You can read the notes of the interview\u00a0here,<\/p>\n Steele and his partner Christopher Burrows even suggested the FBI deserved some of the blame for the decision to leak to the news media and Sen. John McCain’s office.<\/p>\n “STEELE and BURROWS described the overall situation as being one where it was ‘your [FBI] fault’\u00a0and ‘our fault,'”\u00a0the memo reported, adding that Burrows was also upset the FBI had not paid Steele for his anti-Trump work.<\/p>\n The two British citizens told the FBI that concerns about the impact of a Trump presidency also motivated them.<\/p>\n “STEELE and BURROWS described President TRUMP as their ‘main opponent’\u00a0and indicated that they were fearful about how Trump’s presidency negatively impacted the historical US-US alliance and the US-UK special relationship,”\u00a0the memo stated.<\/p>\n The 26-page report also discussed in detail Steele’s reliance on his primary sub-source, an Eastern-Europe-born academic who had worked at the U.S. liberal think tank the Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n The FBI recently released documents showing that the sub-source had been the focus of an FBI counterintelligence probe back in 2009-11 and that the bureau assessed he had posed a possible national security threat to the U.S. and had Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n The FBI was seeking to obtain a FISA warrant against the man when he fled the U.S., causing the FBI to close down its probe.<\/p>\n The most explosive revelation about the sub-source in the newly declassified documents was that former Trump National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill, an impeachment witness in 2019 against Trump, had introduced Steele to his sub-source in 2011, well after the FBI had opened up its probe on the source.<\/p>\n “The primary sub-source was introduced to STEELE and ORBIS by FIONA HILL in or around 2011,”\u00a0the report stated. “\u2026 Emphasizing the sensitivity, STEELE explained that Hill now worked for the National Security Council. HILL has a very high opinion of the primary sub-source.”<\/p>\n Steele said he later told Hill the sub-source she had introduced to him had contributed to the dossier.<\/p>\n “STEELE said FIONA HILL knows that the primary sub-source was involved in the dossier,”\u00a0the report noted, describing how Steele went to Hill in early 2017 because he became worried about the sub-source’s safety.<\/p>\n ___ First Trump declassified Russia document: Christopher Steele’s 2017 confession to the FBI Steele told FBI he leaked Russia collusion story to help Clinton and Great Britain, and was connected to his primary dossier source by former NSC staffer and impeachment … Continue reading
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