Episode #5_A Summary
The FBI and Department of Justice relied on Christopher Steele's dossier of dirt on the Trump campaign to get a FISA warrant to spy on the campaign. But the critical information in the dossier was never corroborated in any way by Steele, his sources, the FBI or the Department of Justice. The dossier was multiple levels of hearsay yet it was used to obtain multiple search warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Who Paid for the Dossier?
Investigators for the House Intelligence Committee spent months trying to figure out who paid for the Steele dossier. The document was a political dirty trick. So, the transaction was designed to be hard to trace. In the end, it took a court case to get to the truth. Here's what was revealed:
- The Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid Perkins Coie, a Washington law firm to do opposition research on Team Trump.
- Perkins Coie hired a Fusion GPS, a research firm headed by Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter.
- Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy.
√ See link below to Washington Post story published October 24, 2017
More Information_Inspector General's Report
Inspector General's Report
One of the most important resources to understanding "Spygate" is a report by the Department of Justice Inspector General. It was issued in December, 2019. SpyGate Truth repeatedly refers to it, citing page numbers for the source information we report. You can look for yourself. Here's a link to the full report. Be advised, however, it's 474 pages long and does not read like a spy novel.