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The Steele dossier contains dozens of raw intelligence allegations; available reporting shows some individual pieces have partial corroboration (for example, that Carter Page met with a Rosneft repres...
Crossfire Hurricane was the FBI’s counterintelligence probe opened July 31, 2016, to examine whether people associated with Donald Trump’s campaign were coordinating with Russia’s efforts to interfere...
The Steele dossier is a collection of opposition-research memoranda compiled in 2016 by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele that alleges a network of contacts, financial ties, and possible compromis...
The Obama Justice Department did use secret investigative tools—warrants, subpoenas and seizures—to obtain reporters’ records and to investigate leaks, and court documents show at least one reporter (...
The Steele dossier contains a mix: portions that line up with established facts about Russian operations and contacts have been described as broadly consistent by some analysts, while many of its more...
is a 2016 collection of memos by alleging ties and kompromat between and ; it was paid for by while working for Democratic clients and published by in January 2017 as unverified “raw intelligence” . T...
Multiple post‑2016 government reviews and declassifications found that the Steele dossier contained unverified and, in some parts, unsubstantiated material and that the FBI relied on it in seeking FIS...
The Steele dossier is a 35‑page set of reports compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, containing unverified allegations of links between Donald Trump’s campaign an...
Available reporting shows the Steele dossier was used by the FBI in FISA applications targeting Carter Page, but authorities and watchdogs disagree on how central or properly disclosed it was: the DOJ...
Christopher Steele is a former British MI6 officer who, working through his firm Orbis Business Intelligence and hired by Fusion GPS, compiled a 35‑page set of intelligence memos in 2016 alleging cont...
Yes: multiple and associates had direct meetings, calls, emails, or other contacts with nationals and Russian government-linked figures during the 2016 campaign, including a documented June 9, 2016, m...
The Mueller investigation and subsequent public records corroborated only fragments of —chiefly the dossier’s broad premise that sought to help and that numerous contacts occurred between people tied ...
Public records and later indictments corroborated fragments of the dossier—principally that ran cyber-operations in 2016 and that some figures had contacts with Russian-linked actors—but they did not ...
The FBI opened a counterintelligence probe into in 2016 that used as one of many investigative leads, attempted to corroborate the dossier’s claims, and cited portions of it in surveillance applicatio...
Official reviews by and the concluded that the was a mixture of unverified raw intelligence, some limited corroboration, and demonstrably false claims, and that ’s use of dossier material in contained...
There is substantial reporting of foreign contacts, alleged unregistered foreign influence by associates, and troubling operational decisions that have weakened institutions — but the claim that Donal...
The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (IG) concluded in December 2019 that FBI use of the Steele dossier in FISA applications contained serious errors and omissions — including 17 ...
Within days of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report finding widespread errors and omissions in FBI FISA applications, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) issued a series of...
The Justice Department Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, found that the FBI had a proper legal and factual basis to open the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence inquiry in 2016 and that the pro...
The FBI opened a counterintelligence probe into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election in mid‑2016—known internally as "Crossfire Hurricane"—after detecting foreign-targeted cyber intrusi...