Steele was hired by the research firm Fusion GPS, which had been hired by a law firm representing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It alleged the Russian government had compromising information on then-presidential candidate Trump. The “dossier” is a series of memos compiled by Steele on s upposed contacts between Russian officials and members of the Trump campaign. But now, the inspector general’s report, reiterated that finding. 18, 2018, House Republican intelligence committee memo said it was information about Papadopoulos that sparked the FBI counterintelligence probe in July 2016. John Ratcliffe said earlier this year: “That this was a fake, phony dossier that started all of this, funded by the Democrats.” Jay Sekulow, an attorney for the president, said: “The whole impetus upon which this inquiry engaged, where it came out of, was this dossier, this counterintelligence investigation regarding collusion.”Īnd the chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, also claimed the investigation “was precipitated by this fake dossier paid for by the Hillary Clinton and the DNC.”Įven at the time of those statements, as we’ve written, we knew that a Jan. Other Republicans echoed that talking point in an effort to paint the origins of the investigation as politically motivated. In March 2018, Trump tweeted that the special counsel investigation of whether Trump campaign officials coordinated with Russia’s interference in the 2016 election “ was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC.” But the IG report said it “determined that Steele’s reports played no role in the Crossfire Hurricane opening.” The FBI investigation, the report said, was launched based on information from a “Friendly Foreign Government” about George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, claiming the Russians had damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
Several Republicans, including the president, have claimed that the FBI’s investigation - called Crossfire Hurricane - was “based on,” “started” by or “precipitated by” a dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Steele. A press release on the report said the inspector general “examined more than one million documents that were in the DOJ’s and FBI’s possession and conducted over 170 interviews involving more than 100 witnesses.” Origins of the Investigation Horowitz, examined the origins of the FBI investigation, the bureau’s relationship with former British intelligence office Christopher Steele and four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications for surveillance of Page, among other aspects of the investigation. The report by the DOJ inspector general, Michael E. The report found no “documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation” influenced the opening of the investigation or decision-making during it. The IG report also debunked Trump’s claims that the investigation was motivated by political bias on the part of FBI staff.The IG report didn’t find “intentional misconduct,” but it did find at least 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in court applications for Page’s warrant. Trump has accused the FBI of obtaining a surveillance warrant of former campaign aide Carter Page under false pretenses.But the IG report “found no evidence that the FBI placed any” confidential sources or undercover agents in the Trump campaign or tasked any such sources “to report on the Trump campaign.” Trump repeatedly has accused the FBI of illegally spying on his campaign.But the IG report said that “Steele’s reports played no role in the Crossfire Hurricane opening.” Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have claimed that the FBI’s Russia investigation was sparked by a dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.That report contradicts some of the claims the president, and other Republicans, have made over the years about the investigation, but it also supports at least one assertion. 9, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General released its report on the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump campaign were coordinating with Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
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