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The new assessment Obama ordered gave credibility to the bullshit fake dossier
The testimony of the people in the room to the Senate Intelligence committee were quoted in their report. From their testimony it's clear that no one believed anything in the Dossier and no one thought anything in it was necessarily true.
The reason Comey pushed for its inclusion as an annex summary was he worried people would accuse the IC of hiding it or denying it. The IC argued about it on the night of December 9. The consensus compromise became that a caveat must be at the top of the page in all caps, unverified, unsourced warning etc.
"The Assistant Director also noted the FBI insisted on including the Steele reporting because "they didn't want to look like they were hiding anything,"
"The Assistant Director and her deputy reviewed the material and sent a copy to Director Brennan and Deputy Director Cohen. According to the Assistant Director, "It was very unvetted information. Some of it made sense. If you look at the theme, the Russians trying to mess with our elections, that theme is certainly accurate. But the details were really—we wouldn't be able to come up with a good analytic confidence in them before the ICA was due." Ultimately, "everybody agreed that it would just be an annex, and then it was agreed there would be a big caveat put on top of the annex, that this is totally unvetted, unverified."
which was then used to deceive a FISA court into allowing surveillance of key Trump people
Not a single one of those warrants makes trump guilty, and not a single one exonerates him.
and was the basis for the special counsel being appointed.
Wow, I guess I'm glad it happened or we never would have found out about it. No, seriously, Mueller answered many questions, even if he didn't answer everything.
That's a first amendment question because Clinton was a private citizen after the election. If anyone wants to direct blame it should also be shared with the media. But that's not the same issue as rewriting history to seek revenge.Trumps administration was essentially scuttled because of it.