by John Solomon
An FBI spreadsheet that evaluated the credibility of Christopher Steele’s dossier found almost no corroborating evidence from official intelligence reporting, leaving analysts to scramble to find flimsy sources like a Democratic operative, a Russian propaganda news site and U.S. news media story leaks that amounted to circular reporting.
“There is no confirmation that Trump stayed here. There is no ‘Presidential Suite’ currently listed,” FBI analysts wrote in one entry that tried to evaluated one of Steele’s most lurid claims – later debunked — that Trump was videotaped committing lewd sex acts with prostitutes at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Moscow.
The 94-page document was obtained Monday by Just the News in a mostly declassified state, with some redactions. You can read it here.
Another entry summarized much of the FBI’s assessment of Steele reporting: it seemed based on Internet rumors that could never be corroborated.
“Other than open source speculation, the only reporting that mentions this is the Steele Reporting from 5 July 2016 and 2 August 2016,” the analysts wrote about a claim in the dossier that the Russian spy agency known as the FSB had a “pervasive and sophisticated” operation focused on Trump.
Other entries dinged the Steele dossier for sloppiness like misspellings of key names, or for making claims that were debunked by official travel records like passport entry records.
“There doesn’t appear to be any record of Trump visiting Baku or the presidential palace,” one entry read, knowing down a claim the future president visited the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.
Added another: “There is no record of Trump personally organizing a Congressional Delegation (CODEL) visit to Baku.”
Similarly one of the most famous claims of the now discredited dossier – that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen flew to Prague in summer 2016 to help cover up a Russia-Trump plot – was debunked by analysts.
“The CROSSFIRE HURRICANE team has been unable to verify travel by Cohen to the Czech Republic in August 2016,” analysts wrote.
With little formal intelligence reporting to back anything Steele had offered he FBI, analysts offered turned to suspect sources, such as biased actors connected to the Democratic National Committee or leaked news media stories that could be traced back to Steele and his boss, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.
Every day more documents appear that show there was no Russian collusion and that the Obama KLAN used government personnel to affect a federal election.
obama/biden are guilty of treason and sedition.