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Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday teased the release of evidence showing that the FBI \u201clied their ass off\u201d to Congress regarding the reliability of the Steele dossier, which the bureau used as part of its investigation of the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will tell you next week what I found,\u201d the South Carolina Republican said in an interview on \u201cFox Sunday Futures\u201d with Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere is what I think I\u2019m going to be able to show to the public. Not only did the FBI lie to the court about the reliability about the Steele dossier, they also lied to the Congress. That\u2019s a separate crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,\u00a0released a declassified FBI memo<\/a>\u00a0on July 17 that further undercut the credibility of the dossier, which was written by former British spy Christopher Steele.<\/p>\n According to the memo, a Russia analyst named\u00a0Igor Danchenko<\/a>\u00a0told the FBI in January 2017 that he was the primary source for Steele. Danchenko worked as a contractor for Steele and provided him information in 2016 regarding Donald Trump and members of his campaign.\u00a0(RELATED: Devin Nunes Wants To Investigate Brookings Institutions Role In Spreading The Dossier)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n But Danchenko, a Russian national who lives in the U.S., told the FBI that Steele embellished some of the information that ended up in the dossier. Danchenko also detailed his contacts with six associates who he claimed were sources of the information that he passed to Steele, a former MI6 officer.<\/p>\n Danchenko\u2019s sources didn\u2019t appear to have deep contacts inside the Kremlin, though they are portrayed that way in Steele\u2019s dossier.<\/p>\n