![]() claimed that the President-elect and his top campaign advisers knowingly worked with Russian officials to bolster his chances of beating Secretary Clinton, were fully knowledgeable of Russia’s direction of leaked Democratic emails and were offered financial compensation from Moscow. ![]() ![]() The most politically sensitive claims by the FBI source alleged a close relationship between the president-elect and the Kremin. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday.Īlthough Steele’s reporting had “only limited corroboration” and was not included in the main body of the ICA, large parts of the dossier was included in the annex to the ICA, which was prepared for and briefed to President Obama and President-Elect President Trump. We have only limited corroboration of the source’s reporting in this case and did not use it to reach the analytic conclusions of the CIA/FBI/NSA assessment.ĭirector of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified the annex on June 9, 2020, and released it to Sens. One page of the annex said of Steele’s dossier (emphasis added):Īn FBI source using both identified and unidentified subsources, volunteered highly politically sensitive information from the summer to the fall of 2016 on Russian influence efforts aimed at the US presidential election. The declassified document was an annex to the Obama administration’s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian interference in the election released in early 2017. The intelligence community and top Obama administration officials knew that Fusion GPS and ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s dossier that alleged collusion between the Trump campaign with Russia was largely uncorroborated by early 2017, according to a declassified document released Thursday.
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