Gowdy: How did Chris Steele’s information reach the FBI? Page and another Trump campaign worker, George Papadopoulos.) (Though not mentioned Friday, the FBI also paid an informant that summer to spy on Mr. “Who paid and the particulars of who paid would be important to people working the case, but the level of specificity that the director needed to know is, to my mind, a different question,” the former FBI director testified. Comey depicted the investigate in 2016 as not into the Trump campaign but into “four Americans.” Gowdy: While you were the director, you never knew that the DNC hired a law firm that hired an oppo research firm that hired Christopher Steele? Comey said, “I never learned that.”Īsked when did he learn that the DNC had hired Perkins Coie, he said, “I never learned that while I was director.” Steele.Īsked when did he learn that Fusion GPS was hired by Perkins Coie, Mr. Steele’s charges were corroborated by a Yahoo News story that in fact had been sourced by Mr. Their application to a federal judge said Mr. Agents used the dossier as their key piece of evidence. This was a key time frame because the FBI decided to seek a wiretap on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page that October. Comey said he was first briefed on the material in September/October 2016 and heard that it had come in some way from Democrats. Comey said, “I don’t know that I ever knew that I think I’ve read that in open source, but I didn’t know that while I was FBI.” “I never met him, never spoken to the man.”Īsked when did he learn that Mr. Gowdy asked at one point, according to a transcript of the testimony. “How long did have a relationship with the FBI?” Mr. Whether parts of the dossier were ever corroborated.That the DNC, through Perkins Coie, funded Mr.Ohr’s wife worked at Fusion GPS as a Russia expert investigating Mr. Steele continued to pump anti-Trump information to the FBI via Bruce Ohr, an associate deputy attorney general. That the FBI fired him for leaking to the news media against its guidelines. How his information exactly reached the FBI.Comey testified that many dossier details were handled by agents, not him.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |