn, and George Papadopoulos for making false statements -- did not handle the Craig case himself, and opted instead to farm it out to prosecutors in New York. Alex van der Zwaan, another former Skadden lawyer, pleaded guilty last year to lying to investigators about the report. Craig faces up to 10 years in prison in all -- up to five years and a possible $250,000 fine for allegedly willfully falsifying and concealing material facts from the FARA Unit and another five years and $10,000 fine for making false and misleading statements to the FARA Unit. FARA violations had been prosecuted rarely until Mueller took aim at Manafort for his own lobbying work in Ukraine. Manafort, who counted Yanukovych as one of his most lucrative clients, has been convicted on numerous bank and tax fraud charges and separately was accused of FARA violations as well. Manafort was sentenced earlier this year to approximately seven years in prison. No Americans were indicted for colluding with Russia or obstruction of justice following the completion of Mueller's nearly two-year-long investigation, despite multiple attempts by Russians to involve the Trump campaign in a conspiracy to hack Democrats' emails. Craig left Skadden last year after his work with Manafort became public. Skadden agreed this past January to cooperate with the DOJ's registration requirements and paid $4.6 million in a settlement to avoid criminal prosecution. "We have learned much from this incident and are taking steps to prevent anything similar from happening again,” the firm said in a statement at the time. Craig's attorneys on Wednesday night told The Associated Press in a statement that the "government's stubborn insistence on prosecuting Mr. Craig is a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion." On Thursday, the attorneys, William Taylor and William Murphy, told reporters: "This indictment accuses Mr. Craig of misleading the FARA Unit of the Department of Justice in order to avoid registration. It is itself unfair and misleading. It ignores uncontroverted evidence to the contrary. Mr. Craig had no interest in misleading the FARA Unit because he had not done anything that required his registration. That is what this trial will be all about." The indictment was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, and Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney, Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office. Separately, another Mueller-referred investigation into Clinton-linked Washington insider Tony Podesta related to his overseas lobbying work also reportedly is heating up. Fox News' Mike Emanuel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Manafort is the only one associated with Craig who has been indicted and convicted of a felony. The other is your conjecture.
Judicial Watch Sues State Department over John Kerry’s ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ to Prevent U.S. Withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Deal APRIL 15, 2019 Seeks emails, texts, instant chats between Kerry and State Department officials and/or Kerry meetings with Iranian officials (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records of communications between former Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department officials regarding “the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also known as JCPOA or ‘Iran nuclear deal’) and/or meetings between Kerry and Iranian officials to discuss the JCPOA.” (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:19-cv-00777)). On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which had been negotiated by Kerry in 2015 on behalf of the Obama State Department. In the months preceding the U.S. withdrawal, Kerry reportedly had been on a “stealthy yet aggressive mission” of shadow diplomacy in an attempt to preserve the Iran nuclear deal. Kerry reportedly held meetings and spoke with major players, foreign and domestic, involved in the Iran nuclear agreement who opposed the U.S. withdrawal. The Judicial Watch lawsuit was filed after the State Department failed to respond to a May 7, 2018, FOIA request seeking: All records of communications, including but not limited to emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts), text message or instant chat, between former Secretary of State John Kerry and official of the State Department regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also known as the JCPOA or “Iran nuclear deal”) and/or meetings between Kerry and Iranian officials to discuss the JCPOA. During his personal campaign to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, Kerry is said to have met with Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at the United Nations in New York in late April 2018, their second meeting in two months, to discuss ways of preventing the deal limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program from falling apart. Current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo termed Kerry’s meeting with “the world’s largest state-sponsor of terror” “unseemly and unprecedented” and “beyond inappropriate.” Kerry also met in April 2018 with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, separately had meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron, both in Paris and New York, and spoke on the phone with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. Additionally, Kerry was reported to have quietly lobbied members of Congress, including then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and placed dozens of phone calls just before the U.S. withdrawal. “John Kerry wasn’t elected president, so he should avoid colluding with Iran and other foreign government to undermine U.S. foreign policy,” said Judicial Watch President Fitton. “Our lawsuit is meant to discover not only what Kerry was up to but also to unearth who inside the Deep State Trump ‘resistance’ were coordinating with Kerry’s clandestine efforts to undermine the President Trump’s Iran policy.” In another Iran-related FOIA lawsuit, on May 19, 2017, Judicial Watch filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of the Treasury(No.1:17-cv-00864)) against the State and Treasury Departments regarding the Obama administration’s January 2016 transfer of $400 million in foreign currency to Iran, a cash payment delivered the same weekend five American hostages were released. The Obama administration insisted at the time the cash payment was not ransom for the hostages, but several Republican lawmakers said it was too coincidental to be true. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reportedly said, “Paying Iran behind our backs, incentivizing further kidnappings of Americans while providing funds for terrorism, is as ignorant as it is wrong.” The State Department, just two weeks after an August 4 press conference in which President Barack Obama said the payment was not a “ransom,” confirmed that the U.S. handed over the cash only after Iran released the hostages. The $400 million was the first installment of a $1.7 billion cash settlement the Obama administration paid Iran to resolve an arms deal signed before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which toppled the pro-U.S. regime in Tehran. Few documents were produced to Judicial Watch in this case, and all were fully redacted.
Judicial Watch Sues FBI for Records of Communications and Payments to Anti-Trump Dossier Author Steele APRIL 16, 2019 Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the FBI failed to respond to a September 27, 2018, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00572)). Judicial Watch seeks: All records of communications between any official, employee, or representative of the FBI and Mr. Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer and the owner of the private firm Orbis Business Intelligence. All records related to the proposed, planned, or actual payment of any funds to Mr. Steele and/or Orbis Business Intelligence All records produced in preparation for, during, or pursuant to any meetings or telephonic conversations between any official, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher Steele and/or any employee or representative of Orbis Business Intelligence The time frame for this request is March 9, 2017, to September 27, 2018. Former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr testified to Congress that “at some point during 2017, Chris Steele did speak with somebody from the FBI, but I don’t know who.” This is the latest Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit in an extensive investigation into the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump dossier and its use to obtain FISA warrants in order to spy on the Trump campaign. In a case seeking information between January 1, 2016, and March 8, 2017, Judicial Watch previously released FBI records showing that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” in November 2016 after he disclosed his relationship to the FBI to a third party. The documents show that there were at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016. Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm hired by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, reportedly paid $168,000 in 2016 to Steele’s company, Orbis Business Intelligence. In a related case, Judicial Watch recently released 339 pages of heavily redacted records from the DOJ revealing Bruce Ohr remained in regular contact with Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI. “How and why did the FBI pay Christopher Steele, who was already being funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC through Fusion GPS?” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That we had to sue for this basic information shows the FBI may have something more to hide.”
