Smoking gun: Comey told Clapper FBI unable to ‘sufficiently corroborate’ Steele — then signed FISA

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John Solomon

The very day in January 2017 that then-FBI Director James Comey signed a FISA surveillance warrant application declaring content from Christopher Steele’s dossier had been “verified,” he wrote President Obama’s outgoing intelligence community chief with a very different assessment of the British spy’s intelligence on Russia collusion, a newly released memo shows.

“We are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting,” Comey wrote in a Jan. 12, 2017 email to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that was declassified and made public through an open records lawsuit by the Southeastern Legal Foundation.

The memo recounts an internal debate inside the U.S. intelligence community during one of the most delicate moments in the FBI’s then six-month old Crossfire Hurricane probe.

CIA officials had already informed Comey’s FBI that the target of the FISA warrant, Carter Page, wasn’t a Russian spy but rather an asset helping U.S. intelligence. The bureau had received warnings about Steele and the reliability of his source network, including that it might have been compromised by Russian disinformation. Agents had also just recommended on Jan. 4, 2017 shutting down the probe’s inquiry into incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lack of evidence.

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Barr and Durham both knew this and he’s still walking free. Further proof we are just another banana republic.

@another vet: Well, we meet all the requirements, voter fraud, lying intel organizations, puppet leaders, raping the middle class, sleeping justice system, military protection of central government to allow raping of the country and to enrich themselves. Fits the model of Banana Republic!

Not the only justice denied, theres the victims of Epstein.We have known pedophiles that had A NY residence a Ranch and an island just to rape children and nothing being done.

@another vet: OUCH!

Its a big time against America and its people the Globalists and Deep State plans against us all it all leads to the United Nations and Globalists

@another vet: @Randy C Fritz: Yup. Just another banana republic now…with our first Dictator, to boot!

@Randy C Fritz: @Jarhead: @Nathan Blue:

Didn’t we risk our lives to help get rid of this crap in Iraq? Who would have thought back then that the same type of people who sent us over there would establish the same crap over here?

@another vet: Actually, there are more terrorists here than in Iraq. Talked to our Iraqi friends and they are appalled.

@Randy: Jobama will change that once it (remember, no gender pronouns for dems since they oppose them) lets ISIS reconstitute.

Then Comey added the line that undercut his argument: “That said, we are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting to include it in the body of the report.”

In other words, “I remember one time when this guy told the truth, but this smells like bullshit. But, what the hell? We gotta destroy Trump.”