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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
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...
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...
The Steele dossier was a 2016 series of memoranda by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele alleging a range of contacts, coordination and compromising material linking Donald Trump, his campaign and R...
The Steele dossier played a limited but contested role in the broader Russia investigations: investigators treated it as raw, unverified intelligence that prompted vetting and some follow-up, yet Spec...
The role of Christopher Steele’s dossier in the FBI’s Carter Page FISA applications is disputed in official reports and political statements: the DOJ Inspector General found the dossier “played a cent...
President Trump ordered declassification actions related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe both in 2018 and in the closing hours of his presidency on January 19, 2021, when he “ordered the declas...
The Justice Department Inspector General (OIG) concluded Crossfire Hurricane was opened for an authorized purpose with adequate factual predication, but the FBI made serious procedural errors in seeki...