7/25/2023 0 Comments Dossier testimonySo it was a close call by those that looked at it or had a discussion about it and maybe some that felt it was sufficient without it?” Question: "And those that didn't, it was still a close call." But without it there are those that felt it did meet a probable cause standard?" "With it, I don't think it's a close call. With it, I think that clearly meets the probable cause standard," Moyer testified. ![]() Moyer went on to say that some officials felt the surveillance-warrant application was strong and sufficient without the dossier. The witness transcripts are not public and remain under review by the FBI and Justice Department. Moyer spoke to investigators with the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, in a closed-door transcribed interview last fall, when Republicans held the House. ![]() Moyer was responding to a series of questions about the opposition research by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who worked for Fusion GPS, and how the unverified and salacious dossier was used to secure the warrant for campaign aide Carter Page in October 2016 - less than one month before the presidential election. To listen to the interview in its entirety, click on the audio player above.The October testimony from senior FBI lawyer Sally Moyer to House investigators appers to underscore how critical the dossier - funded by the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign - was in obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant, and appears to conflict with Democratic assertions that the dossier played a limited role in the process.Īsked whether the FBI would have been able to establish probable cause if the application “did not have the Christopher Steele information in it,” Moyer responded: "So I think it's a close call, like 50/50, 51/49. “Everything is now on Mueller,” she said. Kayyem found the FBI’s confirmation of Steele’s suspicions to be “scary,” making the parts of his dossier about Russian blackmail more believable and likely. “The biggest takeaway from the testimony is, of course, the FBI statement that we’ve got other stuff," said national security expert Juliette Kayyem said during an interview with Boston Public Radio Wednesday. "We are already on this, and the Steele dossier just actually compliments some of their investigation work.” In the testimony, Simpson states that Christopher Steele, the investigator behind the dossier, was brought in to be questioned by the FBI and was told the information he obtained was credible “because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization.” Simpson’s testimony confirms a New York Times report that the FBI began investigating the Trump campaign’s connection to Russia after Trump aide George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that the Russian’s had dirt on Hillary Clinton, and not after the release of the damaging dossier. ![]() The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.” ![]() Dianne Feinstein yesterday released the transcript of the Judiciary Committee's interview with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, the company that created the now infamous Steele dossier, to the dismay of her Republican colleagues.įeinstein, the top-ranking Democrat of the Judiciary Committee, released a statement yesterday saying, “The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice.
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